Evelyn RUDY

RUDY, SHAFFTER, HECKART

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 10/25/2014 at 13:53:29

August 17, 1902 --- June 20, 1943

Miss Evelyn Rudy, 39, a teacher in the Sioux City public schools for the last fourteen years, and a former teacher in the Goldfield schools, died Sunday, June 20, at her home in Sioux City, following a stroke of apoplexy which she suffered Saturday.

Miss Rudy and her mother, former residents of Eagle Grove, moved to Sioux City about fourteen years ago, and she has taught in the public schools there since that time. Miss Rudy had been in poor health for the past three years.

Short funeral services were held in Sioux City, after which the body was brought to the Wilson Funeral Chapel in Eagle Grove, where services were held Wednesday afternoon, June 23. The Rev. John T. Haupt, pastor of the Goldfield United Presbyterian church, had charge of the services in Eagle Grove, with Mrs. Fannie Cotton and Mrs. Vina Hall, accompanied by Mrs. Kate Martin, furnishing the music. Pallbearers were L. E. Beer, Russell Blue, P. B. Hoveland, Wm. Robinson, George Schauner and Harry Schoonover. Burial was made in the Rose Hill cemetery at Eagle Grove. A number of friends of the deceased from Goldfield were present for the funeral services.

Evelyn Rudy, the daughter of James and Jessie Rudy, was born at Eagle Grove, Iowa, on August 17, 1902. There she spent her girlhood days and graduated from the Eagle Grove high school. Later, she attended Drake University in Des Moines, the State Teacher's college at Cedar Falls, and Trinity college and Morningside College at Sioux City. She received her A.B. degree with honors at the Nebraska State Teacher's College in Wayne.

Miss Rudy was deeply interested and talented in music, and shared her talents with those in the community where she lived and in the schools where she taught. While in Sioux City, she directed the Greek choir for the past eleven years, and was a soloist in "The Messiah," oratorio presented annually by the Webster county choral union. Miss Rudy was a member of the Presbyterian church in Sioux City, and her unassuming Christian character and charming personality won many endearing friends for her.

Mourning her untimely departure are her mother, Mrs. Jessie Rudy of Sioux City, her aunt, Mrs. Hattie Shaffter and two cousins, Misses Dorothy and Camilla Shaffter, of Poughkeepsie, New York. She was preceded in death by her father, James Rudy, who passed away many years ago.

Goldfield Gazette -- Eagle Grove, Iowa
July 1, 1943

Source - Paul Wilde
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[daughter of James and Jessie (Heckart) Rudy]