Ida Lucille (Ruigh) ZICKEFOOSE

RUIGH, ZICKEFOOSE, WAAGE, MUHLENBRUCH, KEMP, FITCH, DORSKY, THOMPSON, SALTER, KIMBROUGH, HIRSCHEY, REVELS

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 8/12/2015 at 14:58:06

May 28, 1920 -- January 26, 2015

AVON, Conn -- Ida (Ruigh) Zickefoose of Avon, Connecticut, and formerly Severna Park, Maryland, and Richmond, Virginia, died Monday, Jan. 26, 2015, at Cherry Brook Health Care Center. She was 94.

Ida was born in Meservey, Iowa, to the late K. Clarence and Frieda (Waage) Ruigh. She was valedictorian of her high school class and, after attending Iowa State Teachers College, returned to Meservey to teach all grade levels in a one-room school. She married Charles Dale Zickefoose in 1939 and together they had six children.

Besides her sister Melba Muhlenbruch of Hampton, Iowa, she is survived by her children Barbara Kemp of Harvard, Massachusetts; Bob and his wife Bonnie of Mt. Solon, Virginia; Nancy and her husband Larry Fitch of St. Michaels, Maryland; Micky and her husband David Dorsky of Avon, Connecticut; and Julie and her husband Bill Thompson III of Whipple, Ohio, as well as grandchildren Eric Kemp, Karen Kemp Salter, Ashley Zickefoose, Aaron Zickefoose, Holly Zickefoose, Kate Zickefoose Kimbrough, Courtney Fitch Hirschey, Christy Fitch Revels, Claire Fitch, Evan Dorsky, Phoebe Thompson, and Liam Thompson, and 11 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband Dale, and son Donnie, and brothers Don and Rob.

Ida will be remembered not only for her skills as a bridge player, pie baker, and homemaker, but for her intelligence, wit, indomitable courage, and kindness to her friends and neighbors. The family wishes to thank the many caregivers at River Ridge, Arden Courts, and Cherry Brook who looked out for Ida, and the Westhampton United Methodist Church community in Richmond for their expressions of love and concern. Interment will be in Thornton, Iowa, beside her husband and son.

Mason City Globe Gazette -- Mason City, Iowa
January 29, 2015