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[Ray, Floy Mae “Floss” Rusco Older]
Bedford Times-Press
Thursday June 24,
1948 [p.
1]
Creston Woman Buried
At Athelstan
Mrs.
Floy Ray of Creston, who was
injured in an automobile accident near Platteville on May 29, died Friday at
the Municipal Hospital in Clarinda, where she was taken immediately following the
accident.
The
funeral services were held in Athelstan Monday afternoon and burial was made
there.
[Ray, Floy Mae “Floss” Rusco Older]
Bedford Times-Press
Thursday July 1,
1948 p. 8
Obituary – Mrs.
Floy Ray
Floy
[Mae] Rusco, daughter of Charles
and Mary Rusco, was born in
Jefferson Township, Taylor County, Iowa, August 29, 1895, and died June 18,
1948, at the age of 52 years, 9 months and 20 days.
She
was married to Jay Older in
1910. To them one child was born Kenneth Older of Honolulu, Hawaii. Her father, mother, two
sisters and four brothers preceded her in death.
In
March 1925 she married Forrest Ray of Lenox.
She
leaves her son, two grandchildren, two sisters and three brothers.
The
funeral services were held at the Community church in Athelstan, Monday, June
21, conducted by Rev. Lawrence Day of Maryville. Burial was in the Athelstan
cemetery.
Attend Ray Funeral
Those
from a distance attending the funeral services for Mrs. Floy Ray Monday were Royal Rusco and family of Lenox; Bessie Rusco and children, Mr. and Mrs. Ansel Freemyer,
Elmer Freemyer of Conway; Mr.
and Mrs. Arthur Freemyer, Leonard Rusco and family, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Wilson of Hopkins; Mrs. Frank McCall, Mr. and Mrs. J.
R. Freemyer of Bedford.
[Rockafellow, Joyce
Scott Weaver]
Bedford Times-Press
Wednesday April 7,
1999 p. 5
Joyce Scott
Rockafellow
Joyce
Scott Rockafellow was born March
6, 1917 in Athelstan, IA and departed this life March 23,1999 in Clearfield, IA
at the Clearview Nursing Home.
She
was the daughter of Harley and Chloe (Lantz) Scott. She attended Athelstan school for 12 years. On
June 7, 1933 she was united in marriage to Raymond Weaver. To this union four children were born: Mabel
Fem, Donald Dean, Laverna Joyce and Mary Ann also in the family
were three stepchildren: Marie, Duane and Thelma.
After
moving to Iowa City, she worked at the University of Iowa Hospital and later
earned her licensed practical nursing degree. Continuing with her nursing
career she moved and worked in Des Moines at General Hospital for over 20
years. Due to her age and failing health she retired from the nursing
profession.
During
her lifetime she enjoyed bowling on leagues, dancing, cooking (especially her
divinity), quilting and traveling. She enjoyed entering many of her quilts and
baked goods at the Iowa State Fair where she received many ribbons and prizes.
Preceding
her in death were her parents, her husband, Lowell, two brothers, Howard and Herschel Scott; two sisters, Genese Branson and Berneice Graham; two sisters in law, Mildred and Lela Scott; two brothers in law, Clyde Branson and Kenneth Graham; one grandchild, Lizzie Weidler.
Joyce is survived by her children and families: Marie
Campbell and Paul of Blockton, IA; Duane Weaver and Virginia of Sharpsburg, IA; Thelma Johnson of Blair, NE; Fern Leight and Don of West Point, IA; Donald Weaver and Mary of Blockton, IA; Joyce Weidler and Delbert of Iowa
City, IA; and Mary Hildreth of
Des Moines, IA; 18 grandchildren; numerous great and great great grandchildren;
many nieces and nephews.
Joyce held a high regard for her duty and
responsibility in her work and in her life. She will be greatly missed by all
who knew and loved her.
[Rusco, Anna McCann]
Bedford Times-Press
Thursday July 27, 1972 p. 2
Anna Rusco, 81 Rites July 20 In Athelstan
Funeral
services for Anna Rusco, 81,
of Athelstan, held July 20 at the Athelstan Community Church, were conducted by
Rev. G. W. Swan. Mrs. Rusco died July 16, 1972 in Bedford following a period of declining health. Interment
was at Athelstan Cemetery,
Athelstan.
Anna, daughter of James W. [illiam] McCann and Sarah Omstott [Onstot] McCann, was born in [De] Witt, Iowa, November 8, 1890.
She
was united in marriage to Albert J. [ames] Rusco, at Athelstan, Iowa, in 1909. To this union six
children were born: four sons and two daughters.
She
is preceded in death by her husband, Albert, an infant son, Arthur,
half brother, James W. McCann.
She
made a confession of faith, and was baptized in the Platte River in early life
and became a member of the Sheridan Christian Church. She was faithful to her
Savior until ill health intervened and she was forced to remain home.
Those
surviving her are: sons: Forrest [Albert] of Blockton, Floyd [Lowen] of Riverside, Calif., Doyle of San Luis Obispo, California, daughters: Helen
Sickles of Stockton, Calif., and Freda
Green of Athelstan; brother, Lee
McCann of Afton, Iowa; sister, Jennie
Rusco of Athelstan; three
half-sisters: Velma Hanger of
Des Moines, Iowa, Minnie Wessels and Cassie Bach of Chula
Vista, Calif.; half brother, Wesley McCann of Urbana, Ill.; 12 grandchildren; 21 great grandchildren; one great
great grandchild, a host of other relatives and neighbors.
[Rusco, Bernadine Marie
“Bea” Barry]
Clearfield
Chronicle
Wednesday February 12,
2003 p. 6
BERNADINE MARIE
RUSCO
Memorial
services for Bernadine Rusco,
age 85 of Bedford, who died Thursday, February 6, 2003 were held Sunday,
February 9, 2003 at 6:00 p.m. at the Ritchie Funeral Home with Father Dan
Siepker officiating. Burial of the ashes will be held in the Athelstan
Cemetery. Memorials can be given in Bea's name. Arrangements were entrusted to
the Ritchie Funeral Home of Bedford.
Bernadine
Marie Rusco was born November 5,
1917, in Adams County, Iowa the daughter of Michael E. Barry and Julia E. McConkey Barry. At the age of six months Bea, along with her parents and brother Johnny and sister Helen, moved to Massena, Iowa where she lived for
twenty years. In 1937, Bea graduated from Massena High School. After graduation, Bea moved to Des Moines where she lived for about two
years. She returned to Corning to work and this is where she met Royal Paul
Rusco. They were married in 1940
and in 1941 their son, Jimmy Joe was
born.
The
family moved to Lenox in 1948 where Bea and Royal both
worked for the telephone company. Later Royal went to work for the Lenox Community School.
They moved to California for a short time, returning to Iowa to live in
Bedford. In 1990, Royal passed
away and in 1992, Bea moved
back to Lenox.
Bea was a member of the St. Patrick's
Catholic Church in Lenox and the American Legion Ladies Auxiliary. Bea also enjoyed fishing, sewing and embroidery work.
She loved playing cards and spending time with her family. In her later years, Bea was active in the churchwomen's guild. She also
enjoyed traveling, having visited New York with her sister and niece.
Left
to cherish Bea’s memory are her son, Jimmy Joe, and a granddaughter, Deidre K. Rusco, both of Bedford; a sister, Helen Mack of Des Moines; and several nieces and nephews.
Preceding Bea in death are her parents, Michael and Julia; her husband Royal and
a brother Johnny.
[Rusco, Jennie McCann]
Bedford Times-Press
Blockton
Wednesday February 4,
1998 p. 4
The
funeral for Jennie Rusco was
held Saturday, January 31st at 1:00 p.m. at the Novinger Taylor Funeral Home in
Bedford. Jennie was 100 years
and two months old. I could be wrong but it seems to me she is the only
centenarian that Blockton can claim. The service was conducted by Scott Marcum.
He was a frequent visitor of Jennie and did such a beautiful job. The burial was in the family plot in the
Athelstan Cemetery. There was a luncheon at the Blockton Community Building
following the gravesite rites where a lovely bountiful luncheon was spread. Due
to the promise of more bad weather they did not linger too long.
Relatives
from a distance were a nephew, Jack Rusco of rural Glenwood; his sisters, Mildred and Peggy of Jameson, MO. Jess Rusco has four daughters still alive, they all came, there was Lorene
Brown and son Kenneth of Joplin; Viola Carder; Ruby Berde and Evelyn Hert all from the Miami Oklahoma area. Brice Rusco, great grandson and friend Tracey of Scott City, MO; from the Kansas City area
granddaughters, Pat Rusco and Marilyn
and Russel Donoho; great
grandsons Jeff and Gray,
Mitchell and Patty Gray and Mitchell and Jennifer.
[Rusco, Jennie McCann]
Bedford Times-Press
Wednesday December 18,
1998 p. 5
Jennie Rusco
Jennie
Rusco died January 28, 1998 at
the Ringgold County Hospital in Mount Ayr, Iowa at the age of 100 years and two
months.
Jennie, daughter of James William and Sadie Onstat
McCann was born November 28, 1897
near Isadora, Missouri.
She
married Thomas [Jefferson] Rusco on February 16, 1916. To this union their son, Leonard Rusco was born.
Following Thomas' death she married Joe
Turner Rusco on April 15, 1925.
Jennie spent most of her life in Athelstan, Iowa. She
loved to spend time with family and friends.
Fishing
and flowers were her passion. In later years she took jobs caring for elderly.
The past seven years she has been a resident of Clearview Nursing Home in Mount
Ayr, Iowa.
She
is survived by two granddaughters, Marilyn Donohoe and Patricia Rusco of Kansas City; five great grandchildren; six
great great grandchildren; nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.
She
is preceded in death by her husbands Thomas Rusco and Joe Rusco; her son Leonard Rusco; her grandson Lowell Rusco; her great grandson Ronald Jackson; her brothers Lee McCann and Henry McCann; her sisters, Eleanor McCann and Anna Rusco; her half brothers, William McCann and Wesley McCann; and her half sisters, Velma Hanger, Cassie
Bach and Minnie Wessels.
[Rusco, Joseph Turner “Joe”]
Bedford Times-Press
Thursday December 8,
1960 p. 4
Joe Rusco, 68 Dies At Mount Ayr
Joe
[Turner] Rusco, 68, of Athelstan
died at Ringgold County hospital, Mount Ayr, early Tuesday morning, December 6.
He had been a patient at the hospital several days following a heart attack.
Funeral
services will be held Friday afternoon at 2 p.m. at the Community Church in
Athelstan. Burial will be in the Athelstan cemetery.
[Rusco, Joseph Turner “Joe”]
Bedford Times-Press
Thursday December 15,
1960 p. 12
Joe Rusco Rites At Athelstan
Joe
Turner Rusco, son of Charles
T. [heodore] and Mary [Catherine Swett] Rusco, was born October 5, 1892 in Jefferson township, Taylor county,
Iowa, and passed away Dec. 6, 1960 at Ringgold County hospital at Mount Ayr, at
the age of 68 years, two months, one day.
He
spent his entire life in Taylor County. He was married to Nada Miller in 1917, and to this union one son was born, Miller
Rusco of Kansas City, Mo. He was
married to Jennie McConn [McCann] Rusco on April 15, 1925. His mother, father, four sisters, and five brothers preceded
him in death.
He
leaves to mourn his passing, his wife, Jennie of Athelstan; the son, Miller of Kansas City; a step-son, Leonard Rusco of Sheridan; a brother, Charles of Bakersfield, Calif.; five grandchildren, two
great grandchildren.
Funeral services were conducted from the
Community Church in Athelstan, Dec. 9, by Rev. L. B. Day of Maryville. Burial
in the Athelstan cemetery.
[Rusco, Joseph Turner “Joe”]
Bedford Times-Press
Thursday December 15,
1960 p. 5
Athlestan
News
ATHELSTAN — Those attending last rites for Joe
Rusco from a distance were: Homer
Rusco of Marquette, Kans.; Mrs.
Sadie Rusco, Mrs. Fred Carder of
Miami, Okla.; Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Brown of Joplin, Mo.; Jack Rusco, Mr. and Mrs. Leland Stitt of Kansas City; Mr. and Mrs. Orville Bricker,
Mr. and Mrs. Royal Rusco of
Lenox; Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Schuster, Mr. Elton Brown of Clearfield; Mrs. Claude Hanks, Mrs. Mildred
Carnew & Ginger, Lathrop; Peggy
Rusco, Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Norton, Clarkie Walston, Elaine
Freemyer, Mrs. Melvin Goudie,
Mr. and Mrs. Ansel Freemyer of
Conway; Mr. and Mrs. Gene Freemyer, Mr. and Mrs. Gene Cordell of Creston; Ray Mercer of Maloy; Mr. and Mrs. J. W. McCann of Cedar Rapids; Mr. and Mrs. Lee McCann of Afton; Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Tindle, Mrs. Merrill
Bailey of Creston; Howard
Woods of Diagonal; C. C. Brand of Fillmore, Mo.; Arthur Freemyer of Clarinda; Mr. and Mrs. Noble Campbell of Cromwell; Orville Swett of Benton; Mrs. Lillie Young of Gravity; Mrs. Wayne Cox, Mr. Richard Poore, and Mr. and Mrs. Dean Million, Mrs. Zola
Freemyer, Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. Marion Dougherty, Lloyd Akers. Don Sharpe, Wayne
Rucker, Paul Savage, Scott Blane, Leonard Scroggie, Clyde Stephenson, Mr. and Mrs. Loyd Larison,
Ben Henderson, Jack Leckliter, Don Morris, Earl Garner, Ben Johnson, K. O.
Wilson, Paul Adams, Floyd Jobe, Bob Anderson and Lewis Glasgow of Bedford; Mr. and Mrs. James Gray, Independence, Mo.
[Rusco, Leonard Paul]
Bedford Times-Press
Thursday March 27,
1980 p. 6
Leonard Rusco, 62 Final Rites Were Held March 22
Funeral
services for Leonard Paul Rusco,
62, of Sheridan, Mo., held March 22 in Shum-Novinger Funeral Home in Bedford,
were conducted by Rev. Allen Tomlinson. Mr. Rusco died March 19, 1980 in his home in Jackson
Township, Taylor County, Ia. Interment was at the Athelstan Cemetery,
Athelstan, Iowa.
Leonard
Paul Rusco was born to Thomas
Jefferson Rusco and Jennie
McCann Rusco on May 16, 1917 at
Athelstan, Iowa.
He
grew to maturity in the Athelstan community.
On
August 11, 1938 he was united in marriage to Roberta Maxine Chandler at Clarinda, Iowa. They lived in the Conway and
Hopkins communities before settling in the Jackson Township of Taylor County
where he was engaged in farming.
To
this union three children were born: Marilyn Kay Donohoe, Lowell Edward
Rusco, and Patricia May Rusco.
He
was preceded in death by his son, Lowell, father, Thomas, and
stepfather, Joe Turner Rusco.
Left
to cherish his memory are his wife Maxine Rusco of the home; daughters Marilyn Donohoe of Kansas City, Mo., and Patricia Rusco of the home; son-in-law, Russell Donohoe of Kansas City, Mo.; grandchildren: Ronald
Jackson of the home, Jeffery
Gray and Mitchell Gray of Kansas City, Mo., Penny Rusco and Angie Rusco of Falls City, Oregon, and Bryce Rusco of the home; mother Jennie Rusco of Blockton, Iowa; mother-in-law, Viola
Chandler, of Athelstan, Ia.;
brother-in-law, Victor Chandler,
of Athelstan, Iowa; a host of relatives and friends.
He
was a kind and considerate son, husband, father, grandfather and neighbor and
will be missed by all who knew and loved him.
[Rusco, Lowell Edward]
Bedford Times-Press
Thursday June 23, 1977 p. 8
Last Rites Held June
20 for Lowell Rusco, 34
Funeral
services for Lowell Edward Rusco,
34, of Coin, Iowa, held June 20 in Shum-Novinger Funeral Home in Bedford, were
conducted by Rev. Hilton Griswold. Mr. Rusco died June 17, 1977 in his home in Coin. Interment
was at the Athelstan Cemetery, Athelstan, Iowa.
Lowell
Edward Rusco was born in Conway,
Iowa August 6, 1942, the son of Leonard and Maxine Rusco.
He
was graduated from the Bedford Community Schools in 1960.
Mr.
Rusco worked six years at Western
Electric in Kansas City, Missouri before coming to work for IAMO Telephone
Company where he worked for the last 10 years.
He
was proud to be a member of the Coin, Iowa community where he served as a
volunteer on the rescue unit and was a member of their volunteer fire
department.
His
survivors include two daughters, Penny Sue and Angie Lucille Rusco of Clarinda; his parents, Leonard [Paul] and
Maxine Rusco [Roberta Maxine
Chandler] of Sheridan; two
sisters, Marilyn Donohoe of
Kansas City and Patricia Rusco of Sheridan; two grandmothers, Jennie Rusco and Viola Chandler, both of Athelstan; an uncle, Victor Chandler, of Athelstan, a brother-in-law, Russell
Donohoe, of Kansas City, Mo.; and
four nephews; other relatives and many friends.
[Rusco, Royal Paul]
Bedford Times-Press
Wednesday March 3, 1928 p. 5
ROYAL PAUL RUSCO
Services
for Royal Paul Rusco, 73,
Bedford, were held Tuesday, March 27 at Shum- Novinger Funeral. Burial was at Athelstan Cemetery. Mr. Rusco died March 23, 1990 at Mercy Hospital, Corning,
Iowa.
Royal
Paul Rusco, son of Turner Joe
Rusco and Lelah Benedon
[Benedom] Rusco was born at
Athelstan, Iowa January 21, 1917. He lived in Taylor County and grew to
maturity in Athelstan where he attended school.
On
May 3, 1940 he was united in marriage to Bernadine Barry at Kansas City, Mo. and they lived in Corning,
Lenox and the Bedford area. He worked most of his life in Taylor County, Iowa.
To
this union one child was born, Jimmie Joe Rusco.
He
was preceded in death by his father.
Left
to cherish his memory is his wife, Bernadine of the home; his son, Jim; his granddaughter, Deidre; his mother, Lelah Rusco in Fresno, Ca.; his brothers and sisters, Beverly
Gould and her husband Eldon,
Marjorie Christensen and her
husband Tom; Mildred Norton and her husband Robert; Jack Rusco and his wife Nancy; Peggy Jincks and her husband James; his
sister-in-law Helen Mack; and
his stepmother, Bessie Stitt.
Royal was a member of the American
Legion Post Parkinson 250 at Lenox, Iowa.
He
was a kind and considerate husband, father, grandfather, son and brother and he
will be missed by all who knew and loved him.
[Rusco, Thomas
Jefferson]
Bedford
Times-Republican
Thursday February 7,
1918 p. 8
Thomas Rusco
Thomas
[Jefferson] Rusco son of Mr.
and Mrs. C. [harles] T. [heodore] Rusco, was born in Taylor County, Iowa, December 12, 1897 and died at the
hospital in St. Joseph, Mo., January 24, 1918, aged 20 years, 1 month and 12
days.
He
was united in marriage to Jennie McCann February 16, 1916. To this union was born one son, Leonard [Paul].
He
leaves to mourn his departure, his father and mother and four sisters and six
brothers: Mrs. Alice Freemyer, Mrs. Clara Freemyer, Charles Rusco, John
Rusco, Jesse Rusco, Albert Rusco, Mrs. Ethel Sickles, Joseph Rusco, Turner
Rusco and Mrs. Flossie Older.
The
funeral services were conducted from the Baptist church in Athelstan, January
26, 1918, by Challie E. Graham, pastor of the Isadora, Mo. church of Christ,
assisted by W. M. Hunt, after which the remains were interred in the Athelstan
cemetery.
The
bereaved ones have the sympathy of friends in this hour of sorrow. May they
look to Him who comforted the troubled in heart when he was here among men and
who is the same today, yesterday and forever. There is a tearless land and
Jesus leads the way to it.
[Rusco, Turner Joe]
Bedford Times-Press
Thursday May 27,
1948 [p. 1]
Turner Rusco Died Wednesday
Turner
Rusco, 55, a resident of the
Conway community died Wednesday at the Greater Community Hospital in Creston,
following an operation on Sunday.
He
is survived by his wife, two married children, and four children of the home.
He is a former resident of Athelstan.
The
body is at the Shum Funeral Home in Bedford.
[Rusco, Turner Joe]
Bedford Times-Press
Thursday June 3,
1948 p. 8
Obituary - Turner
Rusco
Turner
Joe Rusco, son of Charles [Theodore]
and Mary [Catherine Swett] Rusco,
was born in Jefferson township, Taylor county, Iowa, October 5, 1893, and died
May 27, 1048, aged 55 years, 1 months, 22 days.
He
was married to Lelah Benadom in December 1913. To them two children were born, Marjorie Hays of Fresno, Calif., and Royal [Paul] Rusco of Lenox.
On
September 7, 1929, he married Bessie [May] Brown. To them four children were born, Jack,
Beverly, Mildred Ann and Peggy,
all of the home.
His
mother, father, two sisters and four brothers, preceded him in death.
He
leaves to mourn, his wife and six children; two grandchildren, Jerry Hays and Jimmy Rusco; three sisters and three brothers.
Funeral
services were held May 29, 1948 at the Community Church in Athelstan, conducted
by Rev. Lawrence Day of Maryville. Burial was in the Athelstan cemetery.
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