Graveside services will be Friday, August 15, at Rose Hill Cemetery in Greene at 2:00p.m. for Ruth Edna Fleek, 88, who died Saturday, August 9, at Beverly Manor Convelescent Center in Iowa City after a long illness.
She was born January 9, 1898, near Greene. She spent most of her early life in Estherville, Iowa. She graduated in 1916 from Greene Community School and later Iowa State University and the University of Iowa.
She taught home economics in Cedar Rapids for forty-two years before her retirement in 1964. She was a member of Bernice Pratt Circle of Kings Daughters.
She is survived by a niece, Gail L. Atchison, of Iowa City' fifteen great nieces and nephews; and eighteen great great nieces and nephews.
Taken from a newspaper obituary. Hand written in was Green Recorder, Aug 13, 1986
Graveside services will be Friday, August 15, at Rose Hill Cemetery in Greene at 2:00p.m. for Ruth Edna Fleek, 88, who died Saturday, August 9, at Beverly Manor Convelescent Center in Iowa City after a long illness.
She was born January 9, 1898, near Greene. She spent most of her early life in Estherville, Iowa. She graduated in 1916 from Greene Community School and later Iowa State University and the University of Iowa.
She taught home economics in Cedar Rapids for forty-two years before her retirement in 1964. She was a member of Bernice Pratt Circle of Kings Daughters.
She is survived by a niece, Gail L. Atchison, of Iowa City' fifteen great nieces and nephews; and eighteen great great nieces and nephews.
Taken from a newspaper obituary. Hand written in was Green Recorder, Aug 13, 1986
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