OBITUARY: Rose Ruth Nickerson 1908-2002, Mitchell County, Iowa



                         Rose Ruth Nickerson

[ Mitchell County Press-news online - Posted Sept. 18, 2002 ]

Funeral services for Rose Ruth Nickerson, 94, of St. Ansgar will be held at
10:30 am on Thursday, Sept. 19, 2002 at the United Methodist Church,
St. Ansgar. Reverend Jay Amundson is officiating. Burial will be in the
Newburg Cemetery, Carpenter, IA.  Rose died Sunday, Sept. 15, 2002 at the
Good Samaritan Center in St. Ansgar.

Rose Ruth Nickerson was born on the Gerlach farm in Newburg Township on
April 16, 1908, the eighth of 11 children to Frank and Emma (Priem) Gerlach.
She graduated from Carpenter High School in 1928. She attended music school
for one year studying piano which she taught to many children. She married
Harold Nickerson at the Gerlach home on Feb. 19, 1930.

Rose was preceded in death by her parents, husband H.B. Nickerson in 1996,
three brothers Roy, Earl and Art Gerlach, five sisters Irma, Lucille, Ruth
and infant twins.

She is survived by five children, Verle and his wife Evelyn of Osage, Joanne
Borchardt and husband George of Holland, Gene and wife Nedra of Paradise
Valley, AZ, H. James and wife Gretta of Marchfield, WI, Mary Loomer of
St. Paul, MN, 21 grandchildren, 42 great-grandchildren, two great-great
grandchildren, and two brothers, Bill and Gene Gerlach of St. Ansgar.

Schroeder & Sites Funeral Home of St. Ansgar is in charge of arrangements.
641-713-4920.




Copyright (c) 2002 by Kermit Kittleson
(Note: I am not necessarily related to the subject of the obituary.)
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