OBITUARY: Leo C. Ross, Mitchell County, Iowa

[Mitchell County Press-News, online, www.mcpress.com, Posted June 5, 2002]


                             Leo C. Ross

Funeral services were held for Leo C. Ross, age 83, of Osage on Saturday,
June 1, 2002 at the Champion-Bucheit Funeral Home in Osage. Rev. Dennis
Hanson officiated. Interment was at Sunnyside Memory Gardens in Charles
City, with military rites conducted at the grave by the Osage American
Legion Post 278.  Leo died Tuesday, May 28, 2002 at the Good Samaritan
Center in St. Ansgar.

Leo was born February 27, 1919 at Bassett, the son of August and Frances
(Schilling) Ross. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II. He farmed
southeast of Cowell, and also was employed at the Floyd Quarry until his
retirement. Leo married Vera (O'Donnell) Miller in 1961 at the Sacred Heart
Catholic Church in Osage. He was a member of the Osage American Legion
Post 278.

He was preceded in death by his parents.

Leo is survived by his wife Vera Ross, of Osage, two stepsons, Duane Miller
of Boaz, AL and Harold "Tub" Miller of Leland, IA, five step-grandchildren,
Ken Miller, Scott Miller, Marla Sgarbossa, Michael Britt, Harold Britt, Jr.
and nine step-great-grandchildren.





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