OBITUARY: Mrs. Ruth Crowl, ?-1981, Mitchell County, Iowa

[St. Ansgar Enterprise, 3 DEC 1981]



              Mrs. Ruth Crowl Funeral Held November 17

  Friends in the Otranto area have received word that Mrs. Ruth Luellen
Crowl died in her sleep Sunday, November 15 at Ogden Manor, Ogden.

  Services were November 17 at the Minburn United Methodist church with the
Rev. Jerry Ulin officiating. Interment was in Elmwood cemetery, Minburn.
Pallbearers were all great nephews. Mrs. Crowl had celebrated her 93rd
birthday anniversary September 12.

  Mr. and Mrs. Crowl came to the Otranto area in 1928 where he was
superintendent of schools until his death in 1930. Mrs. Crowl continued
as primary teacher for some years, then went to Minburn to teach. She had
also taught at Rock Rapids. After retirement she lived in her own home in
Minburn until going to the Eastern Star Home in Boone last winter. Laura
Kolthoff, another former Otranto teacher, is also a resident of Eastern
Star Home.





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