OBITUARY: Ruth Eva (Petznick) Dalluge, 1908-2002, Mitchell County, Iowa
                                                        



                            Ruth E. Dalluge

Funeral services for Ruth E. Dalluge, age 94, of Grafton were held Friday,
May 31, 2002 at Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Grafton with the Rev. Wayne
Ellingson officiating. Interment will be at the Grafton Cemetery. Ruth
died Tuesday, May 28, 2002, at the Good Samaritan Center in St. Ansgar.

Ruth Eva was born January 7, 1908 in Barton Township, Worth County, to Fred
and Lena (Viergutz) Petznick. She was baptized and confirmed at the Emmanuel
Lutheran Church in Grafton. She attended Barton Township country school,
parochial school and later the high school in Grafton. On September 22,
1929, she was united in marriage to Lawrence Dalluge at Emmanuel Lutheran
Church. She and her husband farmed in the Grafton area in the early years
of their marriage. They moved to Grafton where she lived until entering the
Good Samaritan Center in 1998. Among her interests throughout the years were
crocheting, embroidering, gardening, baking, dancing, playing cards and
fishing. Her greatest love was taking care of children. In addition to
her children she and her husband had nine foster children and she was
thought of as "Grandma" by the neighbor children.

Ruth was preceded in death by her parents, husband Lawrence, one sister
Dorothy Terrill and two brothers, Ruben and Alvin.

She is survived by a son Richard Dalluge and wife LuAnn of Spicer, MN; a
daughter Rebecca Dalluge of Rochester, MN, two grandsons, Samuel Dalluge
and wife Andrea and their three boys, Noah, Gabriel and Joshua of Rogers,
MN, Joseph Dalluge and wife Sarah and their children, Jacob and Samantha of
Waverly, MN, one sister Evelyn Taylor and husband of Torrance, CA and
several nieces and nephews.

Champion-Bucheit Funeral Home, Osage was in charge of arrangements.




Copyright (c) 2005 by Kermit Kittleson

Based on Obituary in Mitchell County Press-News, online, www.mcpress.com,
     Posted June 5, 2002