Ruth Brenno

August 15, 2012

Ruth Marian Brenno, 92, of Kensett, died on Tuesday, August 7, 2012, at the Muse-Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit in Mason City.

Funeral services were held at 1:30 p.m., on Monday, August 13, at the Elk Creek Lutheran Church, Kensett, with Pastor Tom Martin and Pastor Timothy Nappe officiating. Burial was in the Elk Creek Lutheran Church Cemetery. Visitation was held from 5-7:00 p.m., on Sunday, at the Conner Colonial Chapel. Visitation was also held one hour prior to the service time on Monday at the church.

Ruth M. (Nappe) Brenno, was born on January 13, 1920 in rural Lake Mills, in Worth County, Iowa, the daughter of Tolleff and Hannah (Vange) Nappe. She was baptized and reaffirmed the faith of her baptism through confirmation in the Sion Lutheran Church, rural Lake Mills. Ruth received her education in the Lake Mills and Joice community schools. She was united in marriage to Olaf Brenno on January 28, 1940 in Mason City. He preceded her in death in 2001. After their marriage Olaf and Ruth farmed in the Kensett area for many years. After her mother (Hannah) died, her younger brother, Donald, lived with Olaf and Ruth for six years.

Ruth became a resident of the Maple Court Apartments in Northwood in 2004 and had been a resident of the Lutheran Retirement Home in Northwood since 2005.

Ruth loved to travel, especially to Norway, where she made two trips, visiting with her family and friends, sightseeing, entertaining, Norwegian rosemaling, making Norwegian pastries and doing ceramics at the Lutheran Retirement Home in Northwood, where she won several blue ribbons for her ceramics at the Worth County Fair and in her earlier years loved to play the organ. Ruth was a member of the Elk Creek Lutheran Church in Kensett and a member of the Sons of Norway.

Those left to cherish her memory are her brothers and sister, Stanley (Betty) Nappe of Norway, Iowa, Ralph Nappe of Mantorville, Minnesota, Donald (Carol) Nappe of Kensett, Iowa, and Alice (James) Kambanos of Glendale, Arizona; as well as several nieces, nephews and many other extended family members and friends.

Ruth was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Olaf; brothers, Wilmer Nappe, Leonard Nappe and Orlyn Nappe; her sister, Thelma Adam; and her sister-in-law, Evelyn Nappe.
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Virginia Johnson

August 15, 2012

Funeral services for Virginia (Boggess) Johnson, 84, of Estherville, were held at the St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Estherville, on Monday, August 6. She passed from this life on Monday, July 30, 2012, at the Avera McKennan Hospital in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

She is the sister of long-time administrator at the N-K Schools, Francis Boggess, who lived with her in Estherville following his retirement in the early 1990s.

She is survived by two daughters, two sons, 12 grand and great-grandchildren and her brother, Francis.
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