Ruby L. Rudy

Memorial Service for Ruby L. Rudy, 85, of Spirit Lake, IA, formerly of Fairmont, MN, will be 10:30 A.M. on Monday, December 30, 2013, at the Lakeview Funeral Home Chapel in Fairmont with inurnment in Fairview Memorial Park in Fairmont. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service on Monday, December 30, 2013, at the Lakeview Funeral Home. Ruby passed away on Thursday evening, December 19, 2013, at the Hilltop Care Center in Spirit Lake, IA. The Lakeview Funeral Home and Cremation Service in Fairmont is in charge of arrangements. Ruby Lillian (Campe) Rudy was born on March 7, 1928, in Pleasant Prairie Township, Granada, MN. She was the daughter of Henry and Edith (Thate) Campe. She graduated from Granada High School before furthering her education at Mankato State College.On June 9, 1951, Ruby was united in marriage to Kenneth Rudy at St. Paul?s Evangelical and Reform Church near East Chain, MN. This union was blessed with three children, Rebecca, Curtis, and Angella. Ruby and Ken resided in Granada before moving to Fairmont in 1952. They later moved to Spirit Lake in 1967 and they shared sixty-two years together. Ruby worked as an elementary teacher. She taught in Granada for seventeen years. When Ruby and Ken moved to Spirit Lake, Ruby worked at Berkley?s for one year before teaching at Sioux Valley Round Lake for nineteen years. After her retirement from teaching, Ruby worked part-time at Wal-Mart in Spirit Lake for eleven years. Ruby was a member of Spirit Lake United Methodist Church and was also a member of the Teacher?s Union. During her free time, Ruby enjoyed reading, fishing, telling jokes, doing crossword puzzles and belonged to the Great Lakes Road Riders motorcycle club in Spirit Lake. She loved her pet dogs and cats through the years and she especially loved the time she spent with her grandchildren and great grandchildren.Left to cherish her memory include her husband, Ken Rudy of Spirit Lake, IA; children, Rebecca Sanders and her husband, Ed, of Truman, MN, Curtis Rudy and his wife, Terri, of Kansas City, MO, and Angella Plowman and her husband, Jeremy, of Indio, CA; grandchildren, Sara Utermarck and her husband, Jim, of Fairmont, MN, Derek Sanders and his wife, Amy, of Truman, MN, Christopher Rudy and his wife, Kelly, of Kansas City, MO, Caitlyn Hamilton and her husband, Jason, of Grain Valley, MO, Hudson Plowman of Indio, CA, and Waverly Plowman of Indio, CA; great grandchildren, Jackson and Anna Utermarck, and Kain and Avery Sanders; brothers, Truman Campe of Granada, MN, Leonard Campe and his wife, Joan, of Fairmont, MN, and Lowell Campe and his wife, Shirley of Emmetsburg, IA; many nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends. Along with her parents, Henry and Edith Campe, Ruby was also preceded in death by a grandson in infancy; granddaughter, Erin Sanders; sisters, Eleanor Wille and her husband, Ervin, and Cleo Meschke and her husband, Leonard; brother, Phil Campe and his wife, Anna Mae; sisters-in-law, Marie Rudy, Shirley Campe, and Marge Squire and her husband, Lowell; brother-in-law, Dale Rudy.