Obit: Rusch, Edward F. (1883 – 1975)

Transcriber: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Rusch, Groenewold, Meyer, Spaeth, Yates, Harmes, LePage, Jacobson, Anderson, Schroeder

---------Source: Owen Enterprise (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 17 Apr 1975

Rusch, Edward F. (19 SEP 1883 – 12 APR 1975)

Services for Edward F. Rusch, 91 of 437 E. Fifth Street, Owen (Clark Co., Wis.) were held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at St. John's Lutheran Church in Withee. Mr. Rusch died at 11:40 a.m. Saturday at Black River Memorial Hospital in Black River Falls.

The Rev. Douglas R. Groenewold, pastor, officiated. Burial followed in the Reseburg Cemetery (Sylvan), rural Thorp (Clark Co., Wis.).

Born September 19, 1883 in Canada, Mr. Rusch lived in the Reseburg area until 1933. He then came to Owen and worked at the Owen Box Factory, and later the Post Manufacturing Company, retiring in 1955. He served as alderman in the City of Owen one term.

Since July 1973 he had lived with his daughter, Evenly, in Black River Falls.

Mr. Rusch married the former Elsie Meyer in 1911. She died November 28, 1927. His second marriage was in 1930 to the former Agnes Spaeth. He later married the former Rose Yates on August 8, 1942. She survives.

Other survivors include a son, Earl Rusch, Withee; a daughter, Mrs. Gordon (Evelyn) Harmes, Black River Falls; two step-daughters, Mrs. Edward (Delia) LePage, Withee and Mrs. Iver (Della) Jacobson, Eau Claire; two sisters, Mrs. Minnie Anderson, Madison, and Mrs. Clara Schroeder, Wisconsin Rapids; a brother, Otto Rusch, Chicago, and three grandchildren.