Ruth O. Cousin
Ruth O. Cousin August 25, 1895 -
September 4, 1994 Ruth
Cousin was born Aug 25, 1895, in Sexton to William and Emma
Johnson Hager. She graduated from Alden High School,
Ellsworth College and received her nursing degree from
Illinois Training School for Nursing in Cook County Hospital
in Chicago, Ill. On June 2, 1923 she married Walter
Luin Cousin at Burdette. She was a school nurse in the
Iowa Falls school system for 28 years before retiring.
She was a member of the United Church of Christ, PEO, and
the Order of Eastern star Prisceilla Chapter No. 216, all in
Alden, National Retired Teacher's Association and National
Registered Nurses Association. Survivors include one son, Rich and wife, Doris of
Waverly; a daughter Helen Schneider and husband Gar of
Alden; six grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; and one
sister, Thora Christiansen of Alden. She was preceded
in death by her parents, her husband in 1961, and one
sister. Start-Welin Funeral Home in Boone is in charge of
arrangements.
BOONE - Ruth Cousin, 99, formerly of Alden
and Iowa Falls, died Sunday, Sept. 4, 1994 at the Eastern
Star Masonic Home in Boone due to Heart failure. She had
been a resident of the home since Aug 1. 1977. Services
will be held Thursday, Sept. 8 at 1:30 p.m. at the United
Church of Christ in Alden with burial in the Alden
Cemetery. Rev. Bob Miller will officiate. Visitation will
be Thursday morning from 8:30 a.m.-9:30 a.m. at the Easter
Star Masonic Home in Boone and from noon until time of
service at the United Church of Christ in Alden.