Joseph Ruggle
Apr 27, 2018Mass of Christian burial will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday, March 28 at the St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Perry. Visitation will be from 1 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 27 with family present from 5 to 7 p.m. with a Vigil service at 7:15 p.m. at the Carris Family Funeral Home & Cremation Care in Perry. Burial will be in the Violet Hill Cemetery at Perry. Memorials will be given to St. Patrick’s Joseph & Arva Ruggle Scholarship Fund and may be left at the Carris Family Funeral Home & Cremation Care. Online condolences may be sent at carrisfuneralhome.com.Joseph Anthony Ruggle was born July 1, 1926, at Conception, Mo., to Alphonse O. and Marie Stella (McCann) Ruggle. He graduated from St. Patrick’s High School in Perry. After graduation he served his country in General MacArthur’s Honor Guard in Japan. He was united in marriage to Arva Marie Hurd at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church Sept. 14, 1948. He was a milkman for Anderson Erickson Dairy and also worked at Oscar Mayer, IBP and lastly for Meals On Wheels. He was a member of the St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Perry. He was an avid reader and enjoyed traveling.In death he rejoins his wife, Arva Marie Ruggle; parents, Alphonse and Marie Ruggle; son, Michael; sisters, Mary Theresa Ruggle and Cecelia Finn; and a brother, Philip Ruggle.Left to cherish Joe’s memory are his children, Don (Karen) Ruggle of Perry, Jim (Donna) Ruggle of Waunakee, Wis., Dave Ruggle of Austin, Texas, Paul (Dianne) Ruggle of Newton, Margaret Ruggle of Perry, Anna Ruggle of Des Moines, Dan (Gina) of Perry, Jerry (Christine) of Perry and Kevin (Kristi) of Manhattan, Kan.; 13 grandchildren; and nine great grandchildren; siblings, Ruth and Helen Ruggle of Perry, Leo (Rosemary) Ruggle of Northfield, Minn., and Clarita Penczek of Joliet, Ill.; and a sister-in-law, Jean Hurd of Marshalltown. (Newton Daily News)
