Opal A. Ruwe, 93, of Blair, died Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2007 at Memorial Community Hospital in Blair.

Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday, Dec. 7, at Trinity Lutheran Church in Blair.

Interment will be in the Blair Cemetery. Visitation will begin at 11 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 6, at Campbell-Aman Funeral Home with family receiving friends from 6 to 8 p.m. A prayer service will be held at 7:30 p.m.

Opal A. Kuhr was born March 8, 1914, on the family farm near Orum, to George and Mary (Hansen) Kuhr. She was baptized and confirmed at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church at Orum. She attended Lincoln school, and Rose Hill School. On June 16, 1935, she was united in marriage to Raymond Ruwe at Trinity Lutheran Church in Blair. She helped her husband farm near Orum, living there until moving to Blair in 1982. She moved to Good Shepherd Home in 2005.

Mrs. Ruwe like baking, gardening, needle work, quilting, reading, especially the Bible, loved to sing and enjoyed butterflies.

She was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church where she was active in ladies aid. She was a member of Farm Bureau, Lutheran Layman’s League, the MCH Hospital Auxiliary, and card clubs in Blair.

She is survived by her daughters, Lila Petersen of Arlington, Donna Hovendick of Waterloo, and Carol Heinssen of Blair; son and daughter-in-law, David and Marsha Ruwe, Blair; 16 grandchildren; 23 great-grandchildren; and four great-great-grandchildren; two sisters-in-law, Velma Jeppesen and Jane Kuhr, both of Blair.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Raymond; daughter, Marilyn Mathiesen; granddaughter, Mary Jo Hovendick; two sons-in-law, Larry Petersen and Ivan Hovendick Jr.; two great-grandchildren; a great-great-grandson; four brothers and two sisters.

Memorials are suggested to Good Shepherd Lutheran Home, or Trinity Lutheran Church.

Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file at the Blair Public Library.