IN LOVING MEMORY RUTH EVELYN MORK

SERVICES SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1996, 11:00 A.M. UNITED METHODIST CHURCH MANNING, IOWA
OFFICIATING REVEREND LARRY McALPINE
EULOGY REVEREND LESTER MOORE
MUSIC "HYMN OF PROMISE" GORDON SMITH, VOCALIST
"SPIRIT SONG" "THIS IS THE DAY" CONGREGATION
JOANN KARSTEN, ORGANIST
GREETERS KEN AND BEV AHRENHOLTZ
USHERS: JACK LORENZEN, DAN MUHLBAUER, LOWELL STRIBE, KEITH KELDERMAN

THE FAMILY WISHES TO EXPRESS THEIR GRATITUDE FOR YOUR KINDNESS EVIDENCED IN THOUGHT, WORD, AND DEED, AND INVITES YOU TO JOIN THEM FOR LUNCH AND FELLOWSHIP AT THE CHURCH FOLLOWING THE SERVICE.


RUTH EVELYN MORK
A funeral service for Ruth Evelyn Mork of Manning will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, October 19, 1996, at United Methodist Church in Manning.

Mrs. Mork, 73, died of a pulmonary embolism Sunday, October 13, 1996, while she and her husband, James, were visiting their son, Lynn, in Berlin, Wisconsin.

The Rev. Larry McAlpine will officiate the service and the Rev. Lester Moore will deliver the eulogy. Greeters will be Ken and Bev Ahrenholtz. Ushers will be Jack Lorenzen, Lowell Stribe, Dan Muhlbauer, and Keith Kelderman.

Ohde Funeral Home of Manning is in charge of arrangements. A memorial fund is being established.

A daughter of Walter and Anna (Evans) Davis, she was born April 15, 1923, at Menlo and upon graduating from high school there in 1940 completed beauty school in Des Moines.

She and James R. Mork were married September 5, 1948, at Methodist Church in Menlo.

They moved to Manning in 1958 and Mrs. Mork worked as a secretary at United Methodist Church. In 1965 she went to work for the Manning School District as a secretary. She retired in 1993 as secretary to the superintendent and school board.

She was a longtime member of Manning United Methodist Church and the United Methodist Women, of which she was most recently the Sioux City District secretary. She was also a member of PEO Chapter 18 and a former 4-H assistant.

Survivors include her husband, James, of Manning; a daughter, Denise Smith, and her husband, Gordon, of Indianola; a son, Lynn Mork, and his wife, Pam, of Berlin, Wisconsin; four grandchildren: Kristine and Bradley Smith and Erik and Laura Mork; and two sisters: Marion Fritz of Rippey and Dorothy Stemm of Mount Home, Arizona.

Mrs. Mork was preceded in death by her parents; a brother, Russell Davis; and a sister, Laura Dickson.