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Neva Ruth McCartie
July 06, 1942 - February 23, 2010
Oskaloosa, Iowa
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| Visitation: Visitation will start at 12:00 pm with the family present from 5-7 pm. February 26, 2010 at Garland-Van Arkel-Langkamp Funeral Chapel |
| Funeral Service: Funeral services will be held Saturday, at 10:30 A.M. February 27, 2010 at Garland-Van Arkel-Langkamp Funeral Chapel with Rev. Liz Colton of the St. Paul Congregational United Church of Christ officiating. |
Interment: Forest Cemetery
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Neva Ruth McCartie, daughter of George Carroll and Neva Mae Mills Johnson, was born June 30, 1924 in Oskaloosa, Iowa. She was a 1942 graduate of Oskaloosa High School. Soon after, Ruth married Floyd Earnest McCartie, Jr. in Lancaster, Mo. Floyd’s career in the U.S. Air force took Ruth and Floyd to many places around the world for the first 24 years of their marriage.
Ruth worked as a medical secretary in the Civil Service in Japan and Tacoma, Wash. After Floyd’s retirement from the military in 1966, they made their home in Beacon, IA, where Ruth later served as Mayor. Ruth resumed her work as a medical secretary at the Family Medical Center. Later she and Floyd purchased the grocery store in Beacon, which they expanded to include a laundromat. After operating the store/laundry for several years, they sold it and Ruth earned her real estate license. She worked for Century 21 Realtors. After retiring from their second careers, Ruth and Floyd established a second home in Arizona, where they spent 6 months a year. After Floyd’s death in 2001, Ruth made Beacon her full-time home. Ruth was an avid reader and also enjoyed oil painting and crocheting and she was a past member of the Order of the Eastern Star.
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Her family includes a daughter and son-in-law, Judy and George Wilson of Colfax, Ia.; three grandchildren: Jeffrey (Madeleine) Roorda of Clarksville, Tenn., Shelly (Scott) Anderson of Rose Hill, Ia. and Andrew (Kerri) Wilson of Beacon, Ia.; seven great grandchildren; five great great grandchildren; sisters: Dena (Norm) Roorda of Oskaloosa and Darlene Schippers of Alabama; sisters-in-law: Alberta McCartie of Memphis, Tenn. and Eleanor Schwab in Pittsburgh, Calif.; and several nieces and nephews.
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Besides her parents, Ruth was preceded in death by her husband Floyd.
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Memorials may be made to Hospice of Mahaska County
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