Rudd, Dora Louise (Johnson)

CENTRAL CITY - Dora Louise (Johnson) Rudd, 90, of Central City, died Saturday, Sept. 18, 2010, at the Dennis and Donna Oldorf Hospice House of Mercy in Hiawatha after living a long and happy life. Funeral services: 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 23, at Murdoch Funeral Home & Cremation Service in Central City by R.G. Prucha. Family will greet friends from 4 to 7 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home. Burial: 2 p.m. Thursday, Rose Hill Cemetery, Mechanicsville.

Survivors include her children, Judy (Al) Heims of Marion, Sally (John) Loughren of Central City and Sam (Elizabeth) Rudd of Sac City; four sisters-in-law; two brothers-in-law; and many beloved grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Archie; two sons, Joey in infancy, and Gary; and siblings, Cecil, Lee, Willard, Oscar, LaVerne and John Johnson, Doris Niles and Mary Lou Schaeffer.

Louise was born May 23, 1920, in Mechanicsville, the daughter of Frank and Myrtle (Boyd) Johnson. She graduated as the salutatorian from Mechanicsville High School in 1938. On Aug. 19, 1939, she was united in marriage to Archie Rudd in Wapello, Iowa. Louise worked at Collins Radio beginning in 1958 and retiring after 23 ½ years.

Please sign the online guest book for Louise at under obituaries.