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Ruby Toenjes
RUBY TOENJES
Monticello
Ruby Toenjes, 95, died Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017, at Monticello Nursing and Rehabilitation Center following an extended illness.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday, Aug. 21, at Goettsch Funeral Home, Monticello, with interment in Oakwood Cemetery. Friends may call from 3 to 6 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home. Allan R. Christopherson will officiate at the service.
Thoughts, memories and condolences may be left at www. goettschonline.com.
Surviving are two children, Sandra (David) Brandt, Seattle, Wash., and Douglas (Jan) Toenjes, Monticello; three grandsons, Ryan Toenjes and Todd and Cameron Brandt; five great-grandchildren; and a sister, Mildred Brewer.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Irvin; and six siblings, Laverne Ambuehl, Erma Eby, Iola Hoffman, Edna Rebitch, Patricia Rhatigan and her twin, Joyce Robertson.
Ruby Ann Ambuehl was born Feb. 28, 1922, at John McDonald Hospital in Monticello, Iowa, the daughter of Andrew and Lena Etten Ambuehl. Ruby attended Lovell Township School No. 1 and Monticello Community High School. Ruby Ambuehl and Irvin Toenjes were married Jan. 10, 1940, at the German Reform Church Parsonage in Monticello.
The couple farmed in Wayne Township near Anamosa. In 1967, the couple retired from farming and moved to Anamosa. Ruby worked at the Anamosa Hospital in the medical records department as a nurse's aide and in the Senior Daycare.
Irvin preceded her in death on Oct. 16, 2005.
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