Visitation 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, Monday, May 22, 2017 Ohde Funeral Home, Manning
Funeral Service 10:30 AM, Tuesday, May 23, 2017 Ohde Funeral Home, Manning
Interment Tuesday, May 23, 2017 Manning Cemetery, Manning

Funeral services for Ruby Edmunds, 97, of Manning, Iowa, will be 10:30 AM on Tuesday, May 23, 2017, at Ohde Funeral Home in Manning. Interment will follow in Manning Cemetery. Visitation is 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM on Monday, May 22, 2017, at Ohde Funeral Home in Manning.

Ruby Mae, daughter of George H. and Minnie (Jensen) Struve, was born May 22, 1919, near Manning, Iowa. She grew up in Manning, attended Ewoldt No. 9 country school and graduated from Manning High School in 1936. She then went to school to become a nurse, graduating from Jenny Edmundson Hospital in Council Bluffs in 1941. Ruby worked in Atlantic, Iowa, and Parsons, Kansas.

On August 6, 1943, Ruby was united in marriage with Clarence O. Edmunds in Los Angeles, California. Two children were born to this union. Ruby worked in a couple different hospitals in Los Angeles while Clarence served overseas. In 1952, Ruby and Clarence settled in Manning where Ruby served as the school nurse from 1960 until her retirement in 1970. After Clarence passed away on January 24, 2001, Ruby lived on her own for many years until becoming a resident of Manning Plaza Nursing Home in 2013. Ruby was a member of the First Presbyterian Church in Manning.

On Wednesday, May 17, 2017, Ruby passed away at the Manning Plaza Nursing Home in Manning, Iowa. She was 97 years, 11 months, and 25 days of age.

Besides her husband, Ruby was preceded in death by her parents, a brother Roy Struve, two half-sisters Leona Moore and Gladys McWilliams, and a brother-in-law La Vern Gerkin.

She is survived by a son Paul S. Edmunds (Cindy) of Omaha, Nebraska; a daughter Christine M. Edmunds of Omaha, Nebraska; a grandson Dean A. Edmunds (Cindy) of Omaha, Nebraska; a step-granddaughter Megan Schneider and fiancee Bruce Lundry, of Ames, Nebraska; Great-grandchildren: Zachary, Shelby, Leia, Grace and Jackson; a sister Ruth Gerkin of Omaha, Nebraska; a sister-in-law Virginia Struve of Manning; and many nieces, nephews, other relatives and many friends.