Gustav H. Ruge

Son of Hans W. and Therese J.M. Ruge, and a sister, Helen E. Ruge, all buried in the Manning Cemetery.

The body of Gustav Ruge, born in February 25, 1890, former Omaha aviator who stayed in the Veterans' Hospital at Lincoln, Nebraska, Wednesday as the result of injuries in a plane crash near Coin, Iowa, arrived here Friday, February 11, 1931.

The funeral will be held at the Fitch & McEachron Mortuary at, 2:30 p.m. Saturday, with members of Mizpah Lodge No. 302, A.F. and A.M. in charge.

The body will be sent to Manning, Iowa, for funeral and burial Sunday.

Victim of Crash Last Summer Dies
The Courier Waterloo, February 12, 1931
Gustav Ruge, Omaha aviator who was injured in an airplane accident at Coin, Iowa, last summer, died here Wednesday night at the Veterans Hospital. The landing gear of his plane broke and the ship crashed into a tree. He was paralyzed from the waist down. Ruge was in an Omaha hospital for five months before he was brought to the new hospital here.

Gustav H. Ruge was born in Avoca, Iowa, February 25, 1890.
He was initiated February 8, 1924, and passed March 21, 1924; then raised to the Subline Degree of a Master Mason April 25, 1924, in Mizpah Lodge No. 302 AT&AM, Omaha, Nebraska.
He passed from this life February 11, 1931, at the age of forty years, eleven months, and seventeen days.
Taken from the Manning Masonic Lodge record book.