Funeral services were held Monday June 3, 2002, at the Little Cedar United Methodist Church in Little Cedar, Iowa with the Rev. Robert W. Lemmermann officiating. Interment was in the Little Cedar Cemetery.

Ruth E. (Penney) Arnold, age 75, long time resident of Mason City, Iowa and formerly of Little Cedar, died Thursday, May 30, 2002 at the Faith Lutheran Home in Osage, Iowa.

Ruth Arnold was born June 18, 1926 in Little Cedar, the daughter of Clinton Joe and Thelma (McPhail) Penney. Ruth graduated from Little Cedar High School in 1943, and then received her Teaching Degree from Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. She taught elementary school for various school districts throughout South Dakota, Minnesota, and Iowa. She began her teaching career in a rural school in Mitchell County. From there she taught for a number of years in Lansing and Osage. She continued her career teaching in Sioux Falls, S.D. and Richfield, Minn., before moving to Mason City. She was an active supporter of the school and college activities that her children were involved in.

Ruth is survived by two daughters, Patricia Fankell and her husband Bill of Des Moines, Iowa and Penny Arnold of Des Moines; one son, Mark Arnold of Spokane, Wash.; one sister, Maxine McSweeney and her husband Bob of Osage.

She was preceded by her parents; two brothers, Dean and Rex Penney.

Source: Riceville Recorder; June 6, 2002 Page
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