Ruth F. Richardson, 81, Milladore, died Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012, at Ministry St. Joseph’s Hospital in Marshfield.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday at St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church in Milladore. Burial will be in the parish cemetery.
Visitation was scheduled to be held at Martens/Rembs Funeral Home in Junction City from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday, with a rosary service at 7 p.m., and at the church from 9:30 a.m. Friday until the Mass.
Memorials may be designated in her name to St. Wenceslaus Parish Council of Catholic Women.
Condolences may be offered online at www.rembsfh.com.
Mrs. Richardson was born Oct. 10, 1930, in Milladore, a daughter of the late Alvin and Josephine (Koller) Seefeldt. She was a 1948 graduate of Auburndale High School.
She was married to William D. Richardson Jr. in 1949. He died on Nov. 14, 1990.
She began farming with her husband in 1957. After his death she continued to farm.
For the past seven months she had resided in Marshfield with her daughter.
Survivors include three daughters, Sharon O’Brien, Racine, Bonnie (Jim) Hampton, Stevens Point, and Lynn (Lance) Williams, Marshfield; three sons, Dale (Christine), Junction City, and Terry (Rhonda) and Kenneth (Lori), both of Milladore; three sisters, Charlotte (Wayland) Peterson, Amherst, and Doris Wirth and Mary Ann Olson, both of Milwaukee; one brother, Raymond (Elaine) Seefeldt, Arpin; 15 grandchildren; four stepgrandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.
She was also preceded in death by three brothers, Bernard, Orville and Alvin “Buddy” Jr.; one sister, Florence Murphy; and one son-in-law, Robert O’Brien.
