This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: TREWET, METZ, KEDZIOR, BOND, HALL, HICKEY, NENNEMAN, TRAVIS, VANCE, BROWN, REED, WALTERS, PENN, CARTER, BIRKBY, SLIGAR, PHILLIPS, BEATY, GIEBER Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1692 Message Board Post: FROM SIDNEY ARGUS-HERALD, FEBRUARY 14, 2002 - RUTH M. TREWET BURIED IN SIDNEY - Funeral services for Ruth Trewet of Sidney were held February 6, 2002, at Crawford-Marshall Funeral Chapel in Sidney with the Rev. Mike Metz of the Sidney United Methodist church officiating. Musical selections were "In the Garden" and "The Lord's Prayer," sung by Nancy Kedzior. Esther Jo Bond was organist. Shirley Hall presided at the memory book and flowers were cared for by Bonnie Hickey, Pam Nenneman and JoElla Travis. Pallbearers were Mitch Trewet, Matt Trewet, Mike Trewett, Rick Vance and Lawerence Brown. Honorary bearers were Lee Reed, Dennis Travis, Mike Walters, Bill Penn, Perry Carter, Robert Birkby and Carl Sligar. Interment was in the Sidney, IA, cemetery. Memorials are designated to the Sidney United Methodist church. Ruth Marion Trewet, 85, of Sidney, IA, died Februrary 4, 2002 at Heritage House in Atlantic, IA, where she had been a resident since May, 2001. The daughter of Arthur Nicholas Phillips and Bertie Helena Beaty Phillips, Ruth was born February 8, 1916, in Carrollton, MO. She grew up and attended school in Hamburg, IA, graduating there with the Class of 1934. She was united in marriage to Carrol Carter Trewet in Rock Port, MO, on May 20, 1934. The couple made their home in Sidney. Her husband died June 29, 1993. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church in Sidney and taught Sunday school there for nearly thirty years. She was active in the WSCS for many years. She was a homemaker and enjoyed her family and exploring the family genealogy. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; one sister, Frances Joan Brown; two brothers, William Martin Phillips and Arthur Estle Phillips. She is survived by her son, Dr. Carrol C. Trewet and his wife, Betty, of Atlantic; a granddaughter, Laurel Suzanne Vance and her husband Rick of Millard, NE; four grandsons, John Mitchell Trewet, and his wife, Tama, of Atlantic, IA, Matthew Stephen Trewet of West Des Moines, IA, Michael Joseph Trewet and his wife, Lisa, of Mason City, IA, and Mark Douglas Trewet, and his wife, Jodi, of Gretna, NE. Also surviving are six great-grandchildren, Chance, Caroline and Carter Trewet, Jacob and Andrew Vance, and Timothy Trewet; one brother, Sidney Beaty Phillips and his wife, Ruth of Maple Plain, MN; two sisters, Mary Jane Gieber of Davis, CA, and Loretta Marian Birkby and her husband, Jack of Elmira OR, and nieces and nephews.