Ruth Rust

The funeral service for Ruth Rust, 91, of Marshall, formerly of rural Vesta, will be Friday, December 2, 2022, at 1:00 p.m. at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Vesta. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service at the church. Interment will follow at the Vesta Cemetery. Ruth Irene (Schulz) Rust was born on January 23, 1931, in Wood Lake, to William and Irene (Busiahn) Schulz. She grew up in Wood Lake until the family moved to Seaforth when she was a freshman in high school. Ruth graduated from Wabasso High School and later worked at JC Penney and the ASC office in Redwood Falls. On September 12, 1954, Ruth was united in marriage to Dale Rust at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Seaforth. The couple made their home and raised their two children on Dale’s family farm in Underwood Township, working side by side for many years. Ruth was a skilled seamstress and an excellent baker of pies, bread, and rolls. She loved cats and nursed many of them back to health over the years. Ruth enjoyed ice skating. She taught her daughters and grandchildren to skate. In her free time, Ruth liked to read and play the piano. She enjoyed hosting and bringing everyone together to play cards and games. Ruth and Dale traveled many places together. They visited much of the United States, as well as England. Ruth lived on the farm until 2015. She moved briefly to Boulder Estates in Marshall before moving to Avera Morningside Heights in 2017. Ruth died on Sunday, November 27, 2022, at Avera Morningside Heights Care Center in Marshall. She is survived by her daughters Jane (Jim) Vraspir of Hopkins and Jill (Paul) Voxland of Northfield; grandchildren Emily (Matt) Tobin, John Bjorklund, and Zachary Bjorklund; great-grandchildren Oliver Joseph Tobin and Hayes Dale Tobin; as well as many relatives and friends. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband Dale, and brother Bill Schulz. In lieu of flowers, memorials are preferred to the Minneapolis Heart Institute.