Clayton County Register

Rosella Maye (Averill) Dugan, 82, Guttenberg, Iowa passed away April 4, 2019 at 6:57 am in the Guttenberg Care Center. She was born May 1, 1936 on a farm near Wadena Iowa to Shirley and Louise Averill and was the oldest of four children. She spent the first portion of her married life as a homemaker and assisting with farm chores. She then became a laborer at Ertl Toys in Dyersville, Iowa. She enjoyed spending time with family & friends and making puzzles & beaded bracelets.

She is preceded in death by her parents. Those left behind to cherish her memory are her children Leroy (Marsha) Dugan, Dennis (Cathy) Dugan, Lynn (Bernie) Jaster, Cindy (Arnie) Ingles, Duane (Shelly) Dugan, Mike (Connie) Dugan, Bill (Becky) Dugan; her brother Richard (Barbara) Averill and sisters Lou Ann Fox and Dianna Walker; 18 grandchildren, 33 great grandchildren and many nieces and nephews.

By Pam Reinig
Register Editor

Efforts are currently underway to raise funds for a project that would transform the long stretch of alley from Elkader City Hall to Founder’s Park into a walking art gallery.

Art in the Alley, as the effort is known locally, has long been discussed by the Main Street Elkader Design Committee as a way to beautify the alley and draw more visitors to town. The project received seed money for Phase 1 in the form of a $10,000 matching grant from the Upper Mississippi Gaming Corporation. The committee has raised about half the money it needs through fund-raising events like the recent Abbie’s Artwork show, private donations and downtown building owner investments.

Roy Robert Pady, 95, died March 17, 2019, at the Elkader Care Center.

Roy was born on July 29, 1923, to Arthur and Elizabeth Pady, in Washburn, WI. His growing up years were spent on his family’s dairy farm. He attended Progress Elementary School,  one-room country school, and graduated from Ondosigan High, a small country high school. He attended two years of college in River Falls, WI, but then returned to the farm to help out as World War II was going on. In 1945, Roy joined the Army, training at Ft. Lewis, Washington, before being send to Germany where he was stationed from 1946 through the ends of the war in 1948. On April 19, 1948, Roy married the love of his life, Kornelia (Connie) Nedecey-Ruszak, a beautiful Hungarian girl who was cashiering at the PX. Their marriage lasted 65 years until her passing in 2013.

Barbara Ann Hummel, 65, of Oelwein, passed away at Covenant Hospital in Waterloo on Tuesday, March 19, 2019, surrounded by her family.

She was born on February 6, 1954, at the Oelwein Hospital to Wayne and Janet (Shaw) Hummel. Barbara was raised and educated in the Volga area. She graduated in 1972 from Central Community High School in Elkader.
After high school, Barbara worked at the HiWay Café in Strawberry Point. On April 29, 1979, she gave birth to her only child, Brian Hummel. Together they lived in rural Volga, and Barb worked at ATWOOD in West Union for 25 years. In her later life, she retired to the Oelwein area.

Barbara was a member of the Lutheran Church in Volga. She enjoyed sewing and reading books in her free time, but most of all she loved spoiling her grandchildren, great-nieces and nephews, and great-great niece, who she adored dearly.