Raymond Arthur Nuzum (2018)

BRADFORD, BROWN, CARSTENS, COOK, DECKER, HAYDEN, HENSON, JOHNSON, MICHAELS, MOLLN, NUZUM, ROGNEHAUGH, RUSH, TAYLOR, WALSH, WATERS

Posted By: Shirley Keating
Date: 11/8/2023 at 18:02:52

Ochiltree Funeral Service
Winterset, Iowa

Raymond Nuzum
January 11th, 1936 - November 22nd, 2018

Raymond A. Nuzum, 82, of Winterset died Thursday, November 22, 2018, at the Madison County Memorial Hospital in Winterset.

A visitation will be held from 3 to 7 p.m., Tuesday, November 27, 2018, at Ochiltree Funeral Service, where family will be present to receive friends from 5 to 7 p.m. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m., Wednesday, November 28, at the Jackson Building, Madison County Fair Grounds with burial to follow in the Winterset Cemetery. Memorials may be directed to the EveryStep Hospice and/or the Redeemer Church of Winterset.

Raymond Arthur Nuzum was born at home near St. Charles, Iowa on January 11, 1936 to Russell A. & Vivian “Esther” (Rush) Nuzum. He attended country school and began high school in St. Charles. Ray’s sister Marge & husband, Harland asked Ray to help with their farming work, the summer before his junior year of high school. He stayed with them throughout his high school years and graduated from Buffalo Center, Iowa in 1954. He met and married Mary Fern Henson of Winterset on November 17, 1956. Four children were born to this union. He was blessed with a beautiful voice and sang for many weddings and funerals. The family enjoyed many camping vacations in national parks.

Ray always worked multiple jobs at the same time: Martin Brother’s gas station, Wonder Bread (baking & a route), Bussanmus Tire, farming & mechanic work. His main job was working for the D.O.T. for 34 years. He retired to care for Mary Fern who was terminally ill.

Eight years later, he married Dayna Decker Nuzum on June 28, 2008. Ray was a faithful husband who cared for and helped family and friends his entire life. He was a Mason in Evening Star Lodge #43 in Winterset, Iowa for 39 years. He conducted many Masonic Funerals. Ray and Dayna attended The Redeemer Church. They also spent their winters at Fiesta Village in Mission, Texas.

He is survived by his wife, Dayna.; Children, Russell Nuzum of St. Charles, Raye DeLynne (Patrick) Cook of Winterset, Shelley (Larry) Molln of Winterset, Brett Nuzum (Gloria Waters) of Winterset; Stepchildren, Jovetta “Joy” (Dennis) Brown of Shannon City, Fonda (Jason) Bradford of Chariton, Curtis (Jerri) Decker of Afton; Sisters, Charlotte Rognehaugh of Nashville, Tennessee and Carolyn Taylor of Solon, Iowa; twelve grandchildren; twenty-one great grandchildren; one great-great grandchild; nine step grandchildren and fourteen step great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by: his parents; sisters, Alixe Carstens, Kathleen Walsh, Mary Michaels, Marge Johnson and Corleen Hayden; a brother, Richie Nuzum; a grandson, Joshua Cook and a great-granddaughter, Audrey Nuzum.

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