Funeral service for Catherine Armstrong, 90, of Buffalo Center, was held Monday, May 16, at the United Methodist Church in Buffalo Center with Rev. Lois Abel offi­ciating. Burial was at Olena Mound Cemetery, Buffalo Center, with Winter Funeral
Home in charge of arrangements.
Anna Catherine, daughter of Charles and Dicy (Smouse) Rhubee, was born April 9, 1915, northeast of Buffalo Center, on
a farm in Winnebago County. She died Thursday, May I2, 2005, at Timely Mission Nursing Home in Buffalo Center.
In 1920, their family moved to a farm at Raymond, Minn., where Catherine attended rural school and graduated from
Raymond High School with the class of 1933.
On February 12, 1936, she was united in marriage with Royal Armstrong. They lived in the Clara City-Willmar area of Minnesota until 1946, when they moved to Buffalo Center. The Armstrongs owned and operated a repair shop for many years.
Catherine was a member of the United Methodist Church in Buffalo Center, the Unite Methodist Women, Mary Circle, and was a member of the Buffalo Center public library for 26 years. Catherine was employed at Fleetguard in Lake Mills for 21 years, retiring in 1980.
Catherine is survived by her son, Charles Armstrong and his wife, Marcy of Buffalo Center; a daughter-in-law, Sandy Armstrong of Buffalo Center; seven grandchildren, Scott (Shelley) Armstrong, Tracy (Jacqueline) Armstrong, James (Robin) Armstrong, Troy (Sue: Armstrong, Barb (Rick) Hofbauer, Paul (Julie) Armstrong and Kelly Armstrong and her fiancee Justin Lugar; 12 great-grandchildren; one great-great granddaughter; a sister, Darlene Kinkead of Apopka, Fla.; an aunt, Regina Danger of Buffalo Center; an uncle Elmer Rhubee of Buffalo Center; four step-sisters, Grace Bosma and Elvera Hanson of Buffalo Center, Jennie Grothe of Lake Mills, and Lois Teigen of Kingman, Ariz.; and many nieces, and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Royal in 1973; a son, Robert in 2004: brother, Gerald Rhubee; and, step-sister, Wilma Stewart.