Memorial services for Evelyth Worsech will be held at 10 a.m. on Friday, August 5, 2011 from Gloria Dei Lutheran Church in Redwood Falls with Pastor Joy Ekstedt officiating. Burial of cremains will follow in the Redwood Falls Cemetery. Evelyth Worsech of Florence, Massachusetts and formerly of Redwood Falls, died October 16, 2008 at the age of 96.

Arrangements are with Nelson-Martin Funeral Service of Redwood Falls. E-mail condolences may be sent via www.nelsonmartinfuneralservice.com.

Evelyth Ardelle Worsech, the daughter of Otto and Anna (Nelson) Ruud, was born October 11, 1912 in Brookfield, Minnesota. She grew up in Brookfield, Bird Island and rural Fairfax. Evelyth graduated from Fairfax High School in 1929 and then attended Normal Teachers’ Training in Redwood Falls for one year. Her first job was as the teacher of the one-room schoolhouse at Fort Ridgely. Evelyth then attended Winona State Teacher’s College. After she graduated from Winona in 1934, she taught grades one through four in the North Redwood Public School.

On December 25, 1937, Evelyth married Bernard “Doc” Worsech in Marshall and they settled in Redwood Falls. Evelyth retired from school teaching in the spring of 1938. She became assistant librarian at the Redwood Falls Public Library in 1956 and was appointed head librarian in 1958. It was a job she loved and she worked there until her retirement in 1974. Evelyth was an active member of Gloria Dei Lutheran Church; she belonged to the Martha Circle and was a part of the quilting group. Evelyth also belonged to the Twentieth Century Study Club. From 1981 until 1989, she and Bernard spent May through September at their home on Lake Superior near Grand Marais. Bernard died in August 1989 and, in 2002, Evelyth moved to her daughter’s home in Massachusetts.

She is survived by her daughter Dana Worsech Pasquale of Northampton, Massachusetts; her grandchildren Andrew Pasquale and his wife Molly of Holyoke, Massachusetts, and Matthew Pasquale and his wife Karen of Springfield, Massachusetts; and her great-grandchildren River and Sage Sackett Pasquale of Holyoke. Also surviving are her nieces Emily Phillips of Seattle, Washington, Nancy Philips of Philomath, Oregon, and Mary Phillips of Redwood Falls; and her nephews George Phillips of Kansas, and Thomas Phillips of Minneapolis. She was preceded in death by her husband; her sister Selma Wething; her sister-in-law Alice Phillips; and her close friends James and Elvera Otto.

Blessed be her memory.