Wells Family - Person Sheet
Wells Family - Person Sheet
NameRudolph Frank "Rudy" Karnath 
Birth16 May 1916, Fountain City, Buffalo Co, WI
Census7 Apr 1930, Fountain City, Buffalo Co, WI
Memoroll#2563, pg 8
Census3 Apr 1940, Minneapolis, Hennepin Co, MN
Memoroll#1984, pg 2
Death29 Aug 1982, Oregon City, Clackamas Co, OR
MemoCert 82-12783
FatherCaptain Rudolph Jacob Karnath (1875-1961)
MotherIda Gottlieb Bensel (1879-1967)
Misc. Notes
He was still living at home with his parents in the 1930 census.
By 1940 he was married and living Minneapolis with his wife Flossie. He is listed as a riverboat deck hand (25, WI) and having completed 3 yrs of high school. His wife was a community nurse in Public Health (36, CAN) and completed 3 yrs of college. It says that he had been living in Wisconsin in 1935 and she in Jersey City, NJ and was naturalized.
He and wife Florence are listed in Minneapolis in the 1941 city directory, with him as a tankman, and her as a community health nurse.
Wife - Flossi, daughter - Betty (she and Mike Loken were raised like siblings until her family moved to Portland in the late 1950’s).
[Obituary] The Winona Daily News - Wed, 1 Sep 1982, pg 5
Rudolph F. Karnath
FOUNTAIN CITY, Wis. - Rudolph F. Karnath, 66, died Sunday evening (Aug. 29th, 1982) in an Oregon City, Ore., hospital after a brief illness.
A former river pilot, he was born May 16, 1916, in Fountain City, to Capt. Rudolph J. and Ida Bensel Karnath. On Jan. 20, 1940, he married Flossie Tripp in Minneapolis, where they lived for 18 years prior to moving to Oregon.
Survivors are: his wife; one daughter, Mrs. Darrell (Betty) Ferchland, Oregon; one brother , Walter, Winona; one sister, Mrs. Elmer (Beata) Loken; Grand Repids, Minn.; and two grandchildren.
His parents, two brothers and one sister have died.
Funeral services will be 11 a.m. today in Milwaukie Funeral Home, Milwaukie, Ore. The body will be cremated.
By 1940 he was married and living Minneapolis with his wife Flossie. He is listed as a riverboat deck hand (25, WI) and having completed 3 yrs of high school. His wife was a community nurse in Public Health (36, CAN) and completed 3 yrs of college. It says that he had been living in Wisconsin in 1935 and she in Jersey City, NJ and was naturalized.
He and wife Florence are listed in Minneapolis in the 1941 city directory, with him as a tankman, and her as a community health nurse.
Wife - Flossi, daughter - Betty (she and Mike Loken were raised like siblings until her family moved to Portland in the late 1950’s).
[Obituary] The Winona Daily News - Wed, 1 Sep 1982, pg 5
Rudolph F. Karnath
FOUNTAIN CITY, Wis. - Rudolph F. Karnath, 66, died Sunday evening (Aug. 29th, 1982) in an Oregon City, Ore., hospital after a brief illness.
A former river pilot, he was born May 16, 1916, in Fountain City, to Capt. Rudolph J. and Ida Bensel Karnath. On Jan. 20, 1940, he married Flossie Tripp in Minneapolis, where they lived for 18 years prior to moving to Oregon.
Survivors are: his wife; one daughter, Mrs. Darrell (Betty) Ferchland, Oregon; one brother , Walter, Winona; one sister, Mrs. Elmer (Beata) Loken; Grand Repids, Minn.; and two grandchildren.
His parents, two brothers and one sister have died.
Funeral services will be 11 a.m. today in Milwaukie Funeral Home, Milwaukie, Ore. The body will be cremated.
Spouses
Birth18 May 1905, Grenville Co, Ontario, Canada
Death31 Dec 1995, Lake Oswego, Clackamas Co, OR
MemoCert 95-27995
OccupationNurse
Misc. Notes
Dau of James Tripp and Lucy Ann Hindmarsh.
Listed as a roomer with the Dana family in Ogdensburg, NY in 1930, working as a Nurse in the hospital. She immigrated in 1926, and was not yet naturalized.
By 1940 she was married and living in Minneapolis as a community nurse in Public Health (36, CAN) and completed 3 yrs of college. It says that she was living in Jersey City, NJ in 1935, and was naturalized - 15 June 1940 in Minneapolis, MN.
Listed as a roomer with the Dana family in Ogdensburg, NY in 1930, working as a Nurse in the hospital. She immigrated in 1926, and was not yet naturalized.
By 1940 she was married and living in Minneapolis as a community nurse in Public Health (36, CAN) and completed 3 yrs of college. It says that she was living in Jersey City, NJ in 1935, and was naturalized - 15 June 1940 in Minneapolis, MN.
Marriage20 Jan 1940, Minneapolis, Hennepin Co, MN
ChildrenE. J. B. (Private)