Ardes Walz




 

 

Ardes Rosemond Walz, 91, died Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2014 in Sun City West, Ariz.

A Celebration of Life will be held Saturday, Aug. 1, 2015 at 1 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church in Pipestone.

Ardes was born on June 15, 1923 in Canton, S.D. She attended the University of South Dakota and then completed her diploma in nursing at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester. She was a surgical nurse in Los Angeles, Calif., prior to moving back to Sioux Falls, S.D.

After her marriage to Will Walz, she moved to Pipestone and later became the school nurse. Ardes eventually won a Bush Scholarship and finished her degree in Public Health Nursing at the University of Minnesota and then began a pursuit of her Masters in Nursing.

In 2000, Ardes and Will retired to Arizona.

She is survived by her husband of 64 years, Will; daughters, Lorrie (Jim) Larson, Marcia (Gary) Krasicky, son, Scott (Cindee) Walz; three grandsons and a sister, Norma Wadsworth.