Lloyd Leonard Rugen

Background

Rugen, Lloyd Leonard was born on March 22, 1917 in Syracuse, Missouri, United States. Son of August Fred and Grace (Billingsley) Rugen.

Education

Graduated from the high school, Columbia, Missouri, 1957.

Career

Tractor operator, Bureau Reclamation/Department of Interior, Heber, Willard, Utah., 1938-1940; farmer, Pleasant Green, Missouri, 1940; farmer, Prairie Home, Missouri, since 1945.

Achievements

• Lloyd Leonard Rugen has been listed as a noteworthy Farmer by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member of executive board Concord Baptist Association, 1950-1957, 59-, committee chairman, 1961-1971, seminary extension committee, 1972-1977. Deacon Woldridge Baptist Church, 1969. With United States Army, 1941-1945, European Theatre of Operations/Africa-Middle Eastern Theatre of Operations.

Member American Legion (historian 1954, commander 1955, post adjutant since 1956, vice commander 8th district department of Missouri 1956-1957, commander 8th district 1957-1958, chaplain 8th district since 1966, sergeant-at-arms 1954-1956.

Interests

• Avocation: hunting.

Connections

Married Anna Lewis Kueffer, March 22, 1947 (deceased December 1984). 1 child, Lewis Leonard.

Father:

August Fred Rugen

Mother:

Grace (Billingsley) Rugen

Spouse:

Anna Lewis Kueffer

child:

Lewis Leonard Rugen