DIRKS, Dorothy 1923-2002

DIRKS, ROSAUER, BEDARD, KLEIN

Posted By: Tammy (email)
Date: 1/29/2017 at 08:14:10

Dorothy M. Dirks, 78

Dorothy M. Dirks, 78, of Reinbeck, died January 6 at the Covenant Medical Center. A Funeral Liturgy will be celebrated on January 9 at the Mary Queen of Heaven Catholic Church in Reinbeck. A memorial fund is being established.

Born on August 27, 1923, in Morse, Dorothy was the daughter of William C. and Margaret B. (Bedard) Rosauer. She grew up in the area of her birth and graduated from Sacred Heart Catholic School with the Class of 1940. She was united in marriage to Vern F. Klein in 1944. Later that same year, Vern was killed in combat during WWII. In 1946, she later married LeRoy J. Dirks. She worked as a secretary at the Dirks Insurance Agency.

She was preceded in death by her husband; her parents; a sister; three brothers; and an infant granddaughter.

Surviving are two daughters; a son; five grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.

--The Grundy Register (Grundy Center, Iowa), 10 January 2002, pg 3