Anne M. O’Rourke, 09 Jun 1924 – 04 Nov 2012

O’ROURKE, SIEREN, GREINER, BROADUS, HARTWIG, LENAGHAN, PEIFFER

Posted By: Sandy Ficken (email)
Date: 11/13/2012 at 14:08:47

Funeral Mass for Anne M. O’Rourke, 88, North English, was held at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 7, at St. Joseph Catholic Church, North English. She died Sunday, Nov. 4, 2012.

The Rev. Joseph Roost officiated at the service.

Burial was in Armah Cemetery, rural North English.

Memorials may be made to the North English QRS.

Powell Funeral Home, North English, was in charge of arrangements. Messages and tributes may be left at www.powellfuneralhomes.com .

Anne M. O’Rourke was born June 9, 1924, in the Clear Creek community near Keota, the daughter of Michael and Margaret Greiner Sieren. She attended school at Clear Creek.

She married Joseph Robert O’Rourke Nov. 28, 1946, at Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church. They lived in Keota for a year before moving to a farm near North English. They moved into town in 1980.

She worked 30 years at the English Valley Care Center. She enjoyed being on the farm, wintering in Arizona, gardening, playing cards, cooking and especially spending time with her family, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

O’Rourke is survived by her children, Joanne Broadus, Bob and Marty O’Rourke, North English; Tom and Maggie O’Rourke, Earlham, and Angie and Gregg Hartwig, Iowa City; 10 grandchildren; 8 great-grandchildren; two sisters, Corrine Lenaghan and Theresa Peiffer, and two sisters-in-law, Pat Sieren and Theresa O’Rourke.

She was preceded in death by her husband, in 2006; her parents; two daughters, Carolyn and Margaret O’Rourke; one granddaughter, Katelyn O’Rourke; one son-in-law, Jerry Broadus; eight brothers, infants Leo and Albert, Raymond, Carl, Leonard, Joe, Elmer and Paul Sieren, and one sister, Helen Sieren.

The Williamsburg Journal Tribune, Iowa County Obituaries , 08 Nov 2012, pg 12
The Gazette, 06 Nov 2012, 12a
The English Valleys Star, 07 Nov 2012, pg 4