DONNOR, Dottie Alice 1893-1977

DONNOR, BRANNER, FAULKNER, BARROWS, SIRDOREUS

Posted By: Richard K Thompson (email)
Date: 8/10/2010 at 20:04:39

Fairfield Ledger
Monday, Feb.20, 1977

D. DONNOR Rites Set

Dottie Alice DONNOR, 84, native of Fairfield, died at 3:40 p.m. Sunday at the Jefferson County Hospital where she had been a patient since Feb. 11.

Services will be Wednesday, Feb. 23, at 1:30 p.m. at the Raymond Funeral Home with Pastor Paul Vaughan officiating. Interment will be in Fairfield Cemetery (sic. Old Fairfield Cemetery, not Evergreen Cemetery).

Dottie Alice DONNOR was born Feb. 7, 1893, in Fairfield, the daughter of William and Alice E. BRANNER FAULKNER. She was reared by Mr. and Mrs. Henry BARROWS (sic - BARROW) and educated in Fairfield.

She was married to Carl SIRDOREUS in 1912 at Fairfield. He died in 1916. She was later married to the Rev. Thomas DONNOR who also preceded her in death.

Mrs. DONNOR was a registered nurse, attended Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, and was employed by a security company in Evanston, Ill., for a number of years before returning to Fairfield to make her home. She operated her own private investigative service from 1954 until her health forced her retirement.

She is survived by one son, Earl SIRDOREUS, Chicago; five grandchildren and fur great-grandchildren; and a brother, Lloyd FAULKNER, Yuma, Arizona. She was preceded in death by two sisters.

*Transcribed for genealogy purposes. I am not related to the person(s) mentioned.

Note:
Can be found listed as either Dottie Alice FAULKNER BARROWS DONNOR or Dottie Alice FAULKNER BARROWS SIRDOREUS.

Buried at Old Fairfield Cemetery in Fairfield, Iowa. Lot 136. Dottie is buried in this plot with her first husband, Carl SIRDOREUS and they share a common SIRDOREUS headstone. Dottie's adoptive parents, Henry and Jemima "Minnie" Barrow, are buried in the adjacent lot #133.

The burial location of Rev. Thomas DONNOR is not disclosed in this obituary.