Doris Mildred Kadlub 1919-2009

KADLUB ABEL HALL

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 10/24/2009 at 20:04:48

Sioux City Journal
1 Apr 2009

WHITING, Iowa - Doris M. Kadlub, 89, of Whiting passed away Sunday, March 29, 2009, at the Pleasant View Care Center, Whiting.

Services will be 1 p.m. Friday at First Congregational Church in Whiting, with the Rev. Reva Karstens offficiating. Burial will be in the Whiting Cemetery. Visitation will be 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday, with the family present 6 to 8 p.m., and a prayer service at 7 p.m., at the Pearson Funeral Home in Onawa, Iowa.

Doris Mildred Kadlub, daughter of Everett and Grayce (Abel) Hall, was born Aug. 21, 1919, in Whiting. She grew up on a farm north of Whiting and lived her entire adult life in the town of Whiting. She graduated from Whiting High School in 1938 and Morningside College in 1942. On April 23, 1947, Doris married Frank J. Kadlub in Whiting. They had two daughters, Linda and Janice.

Doris worked for the Army Corps of Engineers while the Air Force Base in Sioux City was being built, then transferred to Post Engineers. She worked as a Cost Accountant until the end of World War II when the base was closed. When it reopened in 1952, Doris was rehired and worked until it closed again in 1968 in the positions of Accounting Specialist, Deputy Accounting and Finance Officer and Disbursing Agent. She worked shortly for the Woodbury County Department of Social Services, then worked for nine years as a civilian supply clerk for the Iowa Air National Guard before retiring in 1980.

Doris was a 50-year member of First Congregational Church (UCC) of Whiting, the Whiting Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star, and a 50-year member of the Emery Johnson Post 481, American Legion Auxiliary. She was a Sunday school teacher, a dedicated American Cancer Society volunteer, who spearheaded the sale of daffodils in Whiting for many years, as well as a volunteer with the Whiting Library and the Whiting Community School Book Sale program. She also volunteered for many organizations in which her children were involved.

Doris is survived by daughter Linda Kadlub and Donald Davis of Severn, Md.; daughter Janice Klimiades and her husband George of Whiting; granddaughter Amanda Ham and her husband Cullen; and great-grandchildren Jayson and Alexxa Ham of Onawa; and many cousins, nieces, nephews and friends.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Frank, in 1985, her mother and father, and three sisters: Winifred Hall, Pauline, Smith and Bernice Vaughan.