Dorothy E. Graff Died 2000

GRAFF KLEIN NEY

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 2/15/2010 at 23:48:42

Sioux City Journal
7 January 2000

Onawa, Iowa—Dorothy E. Graff, 90, of Onawa died Wednesday, January 5, 2000 at St Joseph Hospital in Omaha.

Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at St. John Catholic Church in Onawa, with the Rev. Frank Nemmers officiating. Burial will be in Onawa Cemetery. Visitation will begin at 5 p.m. today, with a Scriptural wake service at 7:30 p.m. at Rush Family Care Service in Onawa.

Mrs. Graff was born in Granville, Iowa, the daughter of John and Mary (Klein) Ney.

She married Clarence N. Graff on June 7, 1927, in Granville. The lived in Lake View and Orange City, Iowa, before moving to Onawa in 1943. The couple developed Graff Tax Service in Onawa. He died July 20, 1971.

She was a member of St. John Catholic Church.

Survivors include a daughter and her husband, Joan and Dr. William Samson of Onawa; two sons, Stephen and his wife, Bernadine of Elm Grove, Wis. And William of San Diego; a son-in-law, Richard Donovan of Omaha; 29 grandchildren; 47 great-grandchildren; four sisters, Marie Meinen of Ashton, Iowa, Colleen Penning of Spirit Lake, Iowa, Rosalia and Frances Koob, both of Granville; five brothers, Joseph of Sheldon, Iowa, and Theodore, Lawrence, Anthony and John, all of Granville; and a brother-in-law, Kenneth Graff of Lakeview, California.

She was preceded in death by a daughter, Renee Donavan; two brothers and a sister.

Memorials may be directed to St. John Catholic Church, 1009 13th st., Onawa, Iowa 51040 or Multiple Sclerosis Society, 7101 Newport Ave., Suite 203, Omaha, Ne. 68152.