LaVeda Deon Dose 1931 - 2013
DOSE, WONDER, CLAUSEN
Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 5/22/2013 at 09:56:45
Sioux City Journal
19 May 2013MAPLETON, Iowa | LaVeda D. Dose, 82, of Mapleton passed away Thursday, May 16, 2013, at a Sioux City hospital.
Services will be 10:30 a.m. Monday at St. Matthew Lutheran Church in Mapleton, with the Rev. Scott Jensen officiating. Burial will be in Mt. Hope Cemetery at Mapleton. Visitation will be after 4:30 p.m. today, with a prayer service at 7 p.m., at Armstrong Funeral Home in Mapleton. Visitation resumes 9 a.m. until service time Monday at the church.
LaVeda Deon Dose was born March 20, 1931, in Sioux City, the eldest daughter of Albert and Goldie (Clausen) Wonder. The family lived at Correctionville, Iowa, where LaVeda started school. At age 12, she moved with her parents and sister to Danbury, Iowa, when her father started farming. LaVeda completed her formal education there.
While living in the community, LaVeda met Gilbert George Dose. The couple were married Oct. 29, 1950, the first wedding in the new St. Matthew Lutheran Church in Mapleton. Gilbert and LaVeda lived, farmed and raised their children near Danbury on the family farm on the hill west. LaVeda cherished her years with her husband and family life on the farm. Gilbert passed away Feb. 22, 1997. LaVeda later moved to Mapleton.
She was a member of St. Matthew Lutheran Church, having been baptized in May of 1944 and confirmed into the Lutheran faith on April 7, 1950.
Family members left to treasure their memories of LaVeda include one son, Paul and Donna Dose of Danbury, Iowa; two daughters, Susan and Rob Kliever of Spirit Lake, Iowa, and Cathy Dose of Onawa, Iowa; five grandchildren, Nate Kliever and Stephanie Bohan, Tanya Branhann and her husband Mike, Michelle Weber and her husband Brett, Dennis Boysen and his wife Jennifer, and Ryan Boysen and his wife Stacey; eight great-grandchildren, Draven Olson, Ashlynn Struve, Tristin and Trey Boysen, Lexi, Claire, and Bradyn Weber, Lauren Boysen and one Kliever great-granddaughter on the way; one sister, LaVonne Keleher and husband Ronald of Sioux City; and multiple other extended family members.
Along with her husband, LaVeda was preceded in death by her parents.
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