Kathleen Lee Persinger 1959 - 2014
PERSINGER, CARTER, GRELL
Posted By: Connie Swearingen-Volunteer (email)
Date: 8/6/2014 at 21:52:39
Sioux City Journal
9 July 2014DENISON, Iowa | Kathleen Lee Persinger, 55, of Denison, formerly of Hornick, Iowa, died unexpectedly Sunday, July 6, 2014, at home.
Graveside services will be 11 a.m. Thursday in Grant Township Cemetery, rural Rodney, Iowa, with the Rev. Jena Manchester officiating. Visitation will be 5 to 8 p.m. today, with a prayer service at 7 p.m., at Rush Family Chapel in Onawa, Iowa.
Kathleen Lee was born March 18, 1959, in Sioux City, the daughter of Arnold John and Velma "Molly" (Carter) Grell. She grew up on a farm outside of Mapleton, Iowa, and graduated from Maple Valley Community High School in 1977.
Kathleen and Mark Persinger married Feb. 10, 1979, at St. Matthew Lutheran Church in Mapleton.
Kathleen worked as a teller for Toy National Bank in Sioux City, and then as a secretary for AGP, Sioux City for more than 10 years. She worked as a secretary for Empire Gas in Hornick for several years.
She was on the volunteer fire department while she and Mark lived in Morrill, Maine, from 1987 until 1991, until moving back to Hornick and recently to Denison. Kathleen was a member of Ticonic (Iowa) United Methodist Church.
She liked to cut wood and enjoyed spending time in the outdoors, gardening and tending to flowers.
Survivors include her husband, Mark Persinger of Denison, Iowa; children, Holly (Shawn) Myers of Smithland, Iowa, Candi (JLee) Gress of Sloan, Iowa, and Markie (Matt) Burton of Sloan; close family, Amy (Shawn) Larison of Wellington, Mo.; her grandchildren, Markes and Makenna Myers, Kali Jo Chapman, Jesse, Brady and Gracee Burton, and Isabella, Annabelle, Madelyn and Josephine Larison; her siblings, Cora (Jack) Howley of Del Rio, Texas, Arnold "Butch" (Charlene) Grell of Moville, Iowa, Sara (Rex) Persinger of Hornick, Willy (LuAnn) Grell of Whiting, Iowa, Velma (Tina) Grell of Onawa, and Eddie Grell of Soldier, Iowa; and mother- and father-in-law, Rex and Rose Marie Persinger of Hornick.
She was preceded in death by her parents; brother, Matt Grell; and sister, Bonnie Jacoby.
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