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Rita (Schleis) Bode 1922 - 2016

SCHLEIS, BODE, GOTTO

Posted By: Connie swearingen- Volunteer (email)
Date: 8/15/2016 at 16:49:35

Sioux City Journal
8 July 2016

SIOUX CITY | Rita (Schleis) Bode, 94, of Sioux City, formerly from Sergeant Bluff, passed away Wednesday, July 6, 2016, at a Sioux City hospital.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Salix, Iowa, with the Rev. Mark Stoll officiating. Private family graveside services will be at a later date in Mapleton Cemetery, Mapleton, Iowa. Visitation will be 9:30 a.m. until service time Saturday at the church. Arrangements are under the direction of Waterbury Funeral Service of Sergeant Bluff.

Rita was born on July 5, 1922, in Mapleton, Iowa, the daughter of George and Josephine (Gotto) Schleis. Rita grew up in Mapleton and graduated from Mapleton High School in 1940.

On April 15, 1953, she married Carl Bode at St. Mary's Church in Mapleton. They had five children. The couple mainly made their home in Sergeant Bluff and Rita spent 12 years working at the Airport Inn and babysitting her grandchildren.

She was a member of St. Joseph Catholic Church, the Tabernacle Society, Carmelite Guild and Sergeant Bluff Senior Center.

Survivors include one daughter and three sons, Carla (Don) Cleveland of Sergeant Bluff, John (Jill) Bode of Sergeant Bluff, Dan of Sloan, Iowa, and Jim of Fayetteville, Ark.; 12 grandchildren, Jason Cleveland, (special friend, Nicole Schweitzberger), Misti (Sergio) Ceriani, Dusty (Megan) Cleveland, Brook Cleveland, Taryn (Wes) Sudman, Shane Bode, Traci Bode, Brett Bode, Angie Bode, Justin (Kianne) Bode, Jordan Bode and Jessica Bode; four great-grandchildren, Madison Ceriani, Bailey Cleveland, Kaden Nosbisch and Kitana Bode; and numerous nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by a son, Doug; her husband, Carl; four brothers; two sisters; three sisters-in-law; and two brothers-in-law.


 

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