Clasen, Dorothy 1921-1984

CLASEN, DIEDIKER

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, volunteer (email)
Date: 1/22/2008 at 19:26:07

DOROTHY CLASEN

Graveside service will be at 4:30 p.m. Saturday, April 21, at LeMars Memorial Cemetery for Dorothy Clasen, 62, who died April 6, 1984, at Long Beach Veterans Hospital, Long Beach, Calif., after a long illness.

Rev. Gary J. Frahm, of Sioux City, will officiate for committal of ashes. Burial will be under the direction of the Luedtke-Feuerstein Funeral Home.

Miss Clasen left LeMars a year and a half ago to reside at Los Angeles VA Hospice and to be near a sister, Eleanor Page, at Huntington Beach, Calif.

Dorothy Alice Clasen, daughter of Herman and Pearl Diediker Clasen, was born Sept. 22, 1921, in LeMars. She graduated from LeMars High School in 1939 and received a graduate nurse diploma in 1944 and bachelor of science degree in 1947 from the University of Iowa, Iowa City.

She also earned a public health nurse certificate from the University of California and master of nursing degree from the University of Washington, Seattle, in 1969.

Miss Clasen was a member of the National Honor Society of Nursing Sigma Theta Tau, was granted a U.S. traineeship for graduate study in 1958 and received a World Health Organization fellowship for study in London in 1966.

She served in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps Reserve during World War II with duty in the Philippines in 1945. She was recalled to the U.S. Air Force Nurse Corps Reserve during the Korean War. She was medically retired in 1952 as a first lieutenant.

In addition she was a public health nurse in San Marin County, Calif., and city health departments, Long Beach public school nurse in 1953, military hospital staff member and air evacuation nurse.

In 1966, Miss Clasen went to Washington D.C. where she was assistant professor of public health nursing at Catholic University of America.

Miss Clasen returned to LeMars in 19__ to make her home. She was a member of St. George’s Episcopal Church and was active in veteran organizations and in assisting veterans.

Surviving are one sister, Mrs. Kenneth Page, Huntington Beach, Calif., and two brothers, Robert of LeMars and Stanley, of Washington D.C.

~Source: LeMars Sentinel, April 12, 1984
~Date of Death: April 6, 1984