Graff, Dorothy M. 1922-2004

GRAFF, RICHTERS, HENKE

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, Volunteer (email)
Date: 8/10/2008 at 21:42:50

Dorothy M. Graff

HOSPERS, Iowa -- Dorothy M. Graff, 82, of Hospers passed away Sunday, May 16, 2004, at Harvest Morningside Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Sioux City.

Services will be 3 p.m. Thursday at St. Anthony's Catholic Church in Hospers, with Monsignor Kenneth Seifried officiating. Burial will be in St. Anthony's Catholic Cemetery. Visitation will be after 5 p.m. today, with the family present 5 to 7 p.m., and a rosary at 7 p.m., at Oolman Funeral Home in Hospers.

Dorothy MaryAlice was born Feb. 15, 1922, in Akron, Iowa, the daughter of Dick and Emma (Henke) Richters. She was raised in Akron and attended Catholic elementary school.

On Nov. 11, 1938, she married Joseph F. Graff in Hospers. They lived in Hospers, where she was a homemaker. Later, they moved to Gordon, Neb. Mr. Graff passed away Jan. 10, 1989, in Gordon. For the past nine and one half years, she was a resident of Harvest Nursing and Rehabilitation Center.

She enjoyed making crafts, baking cookies and playing cards and bingo.

Survivors include three daughters, Rita and her husband, Jerome Klein of Hospers, Carol and her husband, Orval Stone of Sioux City and Lorraine Dawdy of Onawa, Iowa; two sons and their wives, John and Sharon Graff of Grand Island, Neb., and Ted and Mary Graff of Sioux City; 20 grandchildren; 39 great-grandchildren; and a sister and her husband, Frances and Kenneth Meade of Davenport, Iowa.

In addition to her parents and husband, she was preceded in death by two daughters, Mary Way and Josephine Graff; a son, Fredrick Graff; a son-in-law, Dean Dawdy; a great-granddaughter; five brothers, Clarence, Fred, Henry, George and Richard Richters; and three sisters, Helen Martin, Esther Beeck and Bernice Vander Ham.

~Source: The Sioux City Journal, May 19, 2004--part of the D. Easton Obituary Collection