Orr, Minnie M. 1921-2000

ORR, BETSWORTH, HOXIE

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, volunteer (email)
Date: 8/27/2008 at 19:11:09

NAME OF DECEASED & AGE: Minnie Mae Orr, 78, of Sioux City
CAUSE OF DEATH: …following a brief illness
DATE OF DEATH: Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2000
PLACE OF DEATH: …at a Sioux City hospital
DATE OF BIRTH: June 18, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH: LeMars, Iowa
PARENTS: Ralph Lester and Frances Mattie (Hoxie) Betsworth
SPOUSE & DATE & PLACE of 1st MARRIAGE: Ward Wesley Orr, March 22, 1921 (sic ?), in Dakota City, Nebraska [that year of marriage cannot be correct as printed in the obituary]
SPOUSE & DATE & PLACE of 2nd MARRIAGE:
OCCUPATION: She was employed as a cook with Sunrise Manor, the Normandy, and Central High School. She retired in 1985.
SURVIVORS: …include three sons and their wives, Ward and Sandy, Wesley and Sandra, and Jerry and Gay, all of Sioux City; two daughters and their husbands, Nancy and Russell McKinney of California, and Connie and Theodore Streeter of Dakota Dunes; a brother and his wife, Ralph “Bud” and Dorothy Betsworth of Sioux City; three sisters and their husbands, Frances and John Bower, of Salix, Iowa, Ruth and Henry Weis of Dakota Dunes, and Margie and Bob McKenna of Sioux City; 16 grandchildren; 32 great grandchildren; and three great great grandchildren.
PRECEDED in DEATH by: …her parents; a brother, Donald Betsworth; a sister, LaVonne Freemark; a grandson, Ward Orr Jr.; and a great grandson.
PLACE OF BURIAL: Memorial Park Cemetery, Sioux City, Iowa
NEWSPAPER SOURCE & DATE: The Sioux City Journal

~Partial Obituary--documenting the pertinent details from the obituary content
~Part of the Darrell E. Obituary Collection
~Note: Per SSDI online the date of birth and date of death given in this obituary is correct. The marriage date is apparently not correct.