Smith, Celeste Masuen 1914-1999

SMITH, MASUEN, SWAIN, FETTES

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, volunteer (email)
Date: 2/27/2009 at 16:00:18

NAME OF DECEASED & AGE: Celeste Masuen Smith, 85, of Sioux City, IA
DATE OF DEATH: Saturday, July 24, 1999
PLACE OF DEATH: …at a Sioux City retirement community
CAUSE OF DEATH:
DATE OF BIRTH: April 9, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH: …on a farm at LeMars, Iowa
PARENTS: Clem and Katherine (Swain) Masuen (Katherine Swain Masuen died in 1916. Clem later married Josephine Fettes.)
SPOUSE & DATE & PLACE of 1st MARRIAGE: Roy G. Smith, Oct. 9, 1940, in Sioux City, Iowa
SPOUSE & DATE & PLACE of 2nd MARRIAGE: ---
OCCUPATION: The couple moved to Rockford, Ill., for 12 years and then returned to Sioux City. Mr. Smith died on Oct. 26, 1963, in Sioux City. She was employed in the poultry production department at Swift & Co. for 20 years. She retired in 1974.
SURVIVORS: …include two sons and their wives: Dale and Anne and John and RoxAnn, both of Sioux City; three daughters and their husbands: Evelyn and Neal Nordby of Papillion, Neb., Karen and Wayne Rieckmann of Kingsley, Iowa, and Mary P. and Richard Smith of San Ramon, Calif.; 12 grandchildren; two great grandchildren; a brother and his wife, Vincent and Mary Masuen of Oyens, Iowa; a sister, Catherine Evans of LeMars; and a brother-in-law, Joe Heuertz of Remsen, Iowa.
MEMBER OF: St. Boniface Catholic Church
PRECEDED in DEATH by: …two sisters, Margaret Evans and Marie Heuertz; a granddaughter, Holly K. Smith; two brothers-in-law, Myron Evans and Arnold Evans; and a half-brother and a half-sister in infancy.
PLACE OF BURIAL: St. Catherine’s Cemetery, Oyens, Iowa
NEWSPAPER SOURCE & DATE: The Sioux City Journal

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