Reilly, Lenice A. 1927-2003

REILLY, SHEEHAN, LADDUSAW

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, volunteer (email)
Date: 4/25/2009 at 17:20:32

Lenice A. Reilly, 76, of Sioux City died Thursday, Dec. 4, 2003, at Westwood Nursing Home.

Services will be 10 a.m. today at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church, with the Rev. Nickolas L. Becker officiating. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery. Arrangements are under the direction of Larkin Northside Funeral Home.

Mrs. Reilly was born Aug. 30, 1927, in Oyens, Iowa, the daughter of John and Loretta (Laddusaw) Sheehan. She graduated from Central High School in Sioux City in 1945.

She married Bernard J. Reilly on Oct. 10, 1953, at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Sioux City. She was a bookkeeper at Pilly's Creamery, Cudahy's Pack and Swifts in the late 1940s and 1950s. In 1966 she worked at the Sioux City Stockyards, first with Ingerson's Commission Firm, then with Switzer-Beasons, followed by Long and Hansen's and retired from Producers in 1985. Mr. Reilly died Aug. 29, 2003.

She was a member of Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church, Catholic Daughters of America-Court Ave Maria 26 and the Sioux City Stockettes. She had been a past member of the Cathedral choir and the Senior Citizen choir. She participated in one of the first Sioux City Sue contests and was an avid bowler. She enjoyed cross-stitch and her grandchildren.

She is survived by a daughter and her husband, Suzanne and Jim Hansen of Hawarden, Iowa; two sons and their wives, Robert and Cheryl Reilly of Spokane, Wash., and Marti and Mary Jo Reilly of Sioux City; six grandchildren, Katie, Anne and Tim Reilly, Kelly and Kyle Hansen and Karla and her husband, Scott Embrock; two sisters, Inez Myers and Mary Ann and her husband, Vernon Yates, all of Sioux City; and many nieces and nephews.

In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by her parents; six brothers, Estil, Leo, Wayne, Eugene, John and James Sheehan; and a daughter-in-law, Josephine Reilly.

Pallbearers will be her grandchildren.

~Source: The Sioux City Journal--part of the Darrell E. Obituary Collection