Graham, Margaret G. 1903-1997

GRAHAM, HURT

Posted By: Barbara Krogh (email)
Date: 12/14/2003 at 14:45:40

Sioux City Journal
Thurs., May 8, 1997

Margaret G. Graham, 93, of rural Sioux City died Sunday, May 4, 1997, at a Sioux City hospital following a brief illness.

Services will be at 11:30 a.m. Friday at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church, with the Rev. Thomas E. Geelan officiating. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery. Visitation will be from 2 to 9 p.m. today, with the family present from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. and a vigil service at 7 p.m., at the Meyer Brothers Colonial Chapel.

Mrs. Graham was born Sept. 18, 1903, near Hinton, Iowa, the daughter of Oscar and Genevieve (Hurt) Crouch. She graduated from Central High School in Sioux City.

She married Leo Graham on Aug. 20, 1924, in Sioux City. She resided in the Perry Township, Plymouth County all her life. He died in November 1973.

Survivors include two daughters, Ruth Lill of Cushing, Iowa and Joyce and her husband Bill Wilsbacher of rural Hinton, Iowa; a son and his wife, Norman and Carol of rural Sioux City; a brother and his wife, Lloyd and Audry Crouch of Le Mars, Iowa; 18 grandchildren; 30 great-grandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by a daughter, Geraldine Allen; and a sister, Gladys Swanson.

Pallbearers will be Brad, Dennis and Richard Allen, Daryle Saltzgiver, Steve and Wayne Hoppe, Larry Vondrak, and Perry Pinkerton.