Mulfinger, Iris M. 1918-1990

MULFINGER, WILLITS, HONEYMAN

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Date: 11/10/2018 at 20:37:38

Iris M. Mulfinger

Iris M. Mulfinger, 71, of Sioux City, died Saturday, Jan. 6, 1990, at a Sioux City hospital. She had long been ill with a heart condition.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Westminster Presbyterian Church, with the Rev. Terry and Marsha Webster officiating. Burial will be in Westfork Township Cemetery in Climbing Hill. Visitation will be from 1-9 p.m., led by Dr. Robert E. Peters of Elliott Creek Presbyterian Church, Bronson.

Mrs. Mulfinger, the former Iris Honeyman, was born March 18, 1918, in New Boston, Ill. She attended Ottuwa (Illinois) High School and Wayne (Nebraska) State College, graduating from Sioux City’s Morningside College in 1966. She married Tom Willits in 1937 in Geneseo, Ill., and Charles D. Mulfinger in 1944 in Moline, Ill. She had moved to Climbing Hill around 1937 and into Sioux City about 1958.

She began a teaching career in western Nebraska in 1956. After returning to Sioux City in 1958, she taught here, in Westfield and in Lawton-Bronson, retiring in 1978 after 22 years of teaching.

She was a member of Westminster Presbyterian Church. She belonged to the Aerospace Civil Air Patrol, the Woodbury County Geneological Society, and was past president of Alpha Delta Kappa teaching sorority. She authored “Country Kitchen News”, a newsletter she began publishing in 1951.

Survivors include her husband; two sons and daughters-in-law, Jim & leola Willits of Bronson and Steve & KeeAnn Mulfinger of Hornick; 10 grandchildren and their families, Barbara & David Connolly of Albuquerque, N.M., Audrey & Derald Wright of Lincoln, Neb., David & Anthea Mays of Sioux City, Terry Willits of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Christine Willits of Phoenix, Ariz., Jim Willits of Bronson, and Taylor, David, Evan and Dylan Mulfinger, all of Hornick; two great-grandsons and their families, Johathan & Stephanie Wright of Lincoln and Anthony & Catherine Connolly of Albuquerque; a brother and his wife, George & Ella Honeyman of New Boston.

She was preceded in death by her parents; an infant son, Charles; a daughter, Helen Willits Mays, a sister and two brothers.

Sioux City Journal
Sunday, January 7, 1990
Sioux City, Iowa