Cliff, Mrs. Jessie Dorr 1893-1986

JACKSON, DORR, CLIFF

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, volunteer (email)
Date: 11/24/2011 at 18:02:19

JESSIE DORR CLIFF

LE MARS, Iowa—Jessie Dorr Cliff, 92, of Glendale, Ariz., formerly of LeMars, died Monday in a care center at Glendale.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday in Mauer-Johnson Funeral Home in LeMars. The Rev. Robert Robinson will officiate. Burial will be in LeMars Memorial Cemetery. Family visitation will be from 7-8:30 p.m. today in the funeral home.

Mrs. Cliff, the former Jessie Jackson, was born Dec. 8, 1893, at Seney. She married Lester Dorr Sept. 14, 1914, at LeMars. He died in 1965. She married Ernest Cliff in November 1968 at Partyville, Wis. He died in 1973. For 17 years she was in the catering business in LeMars.

Mrs. Cliff was a member of First United Methodist church in LeMars and was an honorary member of LeMars Sunshine Club.

Survivors include a son, Eugene Dorr of Glendale; a daughter Mrs. Reece (Dorothy) Franklin of Wenden, Ariz.; five stepsons, Donald and Ferrell Cliff, both of Sioux City, and Melvin, Eugene and Myron Cliff, all of Wisconsin; two stepdaughters, Mrs. Harry (Shirley) Glen of Santa Barbara, Calif., and Mrs. Robert (Radora) Gray of Portage, Wis.; four grandchildren; seven great grandchildren and 23 step-grandchildren.