Bandy, Mrs. Paul (Josephine) 1916-2002

BANDY, OMEARA, DOWNS, LAVELLE, LEONBURGER, PETTERSON, GOERGEN, NEY, CONWAY, GRAFF, DUNKESON

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Josephine (O'Meara) Bandy

Posted: Sunday, December 15, 2002 Sioux City Journal, Sioux City, Woodbury, Iowa, USA

HAWARDEN, Iowa -- Josephine (O'Meara) Bandy, 86, of Hawarden, formerly of Dallas, Texas, died Friday, Dec. 13, 2002, at Happy Siesta Nursing Home in Remsen, Iowa.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at St. Mary Catholic Church in Hawarden, with the Rev. Le Roy Seuntjens officiating. Burial will be in Grace Hill Cemetery. Visitation will begin at noon today, with a rosary at 5 p.m. and a prayer service at 7 p.m., all at Porter Funeral Home in Hawarden.

Josephine Bandy was born March 20, 1916, at Ireton, Iowa, the daughter of James and Joanna (Downs) O'Meara. She attended country school and Hawarden High School, graduating in May 1934. She then attended Normal Training at Morningside College in Sioux City and taught country school for two years. In 1938 she started working for J.S. Lerner's Vogue Women's Wear. In 1949 she moved to Dallas and continued in the women's ready-to-wear business. She started her own answering service in Dallas in 1963.

She married Paul Bandy in 1977. Paul passed away in July 1987.

Jo was a member of St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church, the Altar Society and St. Martin de Pores Circle in Dallas. In February 2002, Jo moved to Iowa and had been a resident of Happy Siesta Nursing Home in Remsen.

Survivors include two brothers, John O'Meara and his wife, Mary of De Kalb, Ill., and Bob O'Meara of Sioux Falls, S.D.; two sisters, Catherine La Velle of Sioux City, and Pauline Petterson of Wichita, Kan.; a brother-in-law, Norbert Goergen of Granville, Iowa; and many nephews and nieces.

In addition to her parents and her husband, Jo was preceded in death by six sisters, Durette Ney, Eva Conway, Bess Leonberger, Irene Graff, Cele Goergen and Helen Dunkeson; and five brothers, Leonard, Francis, Clint, Mike and Paul.