Dorothy (Sorber) Bennett (1917-2010)

BENNETT, SORBER, ALSEVER, TEGELS, RONEY, TRUEBLOOD

Posted By: Nevada Journal
Date: 11/8/2010 at 07:09:57

THE NEVADA JOURNAL, Nevada, Story County, Iowa, Thursday, November 4, 2010.

Dorothy Bennett, 93, of Boone, died Friday, October 29, 2010, at the Eastern Star Masonic Home in Boone. Funeral services were held at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at the First United Methodist Church at 703 Arden St. Boone, Iowa with Rev. Andrea Kraushaar officiating. Burial was in the Pilot Mound Cemetery, west of Boone.

Dorothy Emma Sorber, daughter of Charles and Cora Alsever Sorber was born June 29, 1917 , at Dallas, SD. On October 30, 1935, she married George “Buss” Bennett at Gregory, SD. The couple retired from farming in the Stanhope area.

She held various jobs including Morton Frozen Foods, Farm Journal, Avon Sales and Woodard Feeds and a dry cleaning route in Dayton. She managed Welcome Wagon at Nevada and was a R.S.V.P. volunteer in Nevada and at the Boone County Hospital. For the past three years she has resided at the Eastern Star Home in Boone.

Dorothy was preceded in death by her husband of 54 years in September of 1989 and her daughter, Darlene Trueblood, in April of 1993.

She is survived by her daughters and son-in-laws, Joy (Leroy) Tegels of Williford, AR; Karen (Lowell) Roney of Boone; Keith (Bev) Trueblood of Kingman, AZ; 10 grandchildren, 2 step-grandchildren; 21 great-grandchildren; 6 step-great-grandchildren; 7 great-great-grandchildren; one sister, Eldora Whiton of Perry, IA and several nieces and nephews.

Memorials may be sent to the family.

Write a personal tribute or light a virtual candle for the Bennett family at www.fosterfuneralandcremation.com.

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