Honsey, Dorothy Lucille (1924-2018)

HONSEY, NELSON, DAVIDSON, BAX, KIRSCH, APARICIO, SMITH, CHAMBERLIN, CARLSGAARD, JACOBSON, STIER, SIMONSON, STICKEN, CHRZ, DAHL, DAKKEN

Posted By: Paul Nagy (email)
Date: 1/26/2018 at 11:45:02

Dorothy Lucille Honsey
February 23, 1924 - January 05, 2018

Dorothy L. Honsey, age 93, of Lake Mills, died on Friday, January 5, 2018, at the Muse Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit in Mason City.

Dorothy Lucille Nelson Honsey was born on February 23, 1924, in Freeborn County Minnesota to Ervin and Alice Davidson Nelson. Baptized and confirmed at the Lime Creek Stateline Church, she attended country school and then Emmons High School, graduating in 1941.

On October 11, 1942, Dorothy married her high school sweetheart, Joseph Honsey, at the Lime Creek Evangelical Lutheran Church near Lake Mills, Iowa. They operated a dairy farm on Joe’s home place where they, also, raised their six children. Very much involved with their church, Dorothy taught Sunday school, participated in the Bethany Auxiliary, the Lime Creek Ladies Aid Society, Bible study, and served five years as treasurer of the Aid Association for Lutherans, Branch 3324. In addition, she joined the Lake Mills Literary Club. She enjoyed cooking, baking, listening to music, watching civic plays, and spending time with family, especially at Lake Okoboji.

She is survived by five children: Ronald (Cheryll) Honsey, of Champlin, Minnesota, Gary (Marsha) Honsey, of Lake Mills, Marsha (Phil) Bax, of Johnston, Iowa, Dennis (Andrea) Honsey, of Baltimore, Maryland, and Dawn (Phil) Kirsch, of Davenport, Iowa; and a son-in-law, Marty Aparicio, of Tallahassee, Florida; eleven grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren: Matthew (Tina) Honsey and Brett and Olivia; Heather (Joy) Honsey-Smith; Reed (Natalie) Honsey and Jordan, Mollie, and Addison; Leif Honsey; Ryan Chamberlin; Chris (Sarah) Chamberlin and Chloe, Isabella, Johnny, and Halle; Sarah Bax; Spencer Carlsgaard; Joseph Honsey; Sydney Aparicio; and Bryce Aparicio; five sisters and two brothers: Darlene Jacobson, Truman (Teresa) Nelson, Marilyn Stier, Beverly Simonson, Richard Nelson, and LaDonna (Fred) Sticken; as well as by many other relatives and good friends.

Dorothy was preceded in death by her parents, Erv and Alice Nelson; her husband, Joseph, on August 27, 1995; her daughter, Doreen Aparicio, on August 24, 2014; her father- and mother-in-law, Oliver and Nelsine Honsey; two brothers-in-law, Gene Jacobson and Merlin Simonson; a niece Renae Jacobson; and many brothers- and sisters-in-law in the Honsey family: Conrad Honsey, Rudolph and Betty Honsey, Barbara and Woodrow Chrz, Thelma and Bjarne Dahl, and Naomi and Bud Dakken.

Funeral services will be held at 10:30 AM on Wednesday, January 10, 2018, at the Lime Creek Synod Evangelical Lutheran Church, rural Lake Mills, with Pastor David Emmons officiating. Burial will be in the Lime Creek Synod Cemetery, rural Lake Mills. Visitation will be on Tuesday, January 9, 2018, from 5:00 to 7:00 PM at the Mittelstadt Funeral Home, 902 East Main Street, Lake Mills, and will continue for one hour before the service at the church. Memorials may be directed to the Lime Creek Cemetery Fund c/o Gary Honsey, 48468-220th Ave., Lake Mills, Iowa 50450.

Mittelstadt Funeral Home, Lake Mills, Iowa, 2018.

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