Inez J Bitter

BITTER TRUDEAU DEBOISE

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 4/11/2010 at 22:17:35

Sioux City Journal
16 January 2003

Inez J. Bitter, 79, of Sioux City died Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2003, at her residence.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Friday at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, with the Rev. Steven Brodersen officiating. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery. Visitation will be after 4 p.m. today, with the family present 6:30 to 8 p.m. and a parish vigil service at 7 p.m., all at the church. Arrangements are under the direction of Larkin Northside Funeral Home.

Inez was born July 18, 1923, in Elk Point, S.D., the daughter of William and Caroline (Trudeau) DeBoise. She was raised in Elk Point and graduated from Elk Point High School in 1941.

On June 1, 1942, at St. Joseph Church in Elk Point, she was joined in marriage to Edward P. Bitter. In the summer of 2002, she celebrated 60 years of marriage with her family and friends.

She came to Sioux City shortly after her marriage. She had been a member of Immaculate Conception Catholic Church for over 50 years. She also was a member of the church Altar Society. She had been a member of the American Legion Auxiliary Monahan Post for 25 years.

She had worked at the Biltmore Restaurant for several years and also at St. Joseph Hospital, Flavorland Packing Plant and in the lunchroom at Heelan High School. She worked at Sears for several years and retired from there in the late 1980s.

She devoted her life to her husband, children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Survivors include her husband, Edward P. Bitter of Sioux City; two sons and their wives, Robert E. and Luana Bitter of Pratt, Kan., and David and Sharon Bitter of Phoenix, Ariz.; a daughter and her husband, Catherine and Kenneth Bliven of Sioux City; 12 grandchildren, William Graff, Deb Farris, Susan Beam, Jennifer Evett, Frances Russell, Robin Bitter, William Bitter, Rebecca Bitter, Dawn Niedergeses, Aleshia Bliven, Adam Bliven and Dustin Bliven; five great-grandchildren, Will Graff, Tessa and Cale Beam, Lauren Niedergeses and Josephine Farris; and four sisters-in-law, Teresa DeBoise of Brookings, S.D., Charlotte Casey of Minneapolis, Elsie Bitter of Palm Bay, Fla., and LaVigne DeBoise of Hesperia, Calif.

She was preceded in death by her daughter, Janice Ann Graff; and three brothers, William, Aloysuis and Glen DeBoise.

Pallbearers will be William Bitter, Eric Niedergeses, Craig Beam, William Graff, Dave Farris, Matt Evett, Dustin Bliven, Adam Bliven and Iyatho Russell.

A memorial fund has been established in her name.