Homer Sargent 1922-2010

SARGENT KNISS

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 2/20/2011 at 20:24:19

Sioux City Journal
11 June 2010

.SIOUX CITY -- Homer Sargent, 88, of Scottsbluff, Neb., formerly of Sioux City, died May 24, 2010, at the Medical Center of the Rockies in Loveland, Colo.

Abiding by his request, cremation was held at Joliffe Funeral Home in Scottsbluff. Private family services will be at a later date.

Homer was born in Omaha on Feb. 11, 1922. He graduated from Omaha Central in 1940, and attended the University of Nebraska the following year.

His family moved to Alliance, Neb., in 1941. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy Seabees in 1942. He served in the South Pacific during World War II, including Guadalcanal, Bougainville, the Admiralty Islands and Okinawa. He was honorably discharged in 1946.

He entered the wholesale meat business in 1941 and eventually engaged in every facet of that industry. He married Helen Kniss in 1951, in Torrington, Wyo. In 1958, they moved to Sioux City, where he worked as a beef salesman for Raskin Packing Company. In 1994, he and Helen retired to Scottsbluff.

His main hobby was restoring old wooden-vaned windmills. He helped with the formation of Windmill State Park near Gibbon, Neb.

He is survived by his wife, Helen; a sister, Ruthann Jones (Rex); a son, Dr. Frank Sargent (Rita) of Sioux City; a daughter, Joan Green (Roger) of Scottsbluff; granddaughters, Katie Sargent of Chicago, and Annie Sargent of Minneapolis; and a grandson, Jay Robson (JoRay) of Denver, Colo.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Frank and Ruth; and a sister, Margaret Cobb.