Jana Henricka Willms Hebert 1915-2010

HEBERT, LUCHT WILLMS

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 2/21/2011 at 00:15:40

Sioux City Journal
12 December 2010

SIOUX CITY -- Jana "Jennie" Hebert, 94, of Sioux City passed away Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2010, at Holy Spirit Retirement Home in Sioux City, after a short illness.

Services will be 2 p.m. Tuesday at Carlsen Funeral Home-Schroeder Chapel in Akron, Iowa, with Chaplain Mike Inman from Hospice of Siouxland officiating. Burial will follow in Union Creek Cemetery, rural Union County, S.D. Visitation will be 1 p.m. to service time Tuesday at the funeral home. Expressions of sympathy can be extended to the family through www.carlsenfuneralhome.com.

Jana Henricka Willms was born Dec. 30, 1915, in Fulda, Minn., the daughter of John and Oktje (Lucht) Willms. She attended Mount Hope Country School in Union County, S.D.

Jana was united in marriage to Wilfred "Steve" Hebert on Aug. 17, 1940, in Dakota City, Neb. Jana was the head cook at the Sioux City Stockyards restaurant, the "Silver Steer," from 1956 to 1981. She was loved and respected by the stockyards community. Jana cooked meals for all the truck drivers traveling from all around the country, the packinghouse workers, the Livestock National Bank employees and the general public. She would often work through the night when bad weather was imminent to ensure that the line upon line of stranded truck drivers received a good meal.

Jana, along with her husband, Steve, loved visiting her daughter, Norma and her family in Anchorage, Alaska. Family was the most important aspect of Jana's life. For the past 15 years, she, along with family members, served as caregivers for her grandson, Terry, who is battling A.L.S. Jana always put others before herself and was a prime example of genuine altruism. She will be dearly missed by the many people whose lives she touched.

She is survived by her two daughters, Deanna Larvick and her husband Eric of Sioux City, and Norma Alvarez and her husband Patrick of Anchorage, Alaska; five grandchildren, Terry Swenson, Jayme Stafford, Tracie Dablemont, Todd Stafford and Anthony Alvarez; three great-grandchildren, Stacey Swenson, Shayla Dablemont and Brayden Stafford; and many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Steve; three brothers, Frank, Ed and Hank Willms; and one sister, Tillie Heyl.