Nina Weatherly 1926-2010

WEATHERLY, BIERSBORN REESE

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 3/7/2011 at 00:21:55

Sioux City Journal
1 October 2010

SIOUX CITY -- Nina Weatherly, 83, Sioux City died Monday, Sept. 27,2010, at Sunrise Retirement Community in Sioux City following a lengthy illness.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at Union Community Church in Union, Iowa. Burial will be the Union City Cemetery. Visitation will be 5 to 7 p.m. Monday in the church. Arrangement in Union are under the direction of The Vogel- Biersborn Funeral Home. Arrangements in Sioux City are under the direction of Morningside Chapel, Christy-Smith Funeral Home.

Nina was born Oct. 12, 1926, in Union, Iowa, the daughter of Boyd H. and Ruth (Biersborn) Reese. She attended school in Union and graduated from Union High School in 1947. After graduation, she worked at the Citizens State Bank in Iowa Falls, Iowa.

She married Robert Weatherly on Feb. 14, 1947. He was in the U.S. Army, so they traveled extensively throughout the United States and spent three years overseas. While her husband was gone serving his country, she had to raise her boy, along with her parents, on her own. The family settled in Sergeant Bluff in 1962. Nina worked for Mid-American Energy Co. for 10 years. Her husband Bob died on July 1, 1991.

Nina was a people person. She had a good sense of humor and she dearly loved children. Her favorite holiday was Christmas. She would wrap presents for days and have to sleep on the couch because her room would be full of presents and gift wrap. She made the world's best potato salad. She also loved reading, drinking coffee and eating chocolate. She was kind and generous and loved her family. She talked about her boys a lot, especially over the past seven months.

She is survived by three sons, Dan and Cindy of Homer, Ark., Bob and Linda of Lawton, Iowa, and Chuck and Saba of Parksville, Mo.; eight grandchildren, Danny, Ian Weatherly, Chris and and his wife, Ronna Topf, Stace H., Chad W., Alyssa, Adam and Alex Weatherly; and six great-grandchildren, Dakota, Mitchell, Eliana, Kami Topf, Tanner and Kylie Grove.

She was preceded in death by her parents and her husband.

A memorial has been established in her name for Hospice of Siouxland.