Mary E. Loftus 1914-1996

LOFTUS SCOTT PATRICK

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 7/7/2011 at 18:13:02

Sioux City Journal
15 October 1996

Mary E. Loftus, 82, Sunrise Manor, died Sunday, October 13, 1996, at a Sioux City hospital.

Services will be 10 a.m. Wednesday at the Lawton Community Presbyterian Church with the Rev. Robert E. Peters officiating. Burial will be in Banner Township Cemetery. Visitation will be 1 to 9 p.m. today, with the family present 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. and a 7:30 p.m. prayer service at the Larkin Morningside Funeral Home.

Mrs. Loftus was born January 7, 1914, in Council Bluffs, Iowa, the daughter of Jesse M. and Holly A (Scott) Patrick. She came to Sioux City with her family at the age of 8. She graduated from Central High School and later from Morningside College in 1961 with a teaching degree.

She married Leo L Loftus June 27, 1936, in Elk Point, S.D. The couple moved to a farm in the Lawton area and moved into town in about 1946. She taught third grade at Lawton-Bronson School from 1963 until her retirement in 1982. He died April 5, 1991, in Sioux City.

Mrs. Loftus was a past president of the National PTA and was active with the Heart Association. She was a member of the Lawton Community Presbyterian Church where she was an elder. She was active in various church and community organizations.

Survivors include five sons and their wives, James A and Marleen of Sioux City, Jay A. and Doris of Kelso, Wash., Donald E and Goldie of Longview, Wash., William and Jolene of Fort Worth, Texas, and Robert E. and Sue of Ormond Beach, Fla.; a daughter, Judith and her husband, Glen Ashcraft of Sioux City; 16 grandchildren and 28 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by a son, John A Loftus; two brothers, Malcolm and William Patrick and a sister Caroline Patrick.