Jean I. Schultz 1918-2013

SCHULTZ, TUBBS, HARRINGTON

Posted By: Connie Swearingen-Volunteer (email)
Date: 2/5/2013 at 10:17:56

Sioux City Journal
30 January 2013

SIOUX CITY | Jean I. Schultz, 94, of Sioux City passed away Sunday, Jan. 27, 2013, at a local hospital.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Friday at Meyer Brothers Colonial Chapel. Burial will be in Logan Park Cemetery. Visitation will be 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday, with the family present 6 to 8 p.m., at the funeral home.

Jean was born on May 30, 1918, in Sioux City, the daughter of Grover and Gladys (Tubbs) Harrington.

She married John Andrew Schultz on May 7, 1940, in South Sioux City. To this union five children were born. John preceded her in death on June 28, 1982.

Jean enjoyed bowling and received a trophy for her high scores. She also loved flowers, gardening, music, playing the piano and some ukulele, shopping and antiquing. She always loved to spend time with her mother and siblings, enjoying the luncheons they would have when they all played Pokeno or Tripoly. In her later years, she enjoyed going to the Argosy Casino with her brother, Don, and sister, Janice. Jean was the center of the family and loved spending time with them. She enjoyed holidays and cooking for the entire family. She was a very strong woman who helped raise her brothers and sisters during the Depression and continued to provide for her children. Jean was a member of the Sioux City Museum Historical Society for many years.

Survivors include her children, David (Kathy) Schultz, Gerald Schultz and his companion, Margie Nichols, and Tim Schultz, all of Sioux City, and Lisa Schultz-Smith of Dakota City; three brothers, Donald Harrington of Sioux City, Richard (Delores) Harrington of Hot Springs, Ark., and Thomas (Helen) Harrington of Fergus Falls, Minn.; a sister, Janice Elsner of Sioux City; 11 grandchildren; 18 great-grandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, John; a son, John "Jack" Schultz; a brother, Gerald Harrington; and two sisters, Rosemary and Patricia.