Maxine F. Dicks 1923-2013

DICKS, COON, HAYWORTH

Posted By: Connie Swearingen-Volunteer (email)
Date: 2/5/2013 at 11:55:34

Sioux City Journal
25 January 2013

HORNICK, Iowa | Maxine F. Dicks, 89, of Hornick passed away at her home on Jan. 22, 2013.

Memorial services will be 1:30 p.m. Saturday at Hornick United Methodist Church, with the Rev. Catie Newman officiating. Burial will be at a later date in Climbing Hill Cemetery, Climbing Hill, Iowa. Visitation and a luncheon with the family will be noon until service time Saturday at the church. Arrangements are under the direction of Waterbury Funeral Service in Sergeant Bluff.

Maxine was born on April 15, 1923, in Oto, Iowa, the daughter of Ivel and Iva (Coon) Hayworth. She was raised in Oto and attended school there.

Maxine married Leo Dicks and they lived happily together for 53 years, until his death in 1991. The couple lived in Oto and then moved to Hornick, where they raised their family. During World War II, she worked at the Sergeant Bluff Air Force Base. She later worked at Westwood Elementary School.

Her family meant everything to her and she enjoyed spending her life caring for them. She loved going places with her sisters (known to everyone as the three sisters) and they shared many laughs together. Maxine also enjoyed traveling with her family from the Pacific to the Atlantic. Her favorite memory was a trip to New Orleans, where they stayed on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter and then went on a dinner cruise on a paddle boat up the Mississippi River.

Maxine is survived by her four sons, Larry and Evelyn of Anthon, Iowa, Steve and Kathy of Hornick, Randy and Eric of Tampa and Jamie of Hornick; two daughters, Peggy and Phil Feddersen of Onawa, Iowa, and Kathy and Scott Blakely of Smithland, Iowa; a sister, Phyllis Dowling of Hornick; a sister-in-law, Delores Hayworth of Klemme, Iowa; eight grandchildren; 21 great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Leo; her parents; her brother, Norman Hayworth; her sister, Doris Thompson; and brothers-in-law, Glen Plummer, Don Thompson and Leonard Dowling