Nancy Jo (Ganger) Farrington 1947 - 2009

GANGER, FARRINGTON, MUNGER

Posted By: Connie Swearingen-Volunteer (email)
Date: 6/24/2013 at 14:19:23

Sioux City Journal
4 November 2009

SIOUX CITY -- Nancy Jo (Ganger) Farrington, 62, of Sioux City and Cherokee, Iowa, originally from Peterson, Iowa, passed away Sunday morning, Nov. 1, 2009, at a Sioux City hospital.

Services will be 11 a.m. Friday at the Boothby Funeral Home in Cherokee, Iowa, with the Rev. Valerie Heller officiating. Following the service, it was Nancy's wishes to be cremated and burial will be in the Oakland Cemetery at Peterson, Iowa, at a later date. Visitation will be 1 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home. Visitation with the family will continue 10 a.m. until service time Friday at the funeral home. Online condolences can be left at www.boothbyfuneral.com.

Nancy was born on May 15, 1947, at Spencer, Iowa, to Fred and Virginia (Munger) Ganger. She attended Peterson Community Schools through the fifth grade and graduated from Sioux Valley Community High School in 1967. She then attended the Spencer School of Business in Spencer, Iowa.

She was married to Roger Farrington on May 15, 1974, at Sioux City. Nancy had worked for the Iowa State Department of Revenue, Woodward State Hospital, Woodbury County Licensing Bureau, Bishop's Cafeteria and with the housekeeping department of St. Luke's Regional Medical Center in Sioux City.

She was affiliated with the Rustin Avenue United Methodist Church in Sioux City. She sang in the church choir and was a former member of the Junior Auxiliary in Peterson, Iowa. She enjoyed square dancing.

She is survived by her longtime special companion, Robert "Bob" Bergert of Sioux City; one daughter, Theresa Dunagan and her husband Jesse of Gilbert, Ariz.; three grandchildren, Ryan, Grace and Hunter Dunagan; her mother, Virginia Ganger of Peterson, Iowa; one sister, Sue Hodgen of Remsen, Iowa.

She was preceded in death by her father, Fred C. Ganger.