Angeline "Annie" (Skaff) Lockwood 1926 - 2013

SKAFF, LOCKWOOD, GOSEN

Posted By: Connie Swearingen-Volunteer (email)
Date: 7/18/2013 at 09:45:47

Sioux City Journal
16 June 2013

SIOUX CITY | Angeline "Annie" (Skaff) Lockwood, 86, of Sioux City passed away Thursday, June 13, 2013, at her residence.

Services will be 10 a.m. Monday at St. Thomas Orthodox Church, with the Rev. Lucas Rice officiating. Burial will be in St. Thomas Orthodox Cemetery at Graceland Park Cemetery. Visitation will be 5 to 8 p.m. today, with the family present 6 to 8 p.m., and a Trisagion service at 7 p.m., all at Meyer Brothers Colonial Chapel.

Annie was born Aug. 9, 1926, in Sioux City. She was the daughter of Joseph and Sadie (Gosen) Skaff. Annie grew up in Sioux City and graduated from Central High School.

She worked as a seamstress for Tronvold Furriers in Sioux City, and then moved to Hollywood, Calif., and worked as a seamstress there.

Annie married Dean Lockwood on Sept. 13, 1959, at St. Thomas Orthodox Church in Sioux City. After her marriage, she worked part-time for Sioux City Bishops Cafeteria and as a caretaker for St. Thomas Orthodox Church.

Her family was very important to her and Annie was a wonderful wife, mother, sister and aunt. She was a lifelong member of St. Thomas Orthodox Church and she had served as a chairman of church bake sales.

Survivors include her husband, Dean of Sioux City; her son, Mark Lockwood of Sioux City; her daughter, Theresa and her partner, Laurie Schnee of Sioux City; her sister, LeSeema Malerelis of Houston, Texas; six grandchildren, Dawn Caskey, Kelley McPeek, Amber McPeek, James McPeek, Matthew Crane and Marcus Eyer; 13 great-grandchildren; her cousins, Victoria Carlson and her husband, Ron of Sioux City, and David Koury of Iowa City, Iowa; brothers-in-law, Robert Lockwood of Charles City, Iowa, James Lockwood of Hiawatha, Iowa, and Lee Lockwood of Dows, Iowa.

Annie was preceded in death by her parents; her brothers, Ferris Skaff, George Skaff, Michael Skaff, David Skaff, the Rev. Thomas Skaff, Abraham Skaff and Joseph Skaff Jr; her sisters, Mary Sellers, Sophie Skaff and Frances Hanna.

Pallbearers will be Huey Sullivan, James McPeek, Matthew Crane, Adam Dudley, Travis Caskey and Mark Hanna.