Dolores Louise Suhr 1927 - 2014

SUHR, KUTSCHINSKI, FRIEDRICHS

Posted By: Connie Swearingen-Volunteer (email)
Date: 10/22/2014 at 10:48:32

Sioux City Journal
15 October 2014

SIOUX CITY | Dolores Louise Suhr, 87, of Luverne, Minn., formerly of Sioux City, died Sunday, Oct. 12, 2014, at Sanford Luverne Medical Center.

Services will be 2 p.m. Thursday at St. John Lutheran Church in Luverne, with the Rev. Gary Klatt officiating. Burial will be in Maplewood Cemetery. Visitation will be 4 to 8 p.m. today at Dingmann Funeral Home in Luverne. Visitation will resume 1 p.m. until service time Thursday at the church. To view an online obituary, and sign a virtual register book, please visit www.dingmannandsons.com.

She was born on June 24, 1927, on a farm near Alexandria, S.D., to William E. and Erna (Kutschinski) Friedrichs. Dolores was baptized on July 17, 1927, at St. Martin Lutheran Church in Alexandria. As a young child, she moved with her family to rural Charter Oak, Iowa. She attended country school and St. John Lutheran School. She was confirmed on March 17, 1940, at St. John Lutheran Church in Charter Oak, and graduated from Charter Oak High School in 1944.

Following graduation, she moved to Sioux City and worked for Northwestern Bell Telephone Co. for 13 years. She held various positions there, eventually becoming the business office supervisor. While in Sioux City, she was a member of St. Paul Lutheran Church, and an active member of the Walther League.

She met Raymond W. Suhr through church activities and they were married on Sept. 1, 1956, at St. John Lutheran Church in Charter Oak. Except for two years when the couple moved to New Ulm, Minn., they lived in Luverne their entire married life.

She was a member of St. John Lutheran Church in Luverne and a charter member of the Wednesday Morning Bible Study. She was involved with Project Compassion and a member of Women’s Society and Circle. She was past president of the Pipestone Zone of the Lutheran Women’s Missionary League and attended a number of LWML national conventions. She enjoyed gardening, reading, traveling, community concerts and theatre. She had served as an election judge. She became a resident of the Mary Jane Brown Home in Luverne in December 2010.

Dolores is survived by her daughter, Kristin Suhr of Luverne; brother, Don (Nadine) Friedrichs of Charter Oak; sister, Rita (Delbert) Lafrentz of Mapleton, Iowa; many nieces, and nephews; and other family and friends.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Raymond in February 2009; sister, Lavaughn and her husband, Irvin Schultz; nephews, Troy Lafrentz and Roger Suhr; and her husband’s siblings and their spouses, Norman and Esther Suhr, Wilmer and Ardelle Suhr, and Lorraine and Virgil Wollenburg