Mary Elizabeth "Beth" Closson 1935 - 1999

CLOSSON, HEIKES, MUNSINGER

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Date: 11/2/2014 at 00:40:25

Sioux City Journal
11 March 1999

SOUTH SIOUX CITY - Mary Elizabeth "Beth" Closson, 63, of South Sioux City died Monday, March 8, 1999, in Sioux City.

Services will be at 1 p.m. today at First Presbyterian Church, with the Rev. E.D. Pappadackis officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Arrangements are under the direction of Christy-Smith Funeral Home.

Mrs. Closson was born Nov. 6, 1935, in Mills County, Iowa, the daughter of Joseph M. and Harriet L. (Heikes) Munsinger. She was raised in the Tabor, Iowa, area and graduated from Tabor High School. She graduated from Wayne State College in 1958, with her bachelor's degree in teacher education. She received her master's degree in 1968 from South Western State College in Weatherford, Okla.

She married A. Gene Closson on Aug. 14, 1960. She taught in Fort Morgan, Colo., for two years. She taught in the Sioux City School District for 34 years, mostly at Longfellow Elementry School. She retired in 1993.

She was a member of First Presbyterian Church, International Order of the Rainbow Girls, where she was a past mother advisor and past Grand Deputy for Nebraska and Iowa organizations. She was a member of Order of the Eastern Star Chapter 301, Morningside Chapter of Order of the Eastern Star, where she was a past Matron and twice state delegate to the State of Alabama, home representative for Fremont Home for Boys and Girls, which is sponsored by the Masons, Daughters of the Nile, where she was reigning queen, Retired Teachers Association, P.E.O. and Delta Kappa Gamma Sorority. She was a former member of South Sioux City Community Chorus.

Survivors include her husband; two sisters, Doris Carlson of Tabor and Marilyn Williams of Superior, Neb.; a brother, Lutheran Munsinger of Northboro, Iowa; and many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents; and two brothers, Joseph and Warren Munsinger.

Pallbearers will be Stan and Steve Carlson, Alan Closson, David Herrington, Merril and Rick Munsinger, David and Dayre Williams