Joseph P. Urbanos 1928 - 2016

URBANOS, KSENEVICH, MCCLIMANS

Posted By: Connie Swearingen- Volunteer (email)
Date: 4/20/2016 at 08:00:45

Sioux City Journal
10 April 2016

SIOUX CITY | Joseph P. Urbanos, "Papa Joe," 87, of Sioux City passed away Wednesday, April 6, 2016.

Services will be 11:30 a.m. Monday at St. Joseph's Catholic Church. Interment will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Visitation will be 4 to 8 p.m. today, with the family present at 6 p.m. and a vigil service at 7 p.m., at Meyer Brothers Colonial Chapel. Condolences may be sent online to www.meyerbroschapels.com.

Joseph was born on April 16, 1928, in Sioux City, the son of Paul P. and Eva M. (Ksenevich) Urbanos.

He married Marian McClimans on Nov 20, 1949, at St. Casimir's Catholic Church in Sioux City. He served in the Korean conflict and was employed with Swift and Co. for more than 30 years. Joe was a master of many trades.

He loved traveling, gardening, sketching, cooking (he is best known for Papa Joe's homemade sausages) and wood working, including building miniature dollhouses, churches and birdhouses. When he could no longer make it to his wood working room, he started creating Joe's Little Village with cardboard boxes and whatever else he could find. Always willing to help out friends and family his handy work can be found coast to coast.

He loved to be with family and friends and found great joy playing with his cats, Lily and Kokomo, and all of his four-legged furry grandbabies. He was genuinely grateful and appreciative to his daughters for their endless care and support to keep him in his own home.

To Papa Joe – "We will always love you, a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck."

Joseph is survived by his three daughters, Cynthia M. "Urbie" Urbanos, Tracy M. Urbanos and her husband, Alan McCoy, and Lisa Marian Urbanos; also his sister, Anne Postello.

He is preceded in death by his wife, Marian; his parents; a sister, Helen McCall; and two brothers, Henry Urbanos and John Urbanos.

Memorials may be made in his name to the American Heart Association and the Humane Society.