James E. "Jim" Moriston 1933 - 2007

KINCAID, MORISTON, JOHNSON

Posted By: Connie Swearingen- Volunteer (email)
Date: 10/30/2016 at 22:02:36

Sioux City Journal
8 February 2007

James E. "Jim" Moriston, 73, of Sioux City was taken home to be with the Lord Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2007, at Bickford Cottage following a brief illness.

Services will be 11 a.m. Friday at Church of All Nations, next to Goodwill Industries, Sioux City, with the Rev. Martha Anderson officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Visitation will be 5 to 8 p.m. today, with the family present 6 to 8 p.m. and a prayer service at 6:30 p.m., at the church. Arrangements are under the direction of Waterbury Funeral Service in Sergeant Bluff.

Jim was born March 10, 1933, in Stevens, S.D. (North Sioux City), the son of Charles and Emily (Kincaid) Moriston. He was a lifetime resident of the Sioux City area. In his younger days, he attended McCook School and worked on the river as a pile driver.

On Nov. 10, 1951, he married Shirley Johnson. He was a hard worker. He worked for Rockland Manufacturing, Swifts Packing Plant and construction and sales until becoming a machinist for the last 27 years of his career, which included Modern Machine and Steffen. People thought of him as being one of the best drive shaft men around.

He was a member of Church of All Nations and a past member of the Sioux City Sillies. He was a devoted husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather. He was well liked by all who knew him and was thought to be a real character. His favorite pastimes were fishing and sitting by the river.

Survivors include his wife of 55 years, Shirley; a daughter and her husband, Darla and Timothy Baird; a son and his wife, Dustin and Shari; four grandchildren, Joshua Baird of Hampton, Iowa, Sarah Tillman of New Port News, Va., and Dustilyn and Cooper Moriston, both of Sioux City; five great-grandchildren, Hannah, Titus, Leah and Lana Tillman and Benjamin Baird; a brother and his wife, Charles and Esther; a sister, Emily Fender; and several nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents; four brothers, Leonard, Wesley "Mike", Forrest "Hoppy" and Raymond as a toddler; and three sisters, Ethel McMurray, Viola Russell and Lela Moriston as an infant.