Lorraine M. Beacom 1919 - 2005

BEACOM, MONTAGNE, BOURASSA

Posted By: Connie Swearingen- Volunteer (email)
Date: 1/26/2017 at 13:51:00

Sioux City Journal
16 September 2005

Lorraine M. Beacom, 86, of Sioux City died Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2005, at her residence surrounded by her family after a courageous battle with cancer.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Monday at St. Michael's Catholic Church, with the Rev. Gary B. Snyder officiating. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery. Visitation will be 1 to 9 p.m. Sunday, with a Catholic Daughters of America rosary at 4 p.m. and a parish vigil service at 7 p.m., at Larkin Northside Funeral Home.

Lorraine was born July 23, 1919, in Jefferson, S.D., the daughter of Phillip and Olive (Montagne) Bourassa. She was raised in Jefferson and graduated from Jefferson High School. She then moved to Sioux City, where she received her registered nursing degree from St. Joseph School of Nursing in 1940.

She married Thomas A. "T.A." Beacom on June 28, 1941, at St. Peter's Church in Jefferson. During World War II, the couple lived in Texas, Virginia and California. She worked as a registered nurse during the war years. After the war, they returned to Sioux City. She then was a homemaker for her husband and children. She also worked and volunteered at Villa Maria.

She was a member of St. Michael's Catholic Church, the Altar Society, the Catholic Daughters of America Ave Maria Court 269 and the Catholic Women League. She was a volunteer at the Bargain Center. She was a volunteer at the Hallmark Care Center and led the rosary there for 12 years. She enjoyed sewing, reading and spending time with her husband, children, grandchildren and extended family.

Survivors include her husband, T.A. Beacom of Sioux City; a daughter and her husband, Mary Claire and Michael Kenne of Altoona, Iowa; two sons and their wives, Thomas and Joy Beacom of Somers, Iowa, and Michael and Katie Beacom of Omaha;l a niece, Mary Joyce (Forney) Nelson of Spokane, Wash.; two sisters, Irene Shearon and Gabrielle Perry; three brothers, Leo, Martin and Jerome "Bud" Bourassa; nine grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; and two foster children.

She was preceded in death by her parents; two granddaughters, Erica and Teri Beacom; two nieces, Colleen Forney and Barbara (Forney) Sitzmann; three sisters, Delores Steinbeck, Monica Huguet and Ernestine Alsager; and three brothers, Vincent, Paul and Andrew Bourassa.

Pallbearers will be her grandsons.

Memorials in her name may be directed to St. Michael's Catholic Church and the June E. Nylen Cancer Center.