Opal Iolene Eriksen 1918 - 2017

ERIKSEN, WALCH, ROOST

Posted By: Connie Swearingen- Volunteer (email)
Date: 4/18/2017 at 11:29:32

Sioux City Journal
5 April 2017

SOUTH SIOUX CITY | Opal Iolene Eriksen, 98, of South Sioux City, passed away Thursday, March 30, 2017, at her home.

A celebration of life service will be 10:30 a.m. Thursday at First Lutheran Church in South Sioux City, with the Rev. Douglas Dill and Rev. Stephen Niles officiating. Burial will be in Graceland Park Cemetery. Visitation will be 9:30 a.m. until service time Thursday at the church. Arrangements are under the direction of Becker-Hunt Funeral Home.

Iolene was born on Dec. 12, 1918, in Jackson, Neb., the daughter of Ferdinand and Kathryn (Walch) Roost. She graduated from the catholic high school in Jackson, then became a teacher. She attending Western Iowa Tech Community College in the summers for continuing education until getting married.

She married Arthur "Bob" Eriksen on May 28, 1941 in Hubbard, Neb. Iolene spent her married years happily taking care of her husband on their farm in early married years, then traveling with him moving all over the United States to wherever his union job sent them until 1993, when her husband died. She moved home from Casa Grande, Ariz., and lived the rest of her life in South Sioux City. Iolene lived a very happy, healthy, and fulfilling life.

Survivors include her son, Gerald Eriksen of Leavenworth, Wash.; her grandson, Jerry E. Eriksen and granddaughter-in-law, Nicole Eriksen of South Sioux City; great-grandson, Jaryd C. Eriksen of South Sioux City; and many nieces and nephews, that she loved and cared about very much.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Bob on Dec. 19, 1993 in Casa Grande, Ariz.; and two brothers, Charlie Roost and his wife, Mary Lou, and Ivan Roost and his wife, Adella.

Pallbearers will be Ivan Roost, JR. Kevin Roost, Steve Roost, Craig Roost, Marc Roost and Patrick Owen.

The family expresses a special thank you to Hospice of Siouxland and asks that you please consider sending a memorial in Iolene's name to them.