DeLores Ann (Kovarna) Parry 1929 - 2017

KOVARNA, PARRY, HARTMAN

Posted By: Connie Swearingen -Volunteer (email)
Date: 10/19/2017 at 06:45:22

Sioux City Journal
22 August 2017

Sioux City

DeLores Ann (Kovarna) Parry, 88, of Fountain Valley, Calif., formerly of Sioux City, was called to be with the Lord Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017, surrounded by her loving family.

Celebration of life services will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 2, at Mission Hills Church, 24162 Alivia Parkway, in Mission Viejo, Calif. Inurnment will be private in Riverside National Cemetery, Riverside, Calif.

DeLores Ann Parry was born on July 18, 1929, the daughter of James Kovarna and Clara (Hartman) Kovarna, in Sioux City, and was a native of Sioux City.

She was a 1946 graduate of Liberty Union High School, where she was a cheerleader and on the girls basketball team. This is where her love of dancing and basketball started. She met her future husband, Wendell Paul Parry, ballroom dancing in Sioux City. They married in 1948 and they resided on their farm in Westfield, Iowa, for 18 years.

In 1966, after selling their farm in Iowa, they traveled west to start their new life in Fountain Valley and raised their five children. She was so proud of her children and family meant everything to her. DeLores worked as an office manager for a veterinary hospital for 18 years. DeLores loved her flower garden and had an amazing green thumb with everything she touched. She continued to ballroom dance throughout her 88 years. DeLores was blessed to celebrate 61 years of marriage to Wendell in 2009 before his passing that year.

She is survived by her five children, Cathleen and son-in-law, Edward Masterson, LaDonna and son-in-law, Gary Fulton, Judy and son-in-law, Cesar Castagno, DeAnn and son-in-law, Steve Schetne, and Alan Parry and daughter-in-law, Mary. DeLores was blessed to have 13 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren. She is also survived by her sister, Lois Newberg.