Eugene L. McGee 1912 - 1998

MCGEE, FOSTER, STARK, WEILAND

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Date: 3/2/2018 at 15:51:22

Sioux City Journal
16 June 1998

Eugene L. McGee, 85, of Yankton, South Dakota, formerly of Sioux City, died Wednesday, June 10, 1998, in Yankton of injuries suffered in an automobile accident.

Services will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday at Christy, Smith and Hockenberry Funeral Home, with the Rev. Martha Anderson, pastor of Rustin Avenue United Methodist Church in Sioux City, officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Visitation will be 1 to 8:30 p.m. today, with the family present 7 to 8:30 p.m. and a Masonic service at 7 p.m. conducted by the Landmark Masonic Lodge 103 A.F. & A.M. all at the funeral home.

Mr. McGee was born October 18, 1912 in Sioux City, the son of Frederick and Mabel (Foster) McGee. He was raised in Sioux City.

He married Wilma May Stark on April 20, 1933, in Sioux City. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II in the Pacific Theater. She died March 7, 1953 in Sioux City. He married Garnett E. Weiland on November 5, 1955, in LaVerne, Minnesota. She died February 6, 1990 in Yankton.

He was employed as a cement mason with H.S. Holtz Construction Company for over 40 years. He moved to Yankton in the mid-1970s.

He attended Rustin Avenue United Methodist Church while living in Sioux City. He was a member of Cement Mason’s Union, the Landmark Masonic Lodge 103 A.F. & A.M. and the Abu Bekr Shrine.

Survivors include two daughters, Donna Vandersall of Rockford, Illinois and Shirley and her husband Emil Girard of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio; a sister and her husband, Lila and Forrest Blakely of Sioux City; nine grandchildren, Greg, Jim and David Girard, Jeffrey, Bruce and Tim Vandersall, Debbie Skubon, Mary Darago and Deanna Albertson and 21 great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by three sisters, Eva, Louise and Mary and two brothers, Ernest and Vern.

Pallbearers will be Tim and Bruce Vandersall, Greg and David Girard, Doug Blakely and Chris Vakulskas.

Memorials may be directed to the Transportation Fund for the Shriners Hospital.