Lorelei I. Youtzy 1955 - 2008

YOUTZY, BODE, SWANSON

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 4/2/2019 at 21:19:06

Sioux City Journal
28 December 2008

HINTON, Iowa -- Lorelei I. Youtzy, 53, of Hinton passed away Thursday, Dec. 25, 2008, at a local hospital.

Services will be 2 p.m. Monday at Central Baptist Church in Sioux City, with the Revs. David Steinbron and Clyde Pritchett officiating. Private graveside services will be Tuesday in Memorial Park Cemetery. Visitation will be 3 to 8 p.m. today, with the family present 6 to 8 p.m. and a prayer service at 7 p.m., at Meyer Brothers Colonial Chapel in Sioux City. Online condolences may be sent to www.meyerbroschapels.com.

Lorelei was born April 2, 1955, in Chamberlain, S.D., to Otto and Estella (Bode) Swanson. She grew up in Pukwana, S.D., and graduated from Chamberlain High School. Lorelei then attended and graduated from South Dakota State University. She was a medical technologist and, most recently, was a lay chaplain for Market Place Ministries, serving at Bickford Cottages, which she loved dearly.

Lorelei married Harold Youtzy Jr. on May 29, 1982, in Sioux Falls, S.D. She enjoyed scrap-booking, cooking and being at all her children's activities. She had a love for music, especially in playing the piano for church and school show choir as well as singing. Lorelei also loved being a homemaker and mother to her six children and wife to Harold. She was a member of Grace Evangelical Church in Hinton.

Lorelei is survived by her husband, Harold of Hinton; six children, Daniel and wife, Heather Youtzy of Sioux Falls, Jonathan, Rebekah, Timothy, Stephen and Nathan Youtzy, all of Hinton; a brother, Jerald Swanson of Pukwana; and two sisters, Jan Boe and husband, Richard of Sioux Falls, and Marcia Heupel and husband, Al of Madison, Wis.

She was preceded in death by her parents and a brother and sister-in-law, Morris and his wife, Sharon Swanson.