Mary J. McAfee 1936 - 2008

MCAFEE, MCFADDEN, JORDAN

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 5/8/2019 at 19:03:26

Sioux City Journal
13 May 2008

SOUTH SIOUX CITY -- Mary J. McAfee, 72, of South Sioux City, formerly of Bloomfield, Neb., passed away Monday, May 12, 2008, at a South Sioux City care center.

Graveside services will be 11 a.m. Thursday in Ponca City Cemetery, Ponca, Neb., with the Rev. Karen Kaye officiating. There will be a luncheon at Salem Lutheran Church in Dakota City following the graveside service. Visitation will be 2 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, with a prayer service at 8:30 p.m., at Becker-Hunt Funeral Home.

Mary was born April 2, 1936, in Wakefield, Neb., the daughter of Edwin T. and Bernice "Peggy" (McFadden) Jordan.

She married Merle McAfee on March 16, 1953, in Ponca, Neb. He died Dec. 18, 1994 in South Sioux City. She worked at the Regency Square Nursing Home in the early 1980s. She also worked in the cafeteria at IBP and the Red Raven as a waitress.

She loved camping, fishing and crocheting. She was very involved in the Senior Citizens Center and loved the jam sessions. She was a member of St. Mark's Lutheran Church in Bloomfield, Neb. and a former member of Salem Lutheran Church in Dakota City.

Survivors include a son and his wife, Robert and Diane McAfee of Leechburg, Pa.; a daughter, Carol Hitchcock of South Sioux City; two brothers and their wives, Kenneth and Donna Jordan of Omaha and Robert and Jeanine Jordan of Gardnerville, Nev.; three sisters, Darlene Murdoch of Yucca Valley, Calif., Colleen and her husband, Cliff Templeman of Dixon, Neb., and Jenny and her husband, Wayne Wagner of Midway, Utah; five grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; a son, Kenneth McAfee; a grandson, Lance Hitchcock; and her significant other, Bill Miller.

Pallbearers will be Erik and Brian Hitchcock, Brad Roberts, Jim Peck and Jeremy and Billy Knapp.