Ruperto Medina 1920- 1998

MEDINA, LECLAIRE

Posted By: Connie Swearingen- Volunteer (email)
Date: 2/27/2020 at 12:51:58

Sioux City Journal
30 June 1998

Ruperto Medina 77, of Sioux City died Saturday, June 27, 1998 at Casa de Paz Care Center following a lengthy illness.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at St. Boniface Catholic Church, with the Rev. Marvin J. Boes officiating. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery, with military rites conducted by Veterans of Foreign Wars Sergeant Floyd Post 1973. Visitation will be until 9 p.m. today, with the family present 7 to 9 p.m. and a scriptural wake at 7 p.m. at Meyer Brothers Colonial Chapel.

Mr. Medina was born October 31, 1920 in Questa, New Mexico, the son of Abad J. and Rosita M. Medina.

He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II.

He married Olive LeClaire on January 6, 1945, in Sioux City. They moved to Sioux City in 1955. She died on June 16, 1979 in Sioux City.

He was employed as a yard salesman with Payless Cashways for 29 years, retiring in 1984.

He was a member of St. Boniface Catholic Church.

Survivors include four sons, Rupert “Wayne”, John, Dave and Rich Medina, all of Sioux City; six daughters, Marilyn Parker of McCook Lake, South Dakota, Pat and her husband, Fred Mondragon of Taos, New Mexico, Juanita and her husband, John Medina, Linda Medina and Angel Fatland, all of Sioux City and Violet Frazier of South Sioux City; 32grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents, a son in infancy, six brothers, a sister in infancy and a grandson.

Pallbearers will be his grandsons, Brandon, Justin and Jason Medina, Travis and Jared Frazier and Dale Parker Sr.