Peter "Pete" Maximona 1925 - 2009

KUNOWAC, MAXIMONA, MAHNKE

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 3/31/2020 at 01:22:56

Sioux City Journal
7 January 2009

SIOUX CITY -- Peter "Pete" Maximona, 83, of Sioux City passed away Monday, Jan. 5, 2009.

Services will be 11 a.m. Thursday at Morningside Chapel, Christy-Smith Funeral Home, with the Rev. David Zirpel of Redeemer Lutheran Church officiating. Visitation with the family will be 10 a.m. until service time Thursday at the funeral home.

Pete was born May 9, 1925, in Sioux City, to Peter and Nadja (Kunowac) Maximona. He was baptized in the Russian Orthodox Church. He attended Hobson Grade School, Woodrow Wilson Junior High School and graduated from Trinity High School in 1943. He was a lifelong resident of Sioux City.

He was united in marriage to Ellen "Bobbi" Mahnke on May 28, 1949, at Riverside Lutheran Church in Sioux City. He was employed with Cudahy Packing Plant in Sioux City. He was later employed with Illinois Central Railroad for 33 years, retiring in 1987.

He belonged to such organizations as the United Transportation Union and was a charter member of the Queen of Peace at Trinity Heights.

He enjoyed playing recreation softball and basketball, bowling, golf and doing all of the above in leagues and tournaments. He also enjoyed playing cards at the Point After and being a Hawkeye and Cubs fan. He was a member of the Greater Siouxland Athletic Association. He also especially enjoyed spending time with his family.

Survivors include his wife, Bobbi of Sioux City; special nieces and nephews, April and Gerry Moore and their son, Andrew of Sioux City, Debby and Dewaine Anderson of Sioux City and their daughter, Brooke and Clint Craig and children, Madison, Trevor and Isabella, Jennifer and Jim Brown of Sioux City, Scott LaBane of Sioux City and Jack Mahnke of Sioux City; many other nieces and nephews; and brothers-in-law, Gerald and Colleen Mahnke of Citrus Heights, Calif., and Richard and Maggie Mahnke of Yerington, Nev.

He was preceded in death by a son, Jeffrey; his parents; sisters, Valentina LaBane and Mary and Alvin Edwards; and a brother, Guss and Kay Nemitz.

The family wishes those who remember how Pete lived his life could best serve his memory by doing an act of kindness for someone.