Dorothy J. Hanks 1926 - 1996

HANKS, HARSH, INGRAM

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 3/4/2021 at 00:39:06

Sioux City Journal
26 December 1996

Dorothy J. Hanks, 70, of Sioux City died Sunday, Dec. 22, 1996 at her residence.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Calvary Lutheran Church, with the Rev. Gerald Kapanka officiating. Burial will be in Grant Cemetery in Rodney, Iowa. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. today, with the family present from 6 to 8 p.m., at the Nelson-Berger Northside Funeral Home.

Mrs. Hanks was born Feb. 27, 1926, in Onawa, Iowa, the daughter of Harold and Eva Maude (Harsh) Ingram. She graduated from Mapleton High School and Westmar College. She married Dale Hanks on Feb. 28, 1946, in Onawa. He died in 1981. She was employed at Zenith as a production worker and for the last 16 years, she was a full-time child care provider in the Leeds area.

She was a member of Calvary Lutheran Church, where she was a member of the Dorcus Circle. She was a school tutor and enjoyed sewing and fishing.

Survivors include three sons, Donald of Sioux City, Ronald and his wife Dawn of Climbing Hill, Iowa and Lyle and his wife Rosie of Hinton, Iowa; three daughters, Sharon and Joyce Mead both of Sioux City and Sandy and her husband Randy Grasz of Merrill, Iowa; 20 grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; three brothers, Paul and Roger and his wife Kay all of Mapleton, Iowa and Newell and his wife Janice of Danbury, Iowa; and two sisters, Margaret and her husband Jim Weidman of Aurora, Ill. and Gertrude Ingram of Sheridan, Ill.

She was preceded in death by her parents; and a grandson, Corey.

Pallbearers will be Harold Broderson, Reggie McCloud, Bill Heckert, Ron Watt, Brian Albertson and Danny Gross.