Lorna Buss 1923 - 2001

BUSS, ROCK, ALTHAUS

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 10/16/2021 at 23:04:46

Sioux City Journal
31 May 2001

Lorna Buss, 78, of Sioux City died Monday, May 28, 2001, at a Sioux City hospital.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. today at Calvary Lutheran Church with the Rev. Glen Rachuy officiating. Graveside services will be 2 p.m. today in Fairfield Cemetery, Rock Branch, Iowa. Arrangements are under the direction of Nelson-Berger Northside Chapel.

Mrs. Buss was born Feb. 21, 1923, near Pierson, Iowa, the daughter of William and Amelia (Rock) Althaus. She graduated from Grand Meadow School in 1940. She graduated from Westmar College with a teaching certificate in 1942. She taught primary school in Anthon-Oto for three years.

She married Fred Buss on Dec. 18, 1943, in Correctionville, Iowa. She was a homemaker. The couple moved to Sioux City in 1953. Her husband died June 7, 1988.

She was a member of Calvary Lutheran Church and a church circle. She enjoyed gardening, sewing and oil painting. Many of her paintings have been displayed in local exhibitions.

Survivors include a son, Michael of Virginia Beach, Va.; three daughters, Marjean Altemeier, Mary Buss Carroll and Betsy Buss and her husband, Mark Chaffin, all of Minneapolis, Minn.; six grandchildren, Dawn Scott, Larry, Lana and Diana Buss, John Altemeier and Fred Hunt; two great-grandchildren; a brother and his wife, William and Marlene Althaus of Kenyon, Minn.; two sisters-in-law, Dorothy Althaus of Hinton, Iowa, and Edna Anderson of Washington; and many nieces and nephews.

She also was preceded in death by a son, Daniel; and two brothers, Herbert and Bruce Althaus.

Pallbearers will be Larry and Mike Buss, Mark Chaffin, Bill Althaus, Fred Hunt and David Brancheau.