Dorothy May McArthur 1926 - 2022

MCARTHUR, CARR, MELLENBACH, MINES, HUBER

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 5/31/2022 at 13:21:55

Sioux City Journal
22 May 2022

Dorothy May McArthur, 95, lifelong resident of Sioux City passed away surrounded by her family on Thursday, May 19, 2022, in Sioux City.

Services will be at 1 p.m. on Thursday at Nativity Church of Mater Dei Parish, located at 4242 Natalia Way, in Sioux City with Rev. Michael Erpelding officiating. Burial will follow at Calvary Cemetery in Sioux City. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service at the church. Arrangements are with Christy-Smith Funeral Homes, Morningside Chapel.

Dorothy was born on Dec. 1, 1926, in Sioux City to William B. Carr and Katie Mellenbach; she was adopted by Lewis and Helen C. (Mines) Huber. She grew up attending Sioux City Schools, graduating from Central High School in 1946. She married Eugene N. McArthur on July 9, 1947, at St. Boniface Catholic Church in Sioux City. Dorothy was the former manager of the Morningside Dairy Queen and also worked for Woolworth's in the mid 1960s to the mid 1970s.

Dorothy was a member of the Nativity Catholic Church, Daughters off the American Revolution, Woodbury County Genealogy Society and the Red Hat Society.

She is survived by her daughter Regina "Gina" and her husband Don Hanna of Sioux City; grandson Lee Hanna and his wife Joan of Sioux City; three granddaughters Chaeli and her husband Andy Kohn of Sioux City, Stephanie and her husband Aaron Delair of Sioux City, and Rhiannon and her husband Jacob Trierweiler of Sioux City; nine great-grandchildren Nate, Eli, Star, Sadie, Ethan, Elliot, Julia, Nolan, and Clara; two sisters Rita Sebert of Sioux Falls, S.D., and Sister Ida Hericks of Watertown, S.D.; and several nieces and nephews.

Dorothy was preceded in death by her husband Eugene; son Alan; parents; and brother Paul Hericks.

Family wishes to thank St. Croix Hospice for the wonderful care Dorothy received.