Geneva Helen (Young) BEYER BOHAN

BOHAN, OLSON, YOUNG, BEYER

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 12/29/2007 at 22:49:49

December 8, 2005
Sioux City Journal, IA

Geneva Helen Bohan, 91, of Sioux City died Sunday, Dec. 4, 2005, at Holy Spirit Retirement Home. Services will be 10 a.m. Friday at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church, with the Rev. Merlin J. Schrad, pastor, and the Rev. Harold J. Buse, pastor of St. Leo The Great Church in Omaha, officiating. Graveside services will be 2 p.m. Friday in St. Michael Cemetery, West Point, Neb. Visitation will be 1 to 9 p.m. today, with a Catholic Daughters of America rosary at 4 p.m. and a parish vigil service at 7 p.m., at Larkin Northside Funeral Home.

Geneva was born Sept. 6, 1914, in Pender, Neb., the daughter of Sydney and Hanna (Olson) Young. She lived in Pender from 1914 to 1935. She attended Wayne State College in Wayne, Neb., from 1932 to 1934. She moved to Bancroft, Neb., in 1935 and moved to Eagle Grove, Iowa, in 1939. She moved to Sioux City in 1947. She received her bachelor of arts degree in education from Morningside College in January 1954. She married Francis Beyer in May 1935, in West Point, Neb. He died Feb. 18, 1949, in Sioux City. She married Edward Bohan in June 1954, in Sioux City. He died Dec. 6, 1982, in Sioux City. She taught at North Junior High School as a English and liberal arts teacher from 1951 to 1964. She then taught at Hoover Junior High School from 1965 to 1980. She held a leadership position in the Junior Red Cross at Hoover Junior High School. She was a member of Immaculate Conception Catholic Church from 1942 to 1950. She had been a member of Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church from 1950 to present. She also was a member of the Catholic Daughters of America Ave Maria Court 269. She belonged to the Women's Golf Association, a member of the Literary Book Club and the Does of the Sioux City Elks Lodge. Her passions were teaching young people, music, dancing and golf.

Survivors include three sons and their wives, Robert K. "Bob" and Mary Beyer of Vienna, Va., F. Richard "Dick" and Monica Beyer of Seattle, Wash., and John M. "Jack" and Patty Beyer of Sioux City; seven grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husbands; a sister, Marjorie Young; and two brothers, Ernest and Forrest Young. Memorials in her name may be directed to Holy Spirit Retirement Home.