Darleen LaVonne (Potter) DORSCHNER

DORSCHNER, YOUNGERS, POTTER

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 1/14/2010 at 12:13:47

Mrs. Darleen Dorschner, age 92, of Orange City, Iowa passed away on Wednesday, January 6, 2010, at the Heritage House Nursing Home in Orange City. There will be a funeral service on Saturday, January 9, at 2:00pm, at the Oolman Funeral Home in Orange City. The Rev. Keith Krebs will officiate. Interment will follow at the West Lawn Cemetery in Orange City. Visitation with the family will be the hour before the service on Saturday at the funeral home.

Darleen LaVonne was born on February 19, 1917, in rural Bushnell, South Dakota, the daughter of Forest and Matilda (Youngers) Potter. When an infant, her family moved to a farm near Primghar, where she graduated from high school in 1935. On September 27, 1941, she married Orville Leland Dorschner in Clarion. During World War II, she was a school teacher in Moneta. After the war, they lived in Primghar for a short time and then settled in Orange City, where she was a homemaker. Mr. Dorschner passed away on January 24, 1982, in Mountain View, California. In 2002, Mrs. Dorschner became a resident of the Landsmeer Ridge Retirement Community in Orange City. In 2003, she transferred to the Heritage House.

She was a member of the American Reformed Church in Orange City, where she participated in the women's organizations. She was also active in the Orange City Community, especially with the Tulip Festival and Cub Scouts. She enjoyed fishing and gardening, particularly flowers, and she was an accomplished artist in both painting and drawing.

Survivors include her two sons and their wives, Kim and Linda Dorschner, of Randolph, Nebraska; and Jay and Janie Dorschner, of Orange City; six grandchildren, sixteen great-grandchildren; and a sister-in-law, Dortha Dorschner, of Minneapolis, Minnesota. In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by a brother, Forest, Jr., as a young child.

Memorials will be directed to Northwestern College in Orange City, for a scholarship in their theatre or art departments.

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