Dolores Theresa (Hart) STEVENSON

STEVENSON, HART, REILLEY, EGGERMONT, SHAY, BANDIERA

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 11/11/2010 at 09:50:19

November 11, 2010
Fort Dodge Messenger, Iowa

December 8, 1913 -- November 9, 2010

Dolores T. Stevenson, 96, of Fort Dodge, died Tuesday, November 9, 2010, at the Bickford Cottages. According to her wishes, her body was donated to the Creighton University Medical Center. A Mass of Christian Burial will be 10:30 a.m. Friday at Corpus Christi Church. There will be no visitation. Burial will be held at a later date at Corpus Christi Cemetery. Laufersweiler-Sievers Funeral Home is serving the family.

Dolores Theresa Hart was born December 8, 1913 in Fort Dodge, Iowa to James and Margaret (Reilley) Hart. At an early age, she moved with her family to Clarion where she received most of her formal education. In her senior year, the family returned to Fort Dodge and she graduated from Fort Dodge Senior High School in 1931. She then attended Tobin Business College. Following her education, she worked at a law firm. On September 2, 1940, she was married to Julius Stevenson at Sacred Heart Church and they later divorced. She was employed as Executive Secretary for the Director of the University Of Iowa Hospitals in Iowa City for a period of time. In 1949 she returned to Fort Dodge and became employed for Drs. Sanders and Gower, where she worked for the next 30 years, retiring in 1979. She was a member of Holy Trinity Parish, the Women's Guild, Catholic Daughters of the Americas, Care Review Committee at the Marian Home for 50 years, and served as a board member at the Marian Home.

Surviving is her daughter, Mary Eggermont and her husband Al of Surprise, AZ; granddaughter, Mary Shay of Cambridge, MN; grandsons, Dan Bandiera of Phoenix, AZ, Tom Bandiera of Glendale, AZ, Joe Bandiera and Matthew Bandiera, both of San Francisco, CA; Rev. Sam Bandiera of Omaha, NE; eight great-grandchildren; brother, Ray Hart of The Plains, OH. She was preceded in death by her parents, three sisters, one brother, and her dear friend, Bette Brown. The family requests memorials be made to Holy Trinity Parish or to Iowa Hospice.