CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - OBITUARY OF Lottie G. Dirks

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Lottie G. Dirks

COLERIDGE - Lottie G. Dirks, 87, died July 29, 1999 at Parkway Health 
Care Center, Wheaton, Ill.

Visitation was Aug. 1, at the Wintz Funeral Home, Coleridge.

Funeral services were Aug. 2, at Immanuel Lutheran Church, Coleridge, 
with Rev. Norm Sulaica officiating.

Burial was in Lawn Ridge Cemetery, Coleridge.

Pallbearers were Monte Dirks, Tim Dirks, Doug Butcher, Reggie Butcher, 
Bob Steffen, Tom Steffen, Larry Konken and Claude Mathiason.

Lottie was born July 27, 1912, to James and Theda (Janssen) Steffen in 
Hartington.

On Feb. 12, 1934, she married William H. Dirks in Coleridge.  He died 
March 2, 1974.

She grew up in Hartington and graduated from Hartington Public School.  
She lived and farmed in Cedar County until 1963 when she moved to 
Council Bluffs, Iowa.  She then lived in Wheaton, Ill., with her 
daughter Joyce.  The last several years Helen has been a resident of 
the Parkway Health Care Center in Wheaton.

Survivors include a daughter and spouse, Joyce and James Anderson, 
Wheaton, Ill.; a son and spouse, Donovan and Verneta Dirks, Omaha, 
five grandchildren and spouses, Denise and Frank Lauer, Douglas and 
Debra Butcher, Reggie and Susan Butcher and Tim and Monte Dirks; ten 
great-grandchildren and many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her husband and son, Lowell Dirks, three 
sisters:  Minnia Meier, Maria Konken and Theda Mathiason; and two 
brothers: Tom Steffen and Ernest Steffen.

 

 

Wednesday, Aug. 4, 1999-CEDAR COUNTY NEWS

MAIDEN:  LOTTIE STEFFEN