CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - OBITUARY OF LaVerne Julie Dorsey

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Wednesday, Feb. 3, 1999

HARTINGTON - LaVerne Julie Dorsey, 92, died Jan. 26, 1999, at Indian 
Hills Care Center, Sioux City, Iowa. 

Services were Feb. 1, at Holy Trinity Catholic Church, Hartington with 
Rev. Stan Schmidt officiating. 

Burial was held at the St. Michael's cemetery, Hartington. 

Pallbearers were Gerry Stevens, Ellwin Jordan, Bill Yates, Max Rossiter, 
Tom Steffen and V.E. Rossiter, Jr. 

LaVerne was born March 24, 1906, to Dr. H.S. "Henry Samuel" and Martha L. 
(Murphy) Matthews in Yankton, S.D. LaVerne graduated from Yankton High 
School. She then graduated from Mercy Hospital School of Nursing at Loyola 
University, Chicago, Ill. in 1928 with a degree in nursing. She married 
Dr. Francis P. Dorsey Oct. 29, 1932, in Yankton. He died May 4, 1959. She 
has lived in Hartington ever since her marriage in 1932. She opened the 
Cedars Nursing Center in 1966 and was the administrator for 12 years. She 
was a member of the Catholic Daughters of America and Holy Trinity Catholic 
Church, Hartington. 

Survivors include one sister, Margaret (Ferguson) Foster, Sioux City, 
Iowa; two nephews, Terry Ferguson, Omaha, and Dr. Michael Gibson, Mesa, Ariz. 

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband; and sister, Adelyne Gibson.


Wednesday, Feb. 3, 1999 CEDAR COUNTY NEWS