Ida Christine Stone (Sprenger)

SIOUX CITY -- Ida Christine Stone, 98, of Sioux City died Sunday, March 7, 2010, at Touchstone Living Center in Sioux City.
Services will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Morningside Chapel, Christy-Smith Funeral Home, with the Rev. Terry Fetterman officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Visitation will be 9 a.m. until service time Saturday at the funeral home. Condolences may be sent online to christysmith.com.
Ida was born Wednesday, Jan. 31, 1912, in Akron, Iowa, the daughter of Louis Sprenger and Florence (Waterbury) Sprenger. She graduated from Akron High School in 1931 and later moved to Sioux City.
She married William Sever in August 1936. He passed away on Feb. 19, 1938. She later married George V. Stone on June 8, 1940. He passed away Dec. 12, 1972.
She was a homemaker, a practical nurse, a cook at various restaurants and an employee at Morningside College.
She was a founding member of Tri-State Christian Church and a lifelong member of the Order of the Eastern Star. She enjoyed cooking, baking, gardening, baby-sitting her grandchildren and volunteering at church.
Survivors include her sons, Robert Stone and his wife, Gayle of Sioux City and William Stone and his wife, JoAnn of South Bend, Ind.; a stepson, Neal Sever and his wife, Marion of Pittsburgh, Pa.; five grandchildren, Jeff, Julie, Rick, Mike and Chris Stone; five great-grandchildren; and various nieces, nephews and cousins.
She was preceded in death by her two husbands; two sisters, Florence Moss and Helen Klemme; and a brother, Louis Sprenger Jr.
Pallbearers will be Jeff, Rick, Mike Chris and Nick Stone, Mychel Michalski and Norvin Moss.