Jean Elizabeth Dyvad-Bartholomew, 87, of Sioux City, formerly Storm Lake, Iowa, died on Friday, April 26, 2013, in Sioux City.
Services will be 11 a.m. Friday at Morningside Presbyterian Church, with the Rev. David Koehler officiating. Interment will be 11 a.m. Saturday in Buena Vista Memorial Park Cemetery at Storm Lake. Visitation will be 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday at Morningside Chapel, Christy-Smith Funeral Home, 1801 Morningside Ave., Sioux City. Online condolences may be made to the family at
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Jean was born Feb. 27, 1926, to Forrest and Jessie (Bringgold) Chapin in Wasioja Township in Dodge County, Minn. She graduated from West Concord High School in West Concord, Minn., and attended St. Mary's College of Nursing at Rochester, Minn., graduating with a nursing degree. She then attended the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minn., obtaining her degree in elementary education.
She married Harvey Dyvad on Feb. 4, 1951, in Old Concord, Minn. The couple made their home in Storm Lake, Iowa. He died Nov. 15, 1982. She married Robert Bartholomew on Feb. 24, 1996 in Storm Lake. Jean worked at University of Minnesota hospitals and then started the OBGYN unit at Buena Vista County hospital in 1951 and worked there in various capacities for 21 years. Jean then was the school nurse at Storm Lake Community Schools for 17 years, retiring in 1989.
She was a member of Morningside Presbyterian Church.
Survivors include daughter, Ann and Dan Pyle of Pella, Iowa; son, Jim Dyvad of San Francisco, Calif.; stepson, Neil and Lesley Bartholomew of Sioux City; six grandchildren, Valerie and Akim Nilausen and their son, Gabriel of Newton, Iowa, Melissa and Jacob Berger and their son, Jackson of Pella, Iowa, Rachel Bartholomew of Sioux City, Kenny Bartholomew of Sioux City, Jill Walden of Iowa City, Iowa, Sean Weston of Seattle, Wash.; a brother, John and Shirley Chapin of Dodge Center, Minn.; sister, Julie and David Kelm of Apple Valley, Minn.; brother-in-laws, David and Martha Bartholomew of Dundee, Ill., and Harold and Joyce Dyvad of Buda, Texas;and longtime friend, Harold Geisinger of Storm Lake.
Preceding her in death were her first husband, Harvey Dyvad; her second husband, Robert Bartholomew; stepdaughter, Susan Weston; brother, James Chapin; sister-in-laws, Doris Miller; and sister-in-law, Margaret Bodholtz.