Lillian Rose Durig (Bliss)

SOUTH SIOUX CITY -- Lillian "Rose" Durig, 84, of South Sioux City died Monday, Aug. 8, 2011, at Westwood Nursing & Rehab Center in Sioux City as a result of ALS, Lou Gehrig's disease.
Services will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday at St. Michael's Catholic Church in South Sioux City. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Visitation will be 4 to 8 p.m. today, with family present 6 to 8 p.m. and a parish vigil at 7 p.m., at Morningside Chapel, Christy-Smith Funeral Homes in Sioux City.
Rose was born May 13, 1927, in Rodney, Iowa, the daughter of John and Lillian (Anderson) Bliss. She moved with her family to Wynot, Neb., where she attended school through the 10th grade. Rose then moved with her family to Sioux City, where she graduated from Cathedral Catholic High School in 1946.
She married Maurice A. Durig on June 16, 1947 at St. Boniface Catholic Church. Together they made their home in Sioux City. Over the years, Rose worked at Younkers, Green Acres Nursing Home and Sioux City Battery. In 1980 Rose and Maurice moved to South Sioux City. Maurice died June 11, 1993.
Rose was a member of St. Michael's Catholic Church in South Sioux City and Catholic Daughters.
Survivors include two daughters, Terry Bray and Sue and John Conway, all of South Sioux City; two grandchildren, Cindy Paasch and Chad Bray; two great-grandchildren, Richard Paasch and Danae Bray; a brother, Ray and Wanda Bliss of Sequoia, Texas; and sister, Lorraine Wilson of Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; five brothers, Francis, Bill, Basil, Vincent and Robert; and one sister, Nellie Harbeck.