1921
Mary
2011
Mary Katherine "Mary Kay" Tiedeman (Pint)
March 5, 1921 — April 11, 2011
SIOUX CITY -- Mary Katherine "Mary Kay" Tiedeman of Sioux City died Monday, April 11, 2011, in Omaha, surrounded by her family.
Services will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church in Sioux City, with Bishop R. Walker Nickless officiating and Monsignor Roger Augustine, the Rev. Merlin J. Schrad and the Rev. Edmond H. Tiedeman (nephew) concelebrating. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery. Visitation will be 4 to 8 p.m. today, with the family present 6 to 8 p.m. and a parish vigil service at 7 p.m., all at Larkin Chapel, Christy-Smith Funeral Home.
Mary Kay, the daughter of Leonard J. and Blanche (O'Toole) Pint, was born March 5, 1921, in Waterloo, Iowa. She graduated from St. Edmond High School in Fort Dodge, Iowa, St. Joseph Mercy Hospital School of Nursing in Fort Dodge and Briar Cliff College in Sioux City.
She met her future husband, Dr. John P. Tiedeman, on a Chicago-bound train in 1942, and they were married in Fort Dodge on Oct. 19, 1944. They moved to Sioux City in 1948. At the time of John's death on Dec. 30, 2008, they had been married for 64 years.
Mary Kay enjoyed reading, playing bridge, golf and spending time with friends and family. She loved the Blessed Mother and saying the rosary. She also put great faith in St. Anthony of Padua, patron saint of lost items. Over the years, she offered up more prayers and novenas than one could be reasonably expected to fulfill in one lifetime, but he always came through for her in locating her often misplaced purses, rings, keys, etc.
In March of this year, Mary Kay was the guest of honor at a family dinner celebrating her 90th birthday.
Survivors include her sons and daughter, John (Nan) Tiedeman Jr. of Omaha, Dr. Tom (Cindy) Tiedeman of Sioux City, Jim (Sue) Tiedeman of Sioux City, Joani Mullin (Mike) of Omaha, and Dr. Jeff (Nancy) Tiedeman of Omaha; 13 grandchildren, John III and Julie Tiedeman, Mary Tiedeman, Nickie Tiedeman-Visconti (Morgan), Leah Janke (Luke) and Molly Tiedeman, Melissa, Kelly, Megan and Matthew Mullin, Jeffrey Jr., Jill and Patrick Tiedeman; two great-grandchildren, Wyatt and Hazel Janke; as well as numerous nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; an infant son, Michael; and her sister, Yvonne "Bonnie" Doody.
Pallbearers will be her granddaughters.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in her memory to the Heelan Pride Campaign, Creighton Prep High School or the charity of the donor's choice.
To our mother, our matriarch, we love you, we miss you, we thank you. Your Children.
Services will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church in Sioux City, with Bishop R. Walker Nickless officiating and Monsignor Roger Augustine, the Rev. Merlin J. Schrad and the Rev. Edmond H. Tiedeman (nephew) concelebrating. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery. Visitation will be 4 to 8 p.m. today, with the family present 6 to 8 p.m. and a parish vigil service at 7 p.m., all at Larkin Chapel, Christy-Smith Funeral Home.
Mary Kay, the daughter of Leonard J. and Blanche (O'Toole) Pint, was born March 5, 1921, in Waterloo, Iowa. She graduated from St. Edmond High School in Fort Dodge, Iowa, St. Joseph Mercy Hospital School of Nursing in Fort Dodge and Briar Cliff College in Sioux City.
She met her future husband, Dr. John P. Tiedeman, on a Chicago-bound train in 1942, and they were married in Fort Dodge on Oct. 19, 1944. They moved to Sioux City in 1948. At the time of John's death on Dec. 30, 2008, they had been married for 64 years.
Mary Kay enjoyed reading, playing bridge, golf and spending time with friends and family. She loved the Blessed Mother and saying the rosary. She also put great faith in St. Anthony of Padua, patron saint of lost items. Over the years, she offered up more prayers and novenas than one could be reasonably expected to fulfill in one lifetime, but he always came through for her in locating her often misplaced purses, rings, keys, etc.
In March of this year, Mary Kay was the guest of honor at a family dinner celebrating her 90th birthday.
Survivors include her sons and daughter, John (Nan) Tiedeman Jr. of Omaha, Dr. Tom (Cindy) Tiedeman of Sioux City, Jim (Sue) Tiedeman of Sioux City, Joani Mullin (Mike) of Omaha, and Dr. Jeff (Nancy) Tiedeman of Omaha; 13 grandchildren, John III and Julie Tiedeman, Mary Tiedeman, Nickie Tiedeman-Visconti (Morgan), Leah Janke (Luke) and Molly Tiedeman, Melissa, Kelly, Megan and Matthew Mullin, Jeffrey Jr., Jill and Patrick Tiedeman; two great-grandchildren, Wyatt and Hazel Janke; as well as numerous nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; an infant son, Michael; and her sister, Yvonne "Bonnie" Doody.
Pallbearers will be her granddaughters.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in her memory to the Heelan Pride Campaign, Creighton Prep High School or the charity of the donor's choice.
To our mother, our matriarch, we love you, we miss you, we thank you. Your Children.
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