1932
Olive
2007
Olive Rae Rorris (Hofstad)
July 29, 1932 — July 14, 2007
Olive Rae Rorris, 74, of Sioux City died Saturday, July 14, 2007, at Indian Hills Care Center after a brief illness.
Services will be 1 p.m. Wednesday at Christy-Smith Morningside Chapel, with Associate Pastor Renee Spaulding of Morningside Lutheran Church officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Visitation will be 4 to 8 p.m. today, with the family present 6 to 8 p.m. and a prayer service at 7 p.m., at the funeral home.
Olive was born on July 29, 1932, in Elk Point, S.D., the daughter of Mayer S. and Ruby H. (Green) Hofstad. She attended grade school in Elk Point. The family moved to Sioux City when she was a young girl. She then attended West Junior High School in Sioux City. She graduated from Central High School in 1950.
She married Ted G. Rorris on Aug. 11, 1950, at Trinity Lutheran Church in Sioux City. Olive was employed as a seamstress for Bush Cleaners for the last 29 years.
She was a member of Morningside Lutheran Church. Olive was a gifted seamstress, who loved sharing her joys through sewing and cooking for family and friends. Her treasures and memories will truly live on in all the people's lives she has touched. Olive also kept quite busy attending her grandchildren's many, many activities.
Survivors include her husband, Ted G. Rorris of Sioux City; her children, Greg Rorris and his wife, Laurie of Sioux City, Connie Hansel and her husband, Brent of Sioux City, Mitchell Rorris and his wife, Diane of Sioux City, Teresa Swaney and her husband, Kevin of Sioux City and Julie Gordon and her husband, Tracy of Sioux Falls, S.D.; her sisters, Betty Isaacson of Scottsdale, Ariz., Nancy Sorenson and her husband, Don of Denver, Colo. and Patty Stansbury and Dick Muir of Leewood, Kan.; eight grandchildren, Kimberly Combs and her husband, Dusty, Brian Rorris, Maddison Parmelee, Megan Rorris, Kelsey Swaney, Spencer Parmelee, Nellie Rorris and Sophie Gordon; two stepgrandchildren, Meghan Gordon and Amanda Gordon; and two great-grandchildren, Dominick Combs and Gabriel Combs.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her brother, Robert Hofstad; and her sister, Gayle Jean Harvey.
Pallbearers will be Tracy Gordon, Brent Hansel, Kevin Swaney, Brian Rorris, Spencer Parmelee and Doug Harvey.
Services will be 1 p.m. Wednesday at Christy-Smith Morningside Chapel, with Associate Pastor Renee Spaulding of Morningside Lutheran Church officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Visitation will be 4 to 8 p.m. today, with the family present 6 to 8 p.m. and a prayer service at 7 p.m., at the funeral home.
Olive was born on July 29, 1932, in Elk Point, S.D., the daughter of Mayer S. and Ruby H. (Green) Hofstad. She attended grade school in Elk Point. The family moved to Sioux City when she was a young girl. She then attended West Junior High School in Sioux City. She graduated from Central High School in 1950.
She married Ted G. Rorris on Aug. 11, 1950, at Trinity Lutheran Church in Sioux City. Olive was employed as a seamstress for Bush Cleaners for the last 29 years.
She was a member of Morningside Lutheran Church. Olive was a gifted seamstress, who loved sharing her joys through sewing and cooking for family and friends. Her treasures and memories will truly live on in all the people's lives she has touched. Olive also kept quite busy attending her grandchildren's many, many activities.
Survivors include her husband, Ted G. Rorris of Sioux City; her children, Greg Rorris and his wife, Laurie of Sioux City, Connie Hansel and her husband, Brent of Sioux City, Mitchell Rorris and his wife, Diane of Sioux City, Teresa Swaney and her husband, Kevin of Sioux City and Julie Gordon and her husband, Tracy of Sioux Falls, S.D.; her sisters, Betty Isaacson of Scottsdale, Ariz., Nancy Sorenson and her husband, Don of Denver, Colo. and Patty Stansbury and Dick Muir of Leewood, Kan.; eight grandchildren, Kimberly Combs and her husband, Dusty, Brian Rorris, Maddison Parmelee, Megan Rorris, Kelsey Swaney, Spencer Parmelee, Nellie Rorris and Sophie Gordon; two stepgrandchildren, Meghan Gordon and Amanda Gordon; and two great-grandchildren, Dominick Combs and Gabriel Combs.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her brother, Robert Hofstad; and her sister, Gayle Jean Harvey.
Pallbearers will be Tracy Gordon, Brent Hansel, Kevin Swaney, Brian Rorris, Spencer Parmelee and Doug Harvey.
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