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Delores Shirk | Visitation:
Monday, October 5, 2009
4:00 PM until 8:00 PM
Martin-Mattice Funeral Home
Emmetsburg, IA
Service:
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
10:30 AM
Holy Family Catholic Church
Emmetsburg, IA
Special Services:
Parish Vigil Service at 7:30 p.m. Monday evening at the funeral home.
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Delores A. Shirk
February 27, 1935 ~ October 3, 2009
SERVICE
Holy Family Catholic Church
Emmetsburg, Iowa
Tuesday, October 6, 2009, 10:30 A.M.
CELEBRANT
Msgr. Michael Sernett
Immaculate Conception Catholic Church
Graettinger, Iowa
MUSIC
Holy Family Parish Funeral Choir
CASKET BEARERS
Delores’s Grandchildren
INTERMENT
St. John’s Catholic Cemetery
Emmetsburg, Iowa
Delores Ann Shirk, daughter of Magnus and Gertrude (Wagner) Studer, was born February 27, 1935 in Mallard, Iowa. Delores received her education in Mallard graduating from Mallard High School in 1953.
On May 9, 1954, Delores was united in marriage to John Shirk at the Little Brown Church in Nashua, Iowa. To this union four children were born.
Delores was employed at Joyce’s Foodland for twenty years. She will always be remembered for the years she worked in the deli and the wonderful service she gave her patrons.
Delores was a member of Holy Family Catholic Church in Emmetsburg. She was a devoted wife, mother and grandmother. Delores enjoyed cooking and canning and she also did crocheting.
Delores passed away Saturday, October 3, 2009 at the Emmetsburg Care Center at the age of 74. She was preceded in death by her parents; brothers, August, Magnus, and Alphonsus Studer; and a sister, Mary Studer.
She is survived by her husband, John of Emmetsburg, IA; her children, Doug Shirk and his wife, Patty of Emmetsburg, IA, David Shirk of Emmetsburg, IA, Diane Schachtner and her husband, Tom of Emmetsburg, IA and Dan Shirk and his girlfriend, Jenna Bulfer of Emmetsburg, IA; seven grandchildren; three great grandchildren; three brothers, George Studer of Emmetsburg, IA, John Studer of Graettinger, IA and Bob Studer of Plover, IA; as well as many other relatives and friends.
Arrangements by Martin-Mattice Funeral Home
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