Catherine "Kay" Clark

Catherine “Kay” Clark, 91 of Holstein, Iowa formerly of Waterbury, Nebraska, South Sioux City, Spirit Lake, Iowa and Cushing, Iowa, passed away Sunday, November 9, 2014 at the Good Samaritan Care Center in Holstein.           Memorial services will be 10:30 Thursday at the Good Samaritan Society Care Center in Holstein with the Rev. Curtis Benson, pastor of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Holstein officiating.  Burial will be later in Oak Hill Cemetery in Anthon, Iowa.           Catherine June was born at home April 29, 1923 in Waterbury, Nebraska the daughter of Ralph W. and Marie P (Wixcel) Surber. She attended Waterbury School through the eleventh grade then attended South   Sioux City High School her senior year, graduating in 1940. She worked in the ship yards in Oregon during WW II.             She married W.L. “Red” Clark December 28, 1951 in Sioux City. She was employed at Younkers as a bookkeeper until in late the late 1950s. She was then employed at the Sioux City Stock Yards in the office.           Kay and Red moved to Spirit Lake, Iowa in 1964. In 1990 they moved to Cushing, Iowa. Her husband Red passed away June 8, 1999 in Sioux City.           Kay loved dogs, cats and birds and she and Red always had a big garden. Most of all Kay loved her family and friends.           Survivors include two brothers: Lawrence Surber and his wife Eleanor of Turlock, California, Ralph Surber of Ponca, Nebraska, and one sister Carol Angles of Sioux City, sister-in-law Virginia Fickle of Waterbury, Nebraska and brother-in-law Dean Clark of Sioux City, many precious nephews and nieces and great nephews and nieces and many friends and relatives whom she loved.           She was preceded in death by her parents, a niece Becky Clark and a nephew Gary Surber.           A special thanks to Good Samaritan Society in Holstein for taking such good care of Kay, she loved you all, and to Ranee Hanson for helping her so much.