Rodney A. Livings

Rodney Almon Livings, 86, of Sioux City, died Dec. 11, 2013, at a Sioux City hospital following a short illness. Services will be 1 p.m. Saturday at First Presbyterian Church, with the Rev. Harold Tongen officiating. Entombment will be in Logan Park Mausoleum, with military rites conducted by the U.S. Army Reserves. Visitation will be 4 to 8 p.m. Friday, with the family present at 6 p.m., aprayer service at 7 p.m. followed by a Masonic service conducted by Lodge 103, all at Meyer Brothers Colonial Chapel. Mr. Livings was born on Dec. 26, 1926, in Davenport, Neb., the son of Harry George and Maud Amazona (Bailey) Livings. He graduated from Davenport High School in 1944. He enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps in June 1944 and served to the end of World War II. In 1949, he graduated from Creighton University in Omaha. On April 17, 1946, he was united in marriage to Iona N. Kee at First Presbyterian Church in O'Neill, Neb. They lived in Omaha and Centerville, Iowa, before moving to Sioux City in 1951 and had resided here since. His working career started at B.F. Goodrich in Centerville in 1949. In 1951, he took a position with the Sioux City Stockyards and Subsidiaries, Terminal Railway Company and Stockyards Service and Supply Company as a clerk and working up to chief clerk, secretary/treasurer and finally vice president of administration. After that company was bought out, Rodney became a real estate agent from 1989 to 1994 with Century 21. His last employment was as a board member on the Sioux City Board of Assessment and Review from 1989 to 2011. Rod was a member of First Presbyterian Church and held offices of ordained deacon, appointed elder and ruling elder. He was a Mason and belonged to Masonic Lodge Landmark 103, York Rite and Abu Bekr Shrine Temple. With his wife, he greatly enjoyed square and round dancing. He belonged to and officiated in various dance clubs. They had fun traveling and wintering in the Southwest. Genealogy was one of his passions along with designing computer spreadsheets and doing PowerPoint presentations. Those remaining to cherish his memory are a son, Randall Livings and wife, Wendy of Sioux City; three daughters, Jan Renee of Iowa City, Iowa, Kathryn J. Kennedy and husband, Shawn of Omaha, and Sharri A. Livings of Excelsior Springs Mo.; eight grandchildren, Peter Flynn, Ben Flynn and wife, Lesia, Molly Flynn, Maude Morris and husband, Brian, Richard Livings and fiancee, Christelle Enega, Robert Livings, Sara Kennedy, and Rachel Kennedy; and three great-grandchildren, Connor, Haylee and Sophia Flynn. He was preceded in death by his wife, Iona; his parents; his brother, Harry Bailey; and his sister, Ester Rae. Memorials may be directed to Hospice of Siouxland.