Marilyn Jean Morin

Marilyn J. Morin of Sioux City died Sunday, Feb. 22, 2009, at Sunrise Retirement Community.

Services will be 1 p.m. Friday at Grace United Methodist Church in Sioux City, with the Rev. Valerie Heller 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 Meyer Brothers Morningside Chapel. Condolences may be sent online to www.meyerbroschapels.com.

Marilyn J. Morin was born May 16, 1934, in Sioux City, the daughter of Emory and Dorothy (Jacobson) Hostetler. She graduated from East High School with the class of 1952. She then attended Cerritos College in Cerritos, Calif.

She married Robert Wayne Traudt (deceased) and they had two sons, Michael Robert and Mark Patrick. She married Robert D. Osmann (deceased) and they had a son, Brian D. Osmann. She then married Joseph A. Morin, also deceased.

She was employed for 29 years with the city of Norwalk, Calif., as a public information specialist and executive secretary. She had served as Norwalk's city employees' president as well as the Norwalk community coordinating council. She resided in California from 1958 to 2002, when she returned to Sioux City to care for her mother, Dorothy Riley.

In California, she was a member of Norwalk Kiwanis, where she received the George F. Hixon Award from her club. She was a charter PTA president of Rose School PTA in Escondido, Calif. She was vice president of Xi Lambda Delta of Beta Sigma Phi. She was awarded WE TIP's (We Turn In Pushers) Women of the Year Award for California and later served in the board of directors. In Sioux City, she was a member of Grace United Methodist Church.

She was the initiator and served at the helm of a local effort to stop the sale of drugs to children, securing the endorsements of many civic and service clubs and 640,000 signatures of individuals. The documents were presented to then attorney general Eville Younger.

Survivors include three sons, Michael Robert Traudt of Sioux City, Mark Patrick Traudt and his wife, Sue of Chino, Calif., and Brian D. Osmann and his wife, Wendy of Santa Rosa, Calif.; a brother, Ron Hostetler and his wife, Kathy of Sergeant Bluff; eight grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents; three husbands; and her stepfather, Desmond Riley.

Memorials may be directed to the Ronald McDonald House, Grace United Methodist Church music fund or children's cancer.