Barbara Frances Green

HUBBARD, Neb. -- Barbara Frances (Corrigan) Green, 81, of Dakota City, formerly of Hubbard, passed away Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010, at a South Sioux City nursing home following a brief illness.

Services will be 11 a.m. Saturday at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Hubbard. Burial will be in St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service Saturday at the church. Arrangements are under the direction of Meyer Brothers Colonial Chapel in Sioux City.

Barbara was born May 24, 1928, in Bemidgi, Minn., to Raymond P. and Barbara (Boniger) Corrigan. She moved to Sioux City with her family in 1935. She attended Cathedral Grade School, West Junior High School in the ninth grade and graduated from Central High School in 1945. She worked at J.C. Penney's Co. until 1949.

On Aug. 20, 1949, she was united in marriage to William J. Green at Cathedral of the Epiphany in Sioux City. The couple farmed on the Green farm in Hubbard, where William was born. They were blessed with two daughters, Mary and Kathleen, who with their parents, were active in the business of the family farm. In May 1996, the couple retired from farming and moved to Dakota City. On Nov. 16, 2001, William died in Sioux City.

The couple were members of St. Mary's Catholic Church in Hubbard.

She is survived by two daughters, Mary and her husband, Mark Dorcey of Dakota City and Kathleen and her husband, Duane Polodna of Omaha; grandchildren, Angela Polodna Brunker and her husband, Jason of Phoenix, Ariz., and Brian Green Polodna of Tempe, Ariz.; a brother, Patrick Corrigan and his wife, Sandie of Sioux City; and a sister-in-law, Mardelle Corrigan of Highlands Ranch, Colo.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, William; brothers, Raymond and Thomas Corrigan; and a sister, Phyllis Wiltgen.

Pallbearers will be Brian Green Polodna, Marc Corrigan, Dennis Wiltgen, Dan Wiltgen, Ed Wiltgen, Tony Wiltgen and Russ Wiltgen. Honorary pallbearers will be Joe and Charlyne McKivergan, Ray and Eloise Gormally, John Hayes and Lynn and the late Francis Lussier.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Alzheimer's Association or St. Mary's Cemetery Fund.