Edmund A. Joseph Foix

SIOUX CITY -- Edmund A. Joseph "Ed" Foix, 96, of Sioux City left for heaven on Thursday, May 28, 2009, at Holy Spirit Retirement Home.

Services will be 10:45 a.m. Monday, June 1, 2009 at Holy Spirit Retirement Home Chapel, with the Rev. Dennis Meinen officiating. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery. Visitation with the family present will be 3 to 5 p.m. today, with a vigil service at 4 p.m., at Meyer Brothers Colonial Chapel. Condolences may be sent online to www.meyerbroschapels.com.

Edmund was born Aug. 31, 1912, in Benson, Minn., to Aaron A. and Armand M. (Mingo) Foix. He graduated from Sioux City Central High School in 1932. He married Edna A. Peltier on Aug. 19, 1939, in Sioux City at St. Jean-Baptize Catholic Church. To this union, Edmund and Edna had four children.

Ed worked for C.F. Hanson Auto Repair from 1932 until the late 1940s. He and his brother, Marcel, had their own auto mechanic shop for a few years. Edmund owned the Skelly Service Station at Fourth and John streets until joining Drummond Oil as a fuel truck driver. Ed then worked for Seig Auto Parts as a truck driver distributing auto parts to the Seig Stores in Northwest Iowa until his retirement at the age of 75 in 1987.

He was a longtime member of St. Boniface Catholic Church and the Men's Club.

Survivors include his wife, Edna of Sioux City; two daughters, Eleanor Ann Rosenbaum and her husband, H. Clyde of Jefferson, S.D., and Susan K. Haugen and her husband, Chuck of Sioux City; two sons, Earl J. "Bud" Foix and his wife, Sally of Omaha, Neb., and James W. Foix and his wife, Helen of Ponca, Neb.; a sister, Edna M. Wall of Stillwater, Minn.; two sisters-in-law, Dorothy Foix of Sioux City, and Rose Peltier of Minneapolis, Minn.; a special niece, Donna M. Ortt; 10 grandchildren, Brian (Kathy) Rosenbaum, Stephanie Rosenbaum and fiance, Gary Henry, Christoph (Susan) Foix, Laura Mathews, Leah (Cole) Knapp, Nick (Jennifer) Haugen, Ryan Haugen, Chris Haugen, Mona (Pat) DeWar and Joel (Kari) Foix; 16 great-grandchildren; a great-great-granddaughter; and many nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents and a brother, Marcel M. Foix.

Pallbearers will be his grandsons. Honorary pallbearers will be his granddaughters.

Memorials has been established in his name.