Lillian R. Brinkerhoff

SIOUX CITY -- Lillian R. Brinkerhoff, 90, of Sioux City passed away Thursday, July 8, 2010, at Countryside Retirement Home.

Services will be 10 a.m. Monday, July 12, 2010 at Meyer Brothers Colonial Chapel, with the Rev. Sylvia Kennedy officiating. Burial will follow in Logan Park Cemetery. Visitation will be 4 to 8 p.m. today, with family present beginning at 6 p.m., at the funeral home.

Lillian was born June 10, 1920, in Sioux City, to George and Alma (Martinson) Comstock. She was a lifelong resident of Sioux City, and married John Brinkerhoff on Feb. 4, 1939, in Le Mars, Iowa. She took great pride in being a homemaker, raising her children, sharing her creativity in the various crafts she mastered, especially being a seamstress, and making most of her children's clothing. She taught crafts for 10 years at the YWCA in Sioux City.

Lillian enjoyed music, singing and taught her children how to dance by having them stand on her feet. She was a member of Whitfield United Methodist Church.

Lillian is survived by her sons, Frank (Linda) Brinkerhoff and John Brinkerhoff Jr. of Sioux City; daughter, Peggy Stotz of Wickenburg, Ariz.; sister, Ramona Jessip of Sioux City; 10 grandchildren; and numerous great and great-great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, John in 1982; two brothers; and three sisters.