Robert Francis "Bob" Danielson

Robert F. Danielson, 73, of South Sioux City, NE, died peacefully at home after a brief battle with cancer. A Celebration of Life Service will be at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, November 9, 2024 at Mohr & Becker-Hunt Funeral Home with Reverend Sandra Braasch of the Salem Lutheran Church, officiating. Visitation, with the family present, will begin at 11:00 a.m. Saturday morning prior to the service. Online condolences may be offered at www.meyerbroschapels.com

Bob was born on April 28, 1951, to Roy and Agnes (Dineen) Danielson. He attended St. Michael's Catholic School and gave Emerson High School and South Sioux City High School a run for their money before completing his studies at Western Iowa Tech. He married Laura McDuff on September 23, 1973, and they brought three daughters into the world (whom, if they misbehaved, he was quick to remind he could take out of this world, too).

Bob was a jack of all trades, lending his fix-it talents and good humor to a number of lumber companies, car dealerships, construction outfits, retail stores, and printing shops. The rich tones of his voice were perfect for DJing, which he did for KWSL and KMCX radio stations, letting his daughters press the buttons to play the ads or start the songs. He acted as a handyman and night manager for a motel and sold fencing for a number of years. If Bob wasn’t the guy who could fix the thing for you, then you could bet your bottom dollar he knew the guy who could. Along the way, he started the Oregon Trails Home Builder Association in Ogallala, Nebraska, and served in leadership roles for the Jaycees in Ogallala and South Sioux City.

A musician, Bob was always in the middle of a song. He played drums in the undiscovered gems Danielson, Frankl, & King, Country Sunshine, and the Lou Krauss Band, and penned the tune “I Remember the Year (That Cornhusker Football Died)” which received a fair amount of spins on local stations during the Bill Callahan era. He met and married his match, Kathy (Vail) Danielson, on April 1, 1995, and they moved into his childhood home in South Sioux City, NE, where he could often be found holding court on the back patio, hatching elaborate leisure-improvement schemes and buying the oddest items online: a relaxing outdoor fountain perched upon by a gargoyle with glowing green eyes, 24 pallets of musical Beethoven busts, an MG from the 1950s, and more unique treasures scoured from the corners of the internet. When not entertaining family and friends with the one and only Bob Show, he painted genuinely adequate masterpieces á la Bob Ross and let Alexa know who truly reigned supreme on music trivia. "Every day is a bonus," Bob was fond of saying, and he lived as such, a joke in the queue and an open invitation to sit for a spell and share a laugh.

Bob is survived by his wife, Kathy; his daughters Jennifer (Jeff) Nielsen, Sara Danielson (Brook Hamrick), and Megan Danielson (John Amgwert); stepson Matthew (Barb) Vail; his grandchildren Elizabeth, Mary, and Caroline, Miles and Nora, Elliot and Charlotte, Jase, McKennen, and Alayna, Emmett, Indy and Nathan; brothers John, Daniel, and Jeff; sisters Mary (Dave) Burns, Eileen Wolf, and Peg (Joe) Moritz. He is preceded in death by his parents, sister Sharon Hartnett, and brother Ricky.