Darrelene “Dee” Hobson Sarcone, 92, died on 8/16/10 at Spring, Texas of complications from a stroke. Her family was by her side.
A service will be held on 8/21/10 at McLarens Resthaven Chapel in West Des Moines, Ia. The funeral home can be contacted at 515-225-7225 for further details.
Dee was born March 24, 1918 in Spencer, Iowa, to A.O. and Ethel Cobbs. She graduated from North High School and Frances Shimer College in Mount Carroll, Illinois, where she studied creative writing.
She married Thomas Oliver Hobson of Coon Rapids, Iowa at the summer home of her parents at Lake Okoboji, Iowa, in 1938. They moved to Des Moines where she lived most of her life. Dee enjoyed being a homemaker and mother of three
After Tom died in 1983 she married John J. Sarcone. After his death she lived with her daughter Peggy in Waukee, Iowa and then with her daughter Patty in Spring, Texas.
Dee is survived by her twin daughters Pam Samland of Golden, CO, and Pat Unrau of Spring, TX, and daughter Peg Dahlke of Waukee, IA; sons-in-law Will Samland and Jerry Unrau; seven grandchildren: Wes, Wendy, Jeff (wife Judi), Jill, Luke, J.J. and Abbie, who knew her as Gramma “Hobcone”; and two great-grandchildren: Sarah and Maya. She was preceded in death by two husbands and her younger brother, Gordon R. Cobbs.
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Darrelene “Dee” Hobson Sarcone, 92, died on 8/16/10 at Spring, Texas of complications from a stroke. Her family was by her side.
A service will be held on 8/21/10 at McLarens Resthaven Chapel in West Des Moines, Ia. The funeral home can be contacted at 515-225-7225 for further details.
Dee was born March 24, 1918 in Spencer, Iowa, to A.O. and Ethel Cobbs. She graduated from North High School and Frances Shimer College in Mount Carroll, Illinois, where she studied creative writing.
She married Thomas Oliver Hobson of Coon Rapids, Iowa at the summer home of her parents at Lake Okoboji, Iowa, in 1938. They moved to Des Moines where she lived most of her life. Dee enjoyed being a homemaker and mother of three
daughters. Volunteer work was a part of her life. When her family was young, she worked as a secretary in her father’s manufacturing business. She loved to read about business, child rearing and current events. Cooking nutritious meals was important to her. She enjoyed golf and water skiing. She helped her husband build a summer cabin on Lake Vermillion in northern Minnesota, doing all the work themselves. With the children grown, she returned to work as head of the baby department at the Merle Hay Younkers store. She was a member of Westminster Presbyterian church in Des Moines and an active member of P.E.O. She was a quiet, strong woman. Quote to one of her daughters “Your mom is such a sweet lady, so refined, always a lady”.
After Tom died in 1983 she married John J. Sarcone. After his death she lived with her daughter Peggy in Waukee, Iowa and then with her daughter Patty in Spring, Texas.
Dee is survived by her twin daughters Pam Samland of Golden, CO, and Pat Unrau of Spring, TX, and daughter Peg Dahlke of Waukee, IA; sons-in-law Will Samland and Jerry Unrau; seven grandchildren: Wes, Wendy, Jeff (wife Judi), Jill, Luke, J.J. and Abbie, who knew her as Gramma “Hobcone”; and two great-grandchildren: Sarah and Maya. She was preceded in death by two husbands and her younger brother, Gordon R. Cobbs.
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