Rhoda C. Lewis
August 21, 1917 - January 19, 2010
Sac City, IA
Visitation: Tuesday, 4-8 pm January 26, 2010 at Farber & Otteman Funeral Home, Sac City.
Funeral Service: Wednesday, 10:30 am January 27, 2010 at First Christian Church, Sac City.
Interment: following service January 27, 2010 at Oakland Cemetery, Sac City.
Rhoda Caroline (Petersen) Lewis, age 92, of Sac City, passed away Tuesday, January 19th, 2009 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota at the home of her son, Robert Lewis.
Rhoda was born to Marius and Minnie (Nelsen) Petersen in Elk Horn, Iowa, on August 21, 1917. The family moved to Lake View, Iowa, when Rhoda was three. She attended school at Lake View. Rhoda married Robert H. Lewis of Sac City on November 19th, 1937 at the First Christian Church parsonage in Sac City. She and Bob were life long members of that church. They had two children, Nancy and Robert.
Rhoda was a loving and devoted wife, mother and grandmother. Her family always came first. This was shown through the tender care she gave her husband as she learned to do hemo-dialysis for Bob three times a week for 17 years. Rhoda and Bob spent their free time camping and fishing and usually had their grandsons, Gregg and Brian, with them. Bob passed away on June 5th, 1986.
Whenever family met together Grandma Rhoda would bring out the cards. There was always time for a few hands of 500 or pinochle. She also enjoyed Friday night prime rib with Nancy and Larry followed by a few hands of 500. This last year had been difficult for Rhoda as she had always been proud of her independence. Robert and Pat invited her to stay with them where she always had someone for cribbage or cards. Rhoda had six very good friends whom she joined several times a week for cards or bingo. She also had her very special coffee group with whom she shared time every morning.
Survivors include her daughter and husband, Nancy and Larry Domino and her son and his wife, Robert and Patricia Lewis. Rhoda didn’t have “in-laws”-- just her kids. Her grandchildren are Gregg and Lynda Domino, Brian and Shelly Domino, Scott and Lisa Lewis, Michele and Brian Schuldt, Adam and Heidi Lewis. Great grandchildren are Kyle and Caitlyn Domino, Michael and Joselin Domino, Marian and Ada Lewis and one great grandson, Chase Domino; her brother and wife, Forrest (Bud) and Dorothy Petersen, of Harlan, and her sisters-in-law and her husband, Beverly and Bill Duncan, Jan Lewis of Cedar Rapids, and Dilys Lewis of Napa, CA., many nieces and nephews and friends. She was preceded in death by her husband, Bob; her parents, Mike and Minnie Petersen; her parents-in-law, Phillip and Ida Lewis; her brother Clarit Petersen, sister-in-law and husband, Irene and Everett Austin, brothers-in-law, Ted and Cliff Lewis, nephews Michael Petersen and Larry Austin. “Grandma Rhoda” will be missed.
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