Dolores Ann Kaiser

Dolores Kaiser

WYNOT — Dolores Ann Kaiser, 94, Wynot, died Sept. 1, 2024, at Mercy One Hospital, Sioux City, Iowa, due to cardiac complications.

Mass of Christian Burial was Sept. 6 at Holy Family (Sts. Peter and Paul) Catholic Church, Bow Valley, with Rev. James Keiter officiating.

Burial was at Sts. Philip and James Cemetery, St. James.

Pallbearers were her grandsons. Honorary pallbearers were her granddaughters.

Visitation, with a vigil service, was Thursday, at church, and continued one hour prior to the service Friday.

Wintz Funeral Home, Hartington, was in charge of arrangements.

Dolores Ann (Thoene) Kaiser was born Dec. 2, 1929, to Frank and Emma (Tigges) Thoene, Fordyce. She grew up with her older brothers and sister on their farm east of Fordyce. She attended school in Fordyce, completing eight years at St. John the Baptist and two years at the public high school. She then attended Mount Marty to finish high school and a semester of college. She went back home to help her parents on the family farm for a few years. She married Lawrence Kaiser, son of Jacob and Theresa (Schoof) Kaiser, Feb. 14, 1953, and they lived in Fordyce for two years, while they cared for her ailing father until he passed away. In 1955, they moved with their two young sons, to a farm two and one half miles southeast of St. James. Dolores worked alongside Lawrence to establish a successful livestock and crop business while they raised their family of eight children.

Dolores was very involved with their local Catholic parish, St. Philip and James, where she was active on the Alter Society, Christian Mothers Group, Choir, Respect Life Committee, and the East Catholic School Board. She was also a 4-H leader in the St. James area for many years during which she taught homemaking, sewing, gardening and many other skills to her own children and other youth in the local area. Dolores was very knowledgeable of Cedar County history and she enjoyed creating genealogy books for her family lineage. Her keen memory and strong interest in her German Catholic Heritage earned her the reputation as a trusted historian of northeast Nebraska, especially Cedar County, where her ancestors settled in the mid-1800s.

Grateful for having shared their lives with her are her eight children, David (Karen) Kaiser, Madras, Ore.; Charles, Lincoln; Cheryl (Paul) Moe, Sioux Falls, S.D.; Roger (Jeanne) Kaiser, Fordyce: Joan Marcinko, Tempe, Ariz.; Gary, St. James; Marie (Mark) Dahlhoff, Vermillion, S.D.; Anne Kaiser, Denver, Colo.; 15 grandchildren, Erica Maher, Mitchell (Kristen) and Matthew (Emily) Moe; Megan Kaiser and James (Abby) Kaiser; Jonathon, Aimee, Jeremy (Amber), and Alyssa Marcinkp; Ross, Emma, Clare, Joel, Mary and Sadie Dahlhoff; seven great-grandchildren, and another on the way; two sisters-in-law, Shirley Kaiser, St. Helena, and Phyllis Thoene, Hartington; and many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Lawrence; her parents; her brothers, Charles (Glenara) and Marcus Thoene; and her sister, Irma (Ike) Felber; all of Lawrence’s siblings; and a grandson, Luke Dahlhoff.

In lieu of flowers, contributions in her memory are appreciated by Respect Life/Right to Life Local, State and National groups.