Melita (Knecht) Bankson, 96, of Brooklyn, N. Y., formerly of Sioux City, died of Alzheimer's Monday, Sept. 21, 1998, at her residence.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at First Covenant Church in Sioux City, with the Rev. Philip M. Rohler officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Visitation will be 4 to 8 p.m. Friday, with the family present after 6 p.m. and a prayer service at 7 p.m. , at Nelson-Berger Northside Chapel.
Mrs. Bankson was born Jan. 10, 1902, near Bowdle, S. D. She attended a one-room schoolhouse through the fifth grade. She worked in Muscatine, Iowa and moved to Sioux City in the early 1920s.
She married Abel Bankson on Oct. 11, 1925. She was a homemaker. He died Sept. 28, 1989. She moved to Brooklyn in 1991.
She was a member of First Covenant Church, where she served as a deaconess, and Covenant Women's Group.
Survivors include two sisters, Amelia Hebeler of Sioux City and Ida Lemp of Cedarburg, Wis.; three sons, Russell of Minneapolis, Minn., Leslie Howard of Rockville, Md., and Benjamin of Brooklyn; two daughters-in-law, Eleanor and Joyce Bankson; six grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by a brother and six sisters.
Memorials may be directed to First Covenant Church.
Pallbearers will be Stanley Anderson, Malcolm Erickson, Wayne Johnson, Jack Nelson, Loren Peterson and Harold Sundermeyer.
The Sioux City Journal, September 24, 1998
Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at First Covenant Church in Sioux City, with the Rev. Philip M. Rohler officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Visitation will be 4 to 8 p.m. Friday, with the family present after 6 p.m. and a prayer service at 7 p.m. , at Nelson-Berger Northside Chapel.
Mrs. Bankson was born Jan. 10, 1902, near Bowdle, S. D. She attended a one-room schoolhouse through the fifth grade. She worked in Muscatine, Iowa and moved to Sioux City in the early 1920s.
She married Abel Bankson on Oct. 11, 1925. She was a homemaker. He died Sept. 28, 1989. She moved to Brooklyn in 1991.
She was a member of First Covenant Church, where she served as a deaconess, and Covenant Women's Group.
Survivors include two sisters, Amelia Hebeler of Sioux City and Ida Lemp of Cedarburg, Wis.; three sons, Russell of Minneapolis, Minn., Leslie Howard of Rockville, Md., and Benjamin of Brooklyn; two daughters-in-law, Eleanor and Joyce Bankson; six grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by a brother and six sisters.
Memorials may be directed to First Covenant Church.
Pallbearers will be Stanley Anderson, Malcolm Erickson, Wayne Johnson, Jack Nelson, Loren Peterson and Harold Sundermeyer.
The Sioux City Journal, September 24, 1998
Melita (Knecht) Bankson, 96, of Brooklyn, N. Y., formerly of Sioux City, died of Alzheimer's Monday, Sept. 21, 1998, at her residence.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at First Covenant Church in Sioux City, with the Rev. Philip M. Rohler officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Visitation will be 4 to 8 p.m. Friday, with the family present after 6 p.m. and a prayer service at 7 p.m. , at Nelson-Berger Northside Chapel.
Mrs. Bankson was born Jan. 10, 1902, near Bowdle, S. D. She attended a one-room schoolhouse through the fifth grade. She worked in Muscatine, Iowa and moved to Sioux City in the early 1920s.
She married Abel Bankson on Oct. 11, 1925. She was a homemaker. He died Sept. 28, 1989. She moved to Brooklyn in 1991.
She was a member of First Covenant Church, where she served as a deaconess, and Covenant Women's Group.
Survivors include two sisters, Amelia Hebeler of Sioux City and Ida Lemp of Cedarburg, Wis.; three sons, Russell of Minneapolis, Minn., Leslie Howard of Rockville, Md., and Benjamin of Brooklyn; two daughters-in-law, Eleanor and Joyce Bankson; six grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by a brother and six sisters.
Memorials may be directed to First Covenant Church.
Pallbearers will be Stanley Anderson, Malcolm Erickson, Wayne Johnson, Jack Nelson, Loren Peterson and Harold Sundermeyer.
The Sioux City Journal, September 24, 1998
Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at First Covenant Church in Sioux City, with the Rev. Philip M. Rohler officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Visitation will be 4 to 8 p.m. Friday, with the family present after 6 p.m. and a prayer service at 7 p.m. , at Nelson-Berger Northside Chapel.
Mrs. Bankson was born Jan. 10, 1902, near Bowdle, S. D. She attended a one-room schoolhouse through the fifth grade. She worked in Muscatine, Iowa and moved to Sioux City in the early 1920s.
She married Abel Bankson on Oct. 11, 1925. She was a homemaker. He died Sept. 28, 1989. She moved to Brooklyn in 1991.
She was a member of First Covenant Church, where she served as a deaconess, and Covenant Women's Group.
Survivors include two sisters, Amelia Hebeler of Sioux City and Ida Lemp of Cedarburg, Wis.; three sons, Russell of Minneapolis, Minn., Leslie Howard of Rockville, Md., and Benjamin of Brooklyn; two daughters-in-law, Eleanor and Joyce Bankson; six grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by a brother and six sisters.
Memorials may be directed to First Covenant Church.
Pallbearers will be Stanley Anderson, Malcolm Erickson, Wayne Johnson, Jack Nelson, Loren Peterson and Harold Sundermeyer.
The Sioux City Journal, September 24, 1998
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