Anna Marie Curfman

Anna Marie Curfman, 92, of Sioux City, IA, passed away March 30, 2026. A memorial service will be held Wednesday, April 8 at 10:30 a.m., with a visitation 1 hour prior at St James Global Methodist Church in Sioux City, where she was a member. Arrangements are under the direction of Waterbury Funeral Service of Sioux City. The service will be livestreamed at https://www.youtube.com/@stjamesmethodistscia

Anna was born on November 11, 1933 to Marie V (Parker) Osterloh and Lawrence J Osterloh in Marysville, KS. She spent her preschool years in a home in Blue Rapids, KS before the young family moved to Marysville, KS. They were joined by brother Jerry when Anna Marie was 4 and sister Carol when she was 10. Another brother, Richard died as an infant.

At the age of 17 she won a national contest in shorthand and after graduating High School in 1951, was hired by Northwestern Bell Engineering Department in Kansas City to be the Administrative Assistant for 5 Engineers. It was there that she met her future husband, John E Curfman, at a USO dance while he was in the Air Force. They married in the Marysville First Christian Church on May 24, 1953.

They were stationed in Topeka, KS, where they had their first daughter, Terry E on May 4, 1954. After an Honorable Discharge from the Air Force, they went to Manhattan, KS where John graduated with a double major in Architecture and City Planning at K-State. It was there during his last finals week that their second daughter, Anna E, arrived on January 8, 1958.

The next move was to Waterloo, IA where John was hired in the City Planning office. In 1960 he was offered a job in Auburn, NY (on the Finger Lakes) where he provided city planning services for 13 towns. After 3 years, a massive fire destroyed all of the files and the office had to close. This brought the family to Sioux City, IA where John became Planning Director & Community Development Director and they worked on their new home on Magnolia Court. They spent almost 40 years in that home, and 52 years together, until John died following a 23 year disability from heart disease in 2005.

Anna M found time to pursue her various loves: Country music, especially Blake Shelton, Monthly Potluck Group for nearly 50 years, PTA, Sweet Adelines, Red Hat, Patient Rep at both hospitals, Mended Hearts, Iota Delphine Study Club, Morningside Garden Club, multiple bridge groups, Gardening, taking her two grandsons on motorhome adventures, visitng all the states including Hawaii, traveling to Kansas and Delaware (John’s home state) where Rehoboth Beach, DE was a favorite haunt, volunteering for the National Park Service in Arizona for 5 years, going to the Kansas City Chiefs games, original season ticket holders for the Exporers’ for many years, being travel companion when John flew the 4 place Cessna Skyhawk he owned a part of, working as a teacher associate at Nodland Grade School for the first 3 years it was open, and 12 years for the Individual Learning Center. She also worked for HyVee as a greeter, did grocery demos, sold Avon, worked elections, and worked at Hickory Farms at the mall. She raised a goose from a gosling and he followed her around the yard until a kind friend with a flock of geese gave Bo a new home.

Daughter Terry Jasman & husband Dick have both passed away, but they leave behind two sons, Jesse (Maggie) Jasman and children, Garrett, Maylee, Hudson, & Judah, and Jack who has Kennedy with Whitney (Brandon), and Charlotte and Jase with Megan. Daughter Anna and cat, Callie, are left to miss her at home. Special mention of daughters of the heart, Charlena (Jon) Swenson and Roz Davis (Rick Kunzmann), (who were married in her backyard). Also, nephews Alan (Janet) Osterloh and Ken Osterloh.

She is preceded in death by her parents, brothers, and sister, and many other relatives.