Doris E. Semple, 94 of Sioux City, Iowa passed away Monday, November 9, 2020. Funeral Services will be held 11:30am Monday, November 16, 2020 at the Waterbury Funeral Service of Sergeant Bluff, 400 4th Street. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Visitation will be held one hour prior to the service.

Doris was born on July 5, 1926 in Walnut Grove, Minnesota to Samuel and Eva Gist. She attended Pipestone School in Pipestone, Minnesota and in 1948 married Bernard Veldhuizen. They were married for ten years until Bernard was killed in a plane crash in LeMars, Iowa in 1959. In 1965 she married Charles Richard Semple who had three children. Richard now resides at Holy Spirit Nursing Home in Sioux City.

She enjoyed working at Kreske's Department Store in downtown Sioux City in the 1960s and had annual reunions with the "Kreske Girls" for decades. She later worked as a caterer for the Marina Inn and the Sioux City Convention Center.

Over the years she enjoyed making crafts, decorating cakes, collecting dolls and Holstein cow creamers, square dancing, and eating at Taco Johns on Hamilton every Tuesday with her friend Doris McKenna. She
also was very involved with her children and grandchildren and helped and encouraged them at every turn.

She is survived by: husband, Richard Semple, of Sioux City,  two sons, Chuck (Debbie) Veldhuizen of Sioux City, Randy Veldhuizen of Spokane, Washington, two daughters, Gloria Semple of Sioux City, Vicky (Ken) Semple of Woodbury, Connecticut, sister, Betty (Don) McMahon of Flandreau, South Dakota, brother, Richard (Norma) Gist, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, 13 grandchildren, many great grandchildren, numerous nieces and nephews.

She is preceded in death by, her parents, brother, Kenny, sister, Shirley,
daughter, Lydia.