Irma, 87, passed away Wednesday evening, January 4, 2012 at Grape Community Hospital in Hamburg following a brief illness.
The Rosary will be recited at 7:00 p.m., on Monday evening at the Hackett-Livingston Funeral Home.
Irma Maxine (McDermott) Dinville of Randolph, IA, was born on January 31, 1924, to Ralph Henry and Edith Gertrude (Johnston) McDermott at her parents rural homestead southwest of Farragut, Iowa. She passed away on Wednesday, January 4, 2012, at the age of 87 years at the Grape Community Hospital, in Hamburg, Iowa.
She grew up in the rural Farragut, Imogene and Shenandoah, Iowa areas. She attended her first two years of high school at Shenandoah High School and then finished her final two years at Farragut High School where she graduated in 1941.
After attending business school in Omaha, Nebraska, she worked in Omaha as part of the war effort during World War II. She then worked as a secretary at Mount Arbor Nursery in Shenandoah. On May 8, 1951, she was united in marriage to George Robert Dinville at St. Patrick Catholic Church in Imogene, Iowa. They spent their 51 years of marriage farming and raising their family on their farmstead southeast of Randolph, Iowa. Irma was a member of St. Patrick Catholic Church of Imogene and a longtime member of the St. Patrick Altar Society. Her family was always her first interest, but she enjoyed reading, needlework and travel. She was a wonderful cook and was especially known for her pie baking.
She was preceded in death by her parents and husband George on October 19, 2002, at the age of 87. Also preceding her in death were her brother, Ernest and his wife Viola McDermott; her brother J. R. McDermott; brothers-in-law Dale King , Tom Perkins, Julius Dinville and Tony Dinville; sister-in-law, Eileen Dinville; brother-in-law and wife, Leo and Lucille Dinville; and sister-in-law and her husband Rose and Robert Stoneking.
Those left to honor her memory include her children, Steve and Mary Dinville of Randolph, IA, Vivian and Gary Howell of Maryville, MO, Tom Dinville of Sidney, IA, Julia Dinville of Randolph, IA, Lisa Dinville of Randolph, IA, Diane Dinville of Hamburg, IA, and Andrew and Debbie Dinville of Arvada, CO; grandchildren, Mandy (Dinville) and Jason Schebaum and their children Paige and Sierra of Shenandoah, IA, James and Joni Dinville and their children Emersyn and Kooper of Grand Island, NE, Beth (Dinville) and Jesse Nuckolls and their daughter Carlie of Omaha, NE; Abby (Howell) and Jim Dropinski of Maryville, MO; Adam and Candice Howell and their son Kelvin of Lincoln, NE, Emily Howell of Kansas City, MO, Libbey Howell of Maryville, MO, and Ryan and Kayla Dinville of Arvada, CO; sisters Lucile King of Humboldt, NE, Madalene Perkins of Tabor, IA, Carol Catus and husband Eugene of Ames, IA; brother-in-law Joe Dinville of Shenandoah, IA; sisters-in-law Mary Dinville of Red Oak, IA and Elaine Dinville of Shenandoah, IA; other relatives and friends.