SIOUX CITY, Iowa - Marjorie A. (Olson) Gors, of Sioux City, died Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, at a Sioux City hospital following a short illness. She was 91.

A public visitation to celebrate her life will be held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Friday, May 16, at the Miller Funeral Home Southside Chapel, 7400 S. Minnesota Ave., Sioux Falls, South Dakota. A private committal for immediate family members will follow at the Hurley Cemetery, Hurley, South Dakota.

Marjorie was born on Sept. 28, 1933, near Irene, South Dakota, to Albert and Agnes Olson. She was raised in and attended schools in Irene, graduating from Irene High School in 1951. She attended Southern State Teachers College in Springfield, South Dakota, for one year, then began work at Dakota Co-op Telephone Company in Irene.

In 1957, Marjorie met Wayne Gors on a blind date. The two married in Sioux Falls on May 29, 1958. To this union, four children were born - Michael, Michele, John and Jean.

After their marriage, Marjorie and Wayne moved to Mason City, Iowa, where Wayne began a career as an electronics technician in air traffic control for the Federal Aviation Administration at the Mason City airport. The couple retired to Beresford, South Dakota, in 1989. In 1995, Marjorie and Wayne moved to Sioux Falls. Wayne died in 2011. In 2023, Marjorie moved to The Heritage at Northern Hills, a senior living community in Sioux City.

Aside from a small number of years working in food service at Mason City High School in the 1970s and 1980s, Marjorie was a stay-at-home mom and homemaker during her marriage to Wayne. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church.

Marjorie's interests included dancing, old country music, cooking and planting flowers. She enjoyed days spent driving the rural roads of Southeast South Dakota, pointing out landmarks from her past and sharing memories of yesterday. She enjoyed traveling, and Marjorie and Wayne traveled extensively during their years together. One of her favorite destinations was Jackson Hole, Wyo., and she enjoyed the many trips she made with Wayne for reunions with his Air Force buddies. She loved watching baseball, football and basketball on television, and she became a passionate supporter of the Iowa State University Cyclones through children and grandchildren who attended and graduated from ISU.

Marjorie was an exceptional piano player. She was blessed with beautiful handwriting and spent countless hours over the course of her life writing letters and notes on cards, including a long list of Christmas cards each year.

Above all else, Marjorie loved family. She enjoyed nothing more than spending time with her children, grandchildren and, in recent years, great-grandchildren.

She approached life with zest, kindness, compassion for others, and a beautiful smile produced by a positive outlook that rarely left her face.

She is survived by son, Michael of Sioux City; daughter, Michele of Mankato, Minn.; son, John (Joanna) of Coppell, Texas; daughter, Jean Gortmaker (Kerwin) of Salem, South Dakota; grandchildren, Abigail Gors (Caleb Monckton) of Sioux City, Amanda Gors of San Francisco, Calif., Ryan Paris of Rochester, Minn., Rachel Paris of Wichita, Kan., Meghan Imhoff (Jordan) of Sioux Falls, and Brooke Gortmaker of Sioux Falls; and great-grandchildren, Grayson, Quinn, Scarlett, Emma and Oakley.

Marjorie was preceded in death by her husband, Wayne; her parents; one sister, one brother; her father-in-law and mother-in-law; and numerous brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law. She was the last survivor of her generation on both her side and Wayne's side of their family.