Delores Jean Hassebroek

Delores Jean Hassebroek, age 79, passed away on May 26, 2025, at Good Samaritan Luther Manor in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.  Private family graveside service will be held Jun 21, 2025.

Born June 23, 1945, in Sibley, Iowa, Delores was the oldest child of eleven children born to Oran and Phyllis (Stevens) Hassebroek.  She grew up on a farm southwest of Sibley, Iowa, and received her elementary education at Holman #17 school.  She graduated from Sibley High School in 1963.  Delores earned a degree in Paralegal Studies from Metropolitan Community College in Omaha, Nebraska.  She was a career employee with the State of Iowa where she held positions of Fraud Investigator, Revenue Agent and Paralegal.  Her last position was with Iowa Workforce Development where she worked as a paralegal in the Tax Bureau.  She also was a part-time J.C. Penney employee for many years.

Family was first in her life and she enjoyed attending events that her nieces and nephews, and later great-nieces and great-nephews, participated in.  Leisure time activities she enjoyed are sewing, live theater, the symphony, and reading.  She was an excellent self-taught Crocheter, making Afghans for all her brothers and sisters.  

Delores is survived by her siblings, Joyce (Charles) Tarrell, William (Patricia) Hassebroek, Kenneth (Kathleen) Hassebroek, Wayne (Debra) Hassebroek, Irene (Dennis) Thielvoldt, Marlene Boon, Ron Hassebroek, Carol (Gary) Van Houten, Allen (Barbara) Hassebroek and Robert (Tammy) Hassebroek and many nieces, and nephews and cousins.

Delores was preceded in death by her parents, Oran and Phyllis Hassebroek, paternal grandparents, William and Anna (Buss) Hassebroek, maternal grandparents, Kenneth and Ida (Johnson) Stevens, brother-in-law, Daniel Boon, sister-in-law, Vicki (Ramirez) Hassebroek, nieces, Kendra Boon and Jill Hassebroek, nephew, Philip Hassebroek, great-nephew, Ethan Schacht and great-niece, Britton McCarty.

Blessed be her memory.