Deloris Jean Orth
April 13, 1941 - January 14, 2001

Deloris Orth TIPTON, Iowa #45;- Deloris Jean Orth, 59, of Tipton, died Sunday, Jan. 14, 2001, at the University of Iowa Hospitals in Iowa City, after an extended illness. Services will be at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday at Fry Funeral Home in Tipton. The Rev. Eugene Benda will officiate. Burial will be at Rose Hill Cemetery in Mechanicsville. Visitation will be from 4-7 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home. Mrs. Orth was born April 13, 1941, in Ellsworth, Kan., the daughter of Cecil and Gertrude Stratmann Newsome. She married Norman Orth on March 11, 1960, in Hosington, Kan. She graduated from Hosington Kansas High School. She was of the Lutheran faith. She was a member of the VFW Auxiliary in Great Bend, Kan. and was a homemaker. Survivors include her former husband, Norman Orth of Tipton; two daughters, Kalin Cook of Towner, Colo. and Gayla Ross of Tipton; two sons, Galen Orth of Mechanicsville and Billy Orth of Tipton; a brother, Harold Newsome of York, Neb.; two sisters, Barbara Randolf of Salina, Kan. and Nancy Schukman of Casper, Wyo.; nine grandchildren; a mother, Gertrude Newsome of Great Bend. She was preceded in death by her father, Cecil Newsome; daughter, Denise Orth; two sons, Todd and Brad Campbell; a brother, Norman Newsome; and a grandson, Cody Orth.

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