Lori Hill

LORI HILL

Cedar Rapids

Lori Hill, 55, died Saturday, May 20, 2017, at UnityPoint Hospice, Cedar Rapids, following a brief illness. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday, May 31, at Goettsch Funeral Home in Anamosa with interment in the Wayne Zion Cemetery. Friends may call after 9 a.m. Wednesday at the funeral home. Thoughts, memories and condolences may be left at www.goettschonline.com. In lieu

of flowers, a memorial fund has been established.

Survivors include her daughter, Kathy Topping, and granddaughter, Sidney Toycen of Anamosa; two sisters, Diane (David) Simmons, Worthington, and Janice (Keith) McCloy, DeSoto, Mo.; and two brothers, Raymond and Leonard Dirks, both of Monticello.

She was preceded in death by her parents; an infant sister, Virginia; and a brother, Duane.

Lori Ann Dirks was born March 27, 1962, at Anamosa, Iowa. She was the daughter of Elmer and Alvina Stutt Dirks. Lori graduated from the Olin Consolidated Schools in 1980. She graduated from Kirkwood Community College in 1984 as a registered nurse. She worked at the Clarence Nursing Home and the VA Health Care System in Iowa City. She later moved to Anchorage, Alaska, where she worked for Indian Health Services. She completed her career degree by getting a bachelor of science in nursing degree from the University of Anchorage. After she returned to the lower 48 states, Lori worked at the Anamosa Care Center, Pro Care in Cedar Rapids and the Kalona Mennonite Hospital. She was currently working for Recover Health in Cedar Rapids, where she cared for children who are paraplegic. When she wasn't working she loved to play her keyboard, read and take continuing education classes.