sioux city journal obituaries november 9 2017

Terry's knowledge of sports, especially in Northwest Iowa, was unmatched. Not to mention thousands and thousands of high school and college games.Ī big source of pride for Terry was covering the Sioux City Explorers minor league baseball team since its inception in 1993. He was a Heisman Trophy selector for 36 years.Īlong with covering the Iowa boys state basketball tournament for 40 years, Terry also staffed three Rose Bowl games involving the Iowa Hawkeyes, as well as numerous NCAA and NAIA national tournaments, all 12 Dakota Dunes Open golf tournaments and four International Softball Congress World Tournaments. He served on the Greater Siouxland Athletic Association board of directors and the Sioux City Relays Hall of Fame committee, as well as on Iowa Newspaper Association all-state committees. He was also a member of the Knights of Columbus (3rd degree) and the Sioux City Sports Congress.

Terry was the first president of the Iowa Associated Press Sports Editors. He liked to joke that he was the slowest person ever to receive this award. Terry was inducted into the Iowa Association of Track Coaches 2019 Hall of Fame receiving the LaVerne Kloster Distinguished Service Award. He was assistant sports editor at the Ottumwa Courier before spending 38 years as sports editor of the Sioux City Journal from 1977 until his retirement in 2015.Īmong his many honors were the Drake Relays Media Award, North Central Conference Honor Award, Iowa High School Athletic Association Media Award, Sioux City Relays honorary referee and Iowa High School Athletic Directors Association Outstanding Media Award. He worked as a part-time writer for both the Waterloo Courier and Cedar Falls Record before becoming sports editor at the Cedar Falls Record. While still a student at Northern Iowa, Terry began a long and illustrious career in journalism as sports editor of the school newspaper. Terry married Pat Palmer on August 14, 2020. They were proud parents of sons Jason and Jim. Terry married Linda Tewes on June 6, 1970, in Royal, Iowa, following a courtship that began the year prior when Terry, strumming his guitar and singing folk songs in the student union at UNI, accepted a song request only on the condition that Linda sit next to him. He graduated from Washington High School in Cedar Rapids in 1968 and the University of Northern Iowa in 1972 with a B.A. Luke's Hospital in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on August 26, 1950, to Robert W. Online condolences may be expressed to the family at Terrence William Hersom was born at St. A Celebration of Terry's Life will be 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm Tuesday at Bob Roe's Point After. Mass of Christian Burial will be 10:30 am Tuesday, November 9, 2021, at Mater Dei Parish-Church of the Nativity with burial to follow in Memorial Park Cemetery. Chicago, IL - Terrence 'Terry' Hersom, of Sioux City, Iowa, died Sunday, October 31, 2021, at the age of 71 years, two months and five days, in Chicago, IL.Ī visitation will be 1:00 pm to 7:00 pm Monday, November 8, 2021, at Christy-Smith Funeral Homes, Morningside Chapel, 1801 Morningside Ave., with the family present from 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm.

Sioux city journal obituaries november 9 2017