Source:  Sioux City Journal, July 8, 2001

Stephen R. Duggan, 51, of South Sioux City died Friday, July 6, 2001, at a Sioux City hospital from apparent heart failure.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at St. Michael's Catholic Church in South Sioux City with the Revs. David F. Liewer and Paul M Albenesius officiating. The body will be cremated following the services. Private inurnment will be held at Calvary Cemetary. Visitation will be 5 to 9 p.m. Monday (July 9), with family present 6 to 8:30 p.m., a Third Degree Knights of Columbus rosary at 6:30 p.m., and a parish vigil service at 7 p.m., all at the church. Arrangements are under the direction of Larkin Northside Funeral Home.

Mr. Duggan was born Oct. 7, 1949 in Sioux City, the son of Raymond B. and Mary Patricia (Redfield) Duggan.  He graduated from Heelan High School in 1968, and from the University of South Dakota in 1981, earning a bachelor's degree in sociology.  He married Paula K. Stone on June 27, 1981, in Vermillion, SD.  From 1981 to 1988 he was employed as a group counselor for Catholic Charities of Bellingham, WA,  He moved to South Sioux City in 1988.  For the last 12 years he was an engineer for the Burlington Northern Sante Fe Railroad.  

He was a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, St. Michael's Catholic Church in South Sioux City, and Father Tracy Council 3844 Knights of Columbus as a Third Degree Knight.

He enjoyed the outdoors, fishing, hunting and woodworking.  He was an avid photographer.

Survivors include his wife; two sons, Raymond G. and Ryan C., both of South Sioux City; a daughter, Kristin Joan Duggan of South Sioux City; three brothers, Mark and his wife, Jackie Duggan of Lincoln, NE, Michael V. Duggan of Sioux City, and Thomas M. and his wife, Brenda Duggan of South Sioux City; three sisters, Mary Catherine and her husband, Nick Yonker of Durango, CO, and Mary Ann and her husband, Albie Wood, and Mary Elizabeth Duggan, all of Bellingham; and many nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents and a sister, Joan Elizabeth.

Pallbearers will be Mark, Michael and Thomas Duggan, Darrell Stone, Bill Whear and Steve Bird.