Dennis Sorensen

Dennis Sorensen

1945 – 2025

MAPLE GROVE, MINNESOTA - Dr. Dennis Earl Sorensen, DVM, 79, passed away on Saturday, March 15, 2025, at his home of Maple Grove, Minnesota, due to leukemia. A funeral service will be held on Wednesday, March 19, 2025 at 10:30 a.m. at the St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church of Holstein with the Pastor Del Olivier and Vicar Emily Anderson officiating. Burial will be at the Holstein Cemetery of Holstein. A visitation will be held one hour prior to the service at the church. The Nicklas D. Jensen Funeral Home of Holstein is in charge of the arrangements.

Dennis was born on July 17, 1945, along with his twin brother, Curtis Earl Sorensen, in Ida Grove. They were the children of Patricia Jean (Parker) Sorensen and Earl Henry Sorensen, and were raised on the family’s century farm near Holstein. The twins graduated from Holstein High School in 1963, and Dennis went on to earn a graduate degree in Animal Science and his doctorate in Veterinary Medicine in 1970 from Iowa State University. After graduating, he worked for various veterinary practices in Washington state and California.

Upon returning to Iowa, Dennis purchased and operated Morningside Veterinary Hospital in Sioux City for almost forty years. During that time, he became a member of Morningside Lutheran Church, married his wife Dianne on Jan. 28, 1978, and later became the father of two beautiful daughters: Heather Leigh and Crystal Dawn. They were the joys of his life. Dennis designed and built a beautiful home in the Loess Hills near Hornick, Iowa, which the family enjoyed with their many adorable cats and dogs.

Dennis was a man of many interests and talents, including 4-H, where he showed the Grand Champion steer of Ida County. He enjoyed flying small planes, boating and water skiing, photography, landscaping, travel, woodworking, and house building. He traveled most of the United States and visited over thirty countries and six of the seven continents with his wife and daughters.

In 2011, Dennis and Dianne moved to lovely Carmel, California and purchased a small cottage overlooking Monterey Bay where they spent just over a decade. He built on to that cottage and turned it into a beautiful home on Jack’s Peak.

Feeling a need to be closer to his two daughters and three wonderful granddaughters, Mya, Amara, and Eve, he moved to Maple Grove, Minnesota and returned to the Midwest in 2022.

Dennis is preceded in death by his parents and brother Curtis.

He is survived by his wife Dianne, his daughters Heather (Nikhil) Dsouza, and Crystal (Sam) Warming of Maple Grove, Minnesota, and his three granddaughters, Amara Dsouza, Mya and Eve Warming also of Maple Grove.

Online condolences can be made at nicklasdjensenfh.com