Cora
Kowalski, 90
Chisago
City - Cora Kowalski, 90, died Wednesday, June
6, 2001 at Margaret Palmer Nursing Home in Chisago
City.
Services
were held Monday, June 11, at Margaret Palmer
Nursing Home with Rev. Ron Gerl, chaplain,
presiding. Ladonna Lindblom was the organist, and
several of Cora's children presented readings about
her life.
Cora
was born on December 12, 1910 in Thief River Falls.
Her father was a country school superintendent for
several years. Cora worked for her aunt in
Deadwood, S.D. where she attended high school and
nurses training. She was employed as a head
surgical nurse at Mercy Hospital for several years.
Cora worked for public health services in Grand
Forks, N.D. prior to marrying Dick Kowalski and
moving to Grafton, N.D. where she worked as a
county school nurse until she was 73 years
old.
After
her husband's death in 1993, Cora moved to
Burnsville. She later moved to Margaret Palmer
Nursing Home.
Survivors
include two daughters, Annetta Leigh and Alisia
(Robert) Iwabucki; three sons, Richard (Christine)
Kowalski, Robert (Tamara) Kowalski and George
(Diane) Kowalski; two brothers, George Gunderson
and Vernon (Shirley) Gunderson; five sisters, Tilda
Gunderson, Madeline Botz, Audrey Schaan, Verna
(Darrell) Bullinger, Dorothy (Joe) Sagaser; three
sisters-in-law; and several grandchildren, nieces
and nephews.
She
was preceded in death by her husband; parents; four
brothers, Gustave, Arnold, Milton and Clifford; two
sisters, Alda Erickson and Gladys Gunderson; four
brothers-in-law; and two sisters-in-law.
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