Flora
Mercil-Hudson, 86
Greenbush
- Flora Mercil-Hudson, 86, died Friday, April
20, 2001 at the Greenbush Nursing Home in
Greenbush.
Services
were held on Tuesday, April 24, at 10 a.m. at
Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church in Greenbush with
Father Don Braukmann officiating. Eucharistic
ministers were Dean and Diane Shafer and Gerry
Nubson. Bernie Reese and Mark Foldesi were the
readers. Special music was provided by Jeanne
Novacek and Donna Graff. Serving as gift bearers
were her grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Casketbearers were Bob, Gerald and Joel Graff, Tom
Paquin, Neil Gustafson and David Schires. Interment
was in Blessed Sacrament Cemetery in Greenbush with
Gieseke Funeral Chapel of Greenbush in charge of
the arrangements.
Flora
Elizabeth Zins was born on January 5, 1915 in Red
Lake Falls, the daughter of Joseph and Mary
(Weinhand) Zins. She was baptized and confirmed in
the Catholic faith and attended schools in Red Lake
Falls, graduating from Lafayette High School in
1933 and teachers training in 1934. She taught in
rural Red Lake Falls schools for eight years before
marrying Sgt. Frank Allison in Plummer in 1943. She
moved to Red Lake Falls in 1946 and then to Thief
River Falls where she resided for 33
years.
She
married Ben Hagglund in 1971. He died in 1975. Five
years later, she married Med Mercil and continued
to live in Thief River Falls until his death in
1984. In 1985, she moved to Greenbush and married
Harry Hudson in 1989. For the past two and one-half
years, she had been a resident of the Greenbush
Nursing Home.
As
a writer, Flora edited the Society Page of the
Thief River Falls Times, wrote a library column for
the Thief River Falls Library where she worked for
eight years, wrote a weekly column for the Senior
Club in Greenbush, composed and read numerous
readings and poems for a number of special
occasions and authored a book of all-occasion poems
which was published in 1982. Flora also composed a
poem as her own obituary. She appeared in "American
Poetry Anthology" in 1988 and "Best New American
Poets of 1989" as well as being published in
"American Family Album" of Valley Forge, Penn. for
three years. She also wrote a book of an American
family's life during the depression of the 1930s
entitled, "I, Janie, Survivor."
She
was a member of the Retired Teachers Association,
American Legion Auxiliary, the Ladies Guild of
several Catholic parishes and was very active in
the Senior Club at Greenbush.
Flora
is survived by her husband, Harry Hudson of
Greenbush; a daughter, Diane (Dean) Shafer of
Strathcona; a son, Bill (Kay) Allison of Cherokee,
Texas; seven grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren;
several stepchildren and step-grandchildren; two
brothers, Ben Zins of Forrest Lake and Francis
(Margie) Zins of Long Prairie; and two sisters,
Louise (Leopold) Foldesi of Greenbush and Rita
(Donovan) Wagner of Moorhead.
She
was preceded in death by her parents; two brothers,
Roman and Richard Zins; and a sister, Laura Zins.
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