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 Mary Lou Kostel, age 62 of Yankton passed away early Sunday, October 02, 2011 at Avera Yankton Care Center, Yankton. Mass of Christian Burial will be 10:30 AM, Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church in Tabor with Msgr. Carlton Hermann officiating. Burial will be in the parish cemetery. Visitations will begin at 3 PM, Tuesday, October 4, 2011 at the St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church, Tabor with a 7PM wake service. Opsahl-Kostel Memorial Chapel, Tabor is in charge of arrangements. Visitations will resume one hour prior to the service at the church. Pallbearers will be Bobby Walloch, David Walloch, Gene Soukup, Michael Soukup, Kevin Loecker, Darrin Loecker, Mark Herman, Nadine Kasel, Troy Herman, Todd Herman, and Brian Schoon. Honorary pallbearers will be Kathy Sayler, Bev Soukup, JoLynn Weber, Pam Roth, Nicole Soukup, and Jennifer Schoon.
Mary Lou was born on March 18, 1949 to Lawrence W. and Tillie (Novotny) Herman at Sacred Heart Hospital in Yankton, SD. She was baptized and confirmed at St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church in Tabor, SD. On August 22, 1970, she was united in marriage to Roger Dale Kostel at St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church in Tabor. She received her Teacher's Certificate and began teaching at Petrik Country School and St. Wenceslaus Catholic Grade School in Tabor. On September 7, 1971, she began working at the South Dakota Human Services Center as a librarian where she worked for the next forty years. Mary Lou was a 2008 nominee as a Hero In The Fight, in celebration of all professionals fighting for better mental health. She always enjoyed working with patients, to help them with their educational wants of their diseases and recreationally, too, to get their mind off their illness.
She enjoyed Czech food, car rides and most of all family gatherings especially those out in the Black Hills. Her favorite holiday was Christmas and she always had a present for everyone. She loved flowers and researching family genealogy.
Those who will always cherish her memory are her husband, Roger Dale Kostel of Yankton, SD; her brother, Larry (Kay Wagner) Herman of Duluth, MN; sisters: Mildred Walloch of Tabor, SD, Rosalie (Eugene) Soukup of Wagner, SD, Charlotte (Edward Eichler) Herman of Yankton, SD, Marjorie (Roy) Schoon of Slayton, MN, and Tillie (Melvin) Loecker, Crofton, NE; 4 God Children: Nicole Rae Soukup and Darrin Paul Loecker, both of Sioux Falls, SD, Troy Herman of Ohio, and Jennifer Schoon of Slayton, MN; mother-in-law, Della Kostel of Yankton, SD and nieces and nephews.
Mary Lou was preceded in death by her parents, her grandparents: Louie and Mary Novotny and William and Emma Dvoracek Herman; father-in-law, Joe Kostel and brother-in-law, Clarence Walloch.
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