 Josephine Kudrna, age 92 of Tabor died Friday, February 15, 2008 at Avera Yankton Care Center, Yankton, SD. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 AM, Thursday, February 21, 2008 at First United Methodist Church in Yankton with Rev. Dean Trapp officiating. Burial will be in the Garden of Memories in Yankton. Visitations will be from 4-8 PM, Wednesday, February 20, 2008 at the Kostel Funeral Home and Crematory, Yankton. Visitations will resume one hour prior to the service at the church. Pallbearers will be Gary Kudrna, John L. Kudrna, Troy Skokan, Charles Stastny, Will Dangler, and Loy Gravholt.
Josephine Kudrna was born March 18, 1915, on the family farm near Lakeport in Yankton County to Fred J. Kaiser and Julia (Beran) Kaiser. She married Edward William Kudrna on January 11, 1938 at the Presbyterian Church near Tabor, SD.
Josephine lived her entire life in Tabor, SD apart from three years at the Black Hills Ordinance Depot near Hot Springs, SD in the early forties. She was a lifetime homemaker, and worked for fifteen years as a cook at Tabor High School where she retired in 1976. During her life, she loved cooking, sewing, bowling, sewing Czech costumed dolls and listening to music.
Survivors include her children, Edward and wife Brandi of Hanford, CA; Don and wife Gail of Tabor, SD; and Sandy (Mrs. Charles) Arbogast of Hillsboro, OR; five grandchildren; nine great grandchildren; and four great great grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband Edward on February 7, 1992; her parents; five brothers: Edward, Fred, John, Frank and Lawrence; and two sisters, Rose Kennedy and Agnes Lake.
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