KOHRT, Lois Maxine

KOHRT, FOLLETT, FILBRANDT, HILSABECK

Posted By: Lynette Edsall (email)
Date: 9/13/2006 at 14:37:21

Lois Kohrt

AURELIA, Iowa -- Lois Kohrt, 84, of Aurelia died Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2005, at St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester, Minn.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Monday at Trinity Lutheran Church in Cherokee, with Pastor Richard Arndt officiating. Burial will be in River View Cemetery, Rock Rapids, Iowa. Visitation will be 1 to 8 p.m. today, with the family present 2 to 5 p.m., at Redig Funeral Home in Aurelia.

Lois Maxine Follett was born Sept. 6, 1921, to Edwin and Minnie (Filbrandt) Follett at Granite Falls, Yellow Medicine County, Minn. She was raised in Rock Rapids, Iowa, and graduated from Central Lyon High School in 1940. She received her RN degree from the Lutheran Hospital School of Nursing in Sioux City in 1943.

Lois married her high school sweetheart, Forrest Jesse Kohrt, on Oct. 10, 1942, in Chicago, Ill., during World War II. They were married for 63 years. The couple lived in Garner and Knoxville before coming to the Cherokee area in 1954. Four years later, they moved to a farm just outside of Aurelia where they lived for 28 years until moving into Aurelia in 1986.

Lois loved nursing and provided excellent care, leadership, and staff training at Sioux Valley Memorial Hospital for more than 30 years. She served as the head nurse for obstetrics and helped develop and supervise the cardiac care unit. Lois retired in 1982.

She was an active member of Trinity Lutheran Church, served the Lutheran Women's Missionary League and provided home visitation as a Stephen's Ministry leader. Since retirement she remained active with church activities including Stephen's Ministries and Ladies Aid. She crocheted many booties and hats for the infants at the hospital and church. Lois enjoyed playing bridge and golf, needlepoint and spending time with her family. Recently, Lois was honored to become a member of the Red Hat Ladies Society and thoroughly enjoyed the activities and camaraderie.

Survivors include her husband, Forrest; their children, Bill Kohrt of Rochester, Minn., Alan and his wife, Lois Kohrt of Atlanta, Ga., Stanley and his wife, Nancy Kohrt of Guthrie, Okla., and Cindy Hilsabeck of Strawberry Point, Iowa; 16 grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; a brother, Robert Follett of Minneapolis, Minn.; a sister-in-law, Cherry Follett of San Mateo, Calif.; and other relatives and friends.

Preceding Lois in death were her parents and a brother, Roger Follett.