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Shimek, Johanna M. 1900 – 1979

SHIMEK, KUBESH, SVESTKA, CARROLL, BURKE

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 4/19/2013 at 15:53:41

Source: Cresco Times June 20, 1979, Page 2A

Johanna Shimek, retired nurse, dies at age 78

Funeral services for Johanna M. Shimek, 78, of Waterloo, were held Tuesday at Sacred Heart Catholic church with burial in Holy Cross cemetery, Schley.

She was born Dec. 30, 1900, in Howard county, daughter of Joseph and Caroline Kubesh Shimek. She graduated in 1926 as a nurse from St. Joseph Mercy hospital in Cresco and received her bachelor of science degree in sociology from Marygrove college at Detroit, Mich., in 1935.

Miss Shimek worked as a nurse, teacher and supervisor at St. Joseph Mercy hospital in Detroit for 40 years, retiring in 1967 when she moved to Waterloo.

Surviving are three sisters, Mrs. Jessie Svestka of Cresco, Mrs. Lucy Carroll of Waterloo and Mrs. Bernadette Burke, rural Elma, and a brother, Edward Shimek of rural Elma.

Transcribed from a newspaper clipping submitted by Janice Sowers.

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