Mary Prohaska

PROHASKA, SEARS

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler (email)
Date: 5/9/2006 at 10:45:47

Earlham Library Obituary Collection
1995

Mary Josephine Prohaska, 92, of Earlham died at the Earlham Health Care Center on March 21, 1995. Services were held March 24 at Kuhn Funeral Home in Earlham. Burial was in Ellis Cemetery.

Ms. Prohaska was born on December 28, 1902, to Frank J. and Elsie Lucia (Sears) Prohaska on a farm near Earlham. She graduated from DeSoto High School and Simpson College. She taught in Iowa schools for many years and acted as school librarian in Harvard, Ill., until her retirement to West Des Moines. Ms. Prohaska lived at the Earlham Health Care Center since 1978.

She is survived by her husband, Harlan, of Ames, and her brother, Fred G. Prohaska, of Winterset. She was preceded in death by her parents.