Zolamae Lucille (Lindley) Prohaska

LINDLEY, PALMER, PROHASKA, VANDERPLAS

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 7/23/2011 at 11:47:57

The Daily Journal, Kankakee, Illinois
January 16, 2008

The funeral for Zolamae L. Prohaska will be at 1 p.m. Friday at the Greenleafton Reformed Church in rural Preston, with the Rev. Roger Lokker officiating. Burial will be in Cherry Grove Cemetery.

Mrs. Prohaska, 83, formerly a longtime Preston area resident, died Tuesday (Jan. 15, 2008) at the Field Crest Care Center in Hayfield.

Zolamae Lindley was born July 29, 1924, in Rooks County, Kan. Following the death of her mother, she moved with her family to Cumming, Iowa, in 1938. She married Donald Evans Prohaska on Aug. 9, 1941, in Norwalk, Iowa. The couple made their home on a farm west of Des Moines, Iowa, until moving to Truro, Iowa, where they ran a movie theater and did contract hauling with two dump trucks. In 1948 they moved to Minnesota, and with her husband's brother, Clarence, bought Mystery Cave in rural Spring Valley, which they operated for a number of years. In 1960 they purchased a farm in the Forestville area of Fillmore County.

Mr. Prohaska died Aug. 10, 1974. For the next 15 years, Mrs. Prohaska worked as a live-in companion for a number of people. In 1989 she and her daughter, Lois, started Maple Springs Campground in Forestville. She moved to Hayfield in 1996 and had resided at the care center since February 2007. She was a member of the Greenleafton Reformed Church and was a volunteer driver with SEMCAC in Dodge County. She enjoyed playing cards, reading, doing puzzles, sightseeing, touring the country in her car and helping others.

She is survived by two daughters, Doris Mae (John) Palmer of Osborne, Kan., and Lois Loretta (Arvin) VanderPlas of Harmony; a son, Donald Glenn (Rose) of rural Kasson; seven grandchildren; and 13 great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, a sister and two brothers.

Friends may call from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday at Thauwald Funeral Home in Spring Valley, and an hour before the service Friday at the church.

Memorials are preferred to the family or the Cherry Grove Cemetery Association.