Ethel Kosgard (1938-2000)

KOSGARD, HALL, JORGENSON, WILLIAMS, SIRD, MCDONALD, JONES, WHITE

Posted By: Beverly Witmer (email)
Date: 2/4/2013 at 23:44:50

Quad-City Times, Davenport, Iowa, April, 2000

Ethel Kosgard

DAVENPORT - Services for Ethel M. Kosgard, 61, a resident of Davenport, will be 1 p.m. Saturday, in the chapel at Halligan-McCabe-DeVries Funeral Home. Burial will be in Mount Calvary Cemetery, Davenport.

Visitation is 4-8 p.m. today at the funeral home with a prayer service at 6 p.m. Additional visitation will be noon until service time Saturday.

Mrs. Kosgard died Wednesday, April 5, 2000, at Genesis Medical Center-West Campus, following a courageous 12-year battle with cancer.

Ethel Mae Hall was born July 31, 1938, in Iowa City, to George and Mabel (Jorgenson) Hall. She married William T. Kosgard on March 30, 1957, in Columbus, Miss. They recently celebrated their 43rd wedding anniversary.

She was a member of Holy Family Catholic Church. Ethel enjoyed making crafts of all kinds as a hobby.

Memorials can be made to a memorial fund established in Ethel's name.

Survivors include her husband, Bill, sons and daughters-in-law, William and Mickey Kosgard, and Kenneth and Misty Kosgard, and daughters and sons-in-law, Patricia and Charles Williams, Karla Kosgard, and Julia and Robert Sird, all of Davenport, and Katherine and Layton McDonald, Columbus Junction, Iowa; 17 grandchildren and a great-grandson; brothers, Robert, and spouse, Zelma Hall, Quincy, Ill., and Richard Hall, Cedar Rapids, Iowa; and sisters, Beverly, and spouse, Herbert Jones, and Estella, and spouse, Harold White, both of Davenport.

Her parents, a sister, Betty, and brother, William, preceded her in death.

"Mom was a loving and caring soul, who loved all her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Mom loved to go fishing with Dad on the river. She also was a big bingo nut. Mom was a very proud 24-year member of A.A. We were very proud of her and the way she lived her life. Mom will be missed very much by all of us."