Puffer, Alice (Kostohryz) 1927 - 2021

PUFFER, KOSTOHRYZ, JESTRAB, RAGALLER, SMITH, BROADBENT, FITZPATRICK, HELGESON, BAREGI

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 5/19/2024 at 21:00:45

Alice Puffer, age 93, of Spillville, IA died on Monday, February 15, 2021 at Accura Healthcare in Cresco, IA.

Mass of Christian Burial will be 10:00 a.m. on Monday, February 22, 2021 at the St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church in Spillville with Rev. Robert Gross presiding. Burial will be in the church cemetery.

Visitation will be from 9:00 a.m. until the time of service at the church on Monday.

Everyone attending is asked to please wear a mask and practice social distancing.

Cards may be sent to her family at: 2014 255th Ave, Ridgeway, IA 52165

Alice was born in Protivin, Iowa on April 10, 1927 to Louis and Albina (Jestrab) Kostohryz. Alice fondly recalled growing up with her brothers Edwin and Raymond farming and fishing during the day and then staying out late dancing at night. Alice met her husband, Frank, at a dance at the Inwood in Spillville, Iowa and they were married in 1945. Together they farmed near Conover, Iowa and raised three children, Ronald, Patricia, and Betty. Alice kept busy with farm life, feeding calves, raising chickens, ducks, and guineas, and growing a big garden. She enjoyed cooking and baking and made wonderful homemade kolache and rohliky. Whenever you would visit the farm you could guarantee there would be a homemade treat to satisfy both her and your sweet tooth, like cookies or cake, and surely there was ice cream in the freezer. When not busy with farm life, Alice enjoyed polka dancing with Frank and listening to polka music, playing cards, reading magazines to collect recipes, watching cooking shows like Martha Stewart, and spending time with her family, especially her granddaughters. She frequently had good luck at euchre and 500 and would humbly say "you just have to play the cards as they come."

Alice will be lovingly remembered by her children Ronald, Ridgeway, IA, and Betty (Steve) Ragaller, Minneapolis, MN, son-in-law Ken Smith Springfield, MO; grandchildren Carmen Broadbent, Springfield, MO, Danielle (Ryan Fitzpatrick) Smith, Billings, MT, Sara (Zach) Helgeson, Minneapolis, MN, Terese (Tony) Baregi, Minneapolis, MN, and Kathryn Ragaller, Minneapolis, MN.

She was preceded in death by her husband Frank Puffer, daughter Patricia Smith, parents Louis and Albina (Jestrab) Kostohryz, and siblings Raymond (Evelyn) Kostohryz and Edwin Kostohryz.

Source: Schluter-Balik Funeral Home database

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