Marion Eurma Jean Kudera 1936-2011

KUDERA HALL CRAWFORD

Posted By: Connie Swearingen-Volunteer (email)
Date: 8/24/2012 at 11:00:05

Sioux City Journal
July 28, 2011

Marion Eurma Jean Kudera, 74, of Sioux City died Sunday, July 24, 2011, at a Sioux City hospital.

Services will be 11 a.m. Friday at Morningside Chapel, Christy-Smith Funeral Homes, with Masonic Chaplain Neil L. Peck officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Visitation will be 4 to 8 p.m. today, with the family present 6 to 8 p.m., at the funeral home. Online condolences may be posted at www.christysmith.com.

Eurma was born Aug. 27, 1936, in O'Neill, Neb., the daughter of Horace and Pearl (Hall) Crawford. Eurma was raised in Nebraska and graduated from Ewing (Neb.) High School.

She married Eugene D. Kudera on Aug. 5, 1955, at her parents' home in Ewing. The family lived in Siouxland for many years before moving permanently to Sioux City in 1975.

She was employed as a secretary at Central Lyon High School in Rock Rapids, Iowa. In Sioux City, she was employed at Bush Dry Cleaners and Laundry for close to 20 years before she retired.

She was a member of the Methodist faith and Women of the Moose. She was a former member of Morningside Eastern Star and Daughters of the Nile. She enjoyed crocheting, traveling to Arizona in the winter and spending time with her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Survivors include her husband, Eugene of Sioux City; three daughters and two sons, Cheryl (Dan), Peggy (Eric), Marcia (Herb), Kim and Joseph; a brother, Carlyle H. Crawford; a stepbrother, Bill Crawford; 12 grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren plus one on the way; and several nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents and several brothers and sisters.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be directed to Abu Bekr Shrine Transportation Fund.

"Mom, Grandma, Great-Grandma will always be remembered through the love from heart and hand by the many gifts she crocheted and knitted."