Marie Bernice (Erickson) LARSON KOSAB

LARSON, KOSAB, ERICKSON, HANSEN, DAVIDSON, VYHLIDAL, CRISSY, FORBES, SCHUTTE, SCHUTTE-FORBES, MILLER, HUEBNER, MILLER-HUEBNER, HARMS, WITTSTRUCK

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 3/5/2011 at 20:23:52

January 7, 1928 --- November 13, 2009

Marie B. Larson Kosbab, 81, nurses’ aid & waitress

Marie B. Larson Kosbab, 81, of Stratford, formerly of Alcester, South Dakota, died Friday November 13, 2009, at the Stratford Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. Funeral services were held Tuesday, November 17, at 1 p.m., at the Big Springs Baptist Church in Alcester, S.D., with Pastor Daryll Runyan officiating. Burial was held in the Big Springs Cemetery.

Marie Bernice Erickson, daughter of Alvin and Deloris Hansen Erickson, was born January 7, 1928, at Hudson, S.D. She received her education in the Union County area of South Dakota. On February 28, 1949, she married Fred Larson at the Big Springs Baptist Church. The couple farmed in the Alcester area. She worked in a Hawarden factory, and at several nursing homes as a nurses’ aid. She also worked at area restaurants. Mr. Larson died April 3, 1986. In 1987, she married Paul Kosbab, at Forman, N.D. The couple moved to North Dakota. Paul died in 1994. She then lived in the Alcester, Akron, and Hawarden area. In 2004, she moved to Webster City, Iowa, and for the past 3 years has resided at Stratford.

Marie and Fred were the parents of four children, Linda and Ray Davidson of Webster City; Charlotte and Don Vyhlidal of Pierce, Neb.; Janet Crissy and Mark Larson, all of Sioux Falls, S.D.; 15 grandchildren; 23 great-grandchildren; sisters, Gertrude Schutte-Forbes of Denver, Colo.; Frances Miller-Huebner of Akron; brother, Donald Erickson of Denver, Colo. In addition to her husbands, she was preceded in death by her parents; brother, Arnold Erickson; grandson, Charles Wittstruck; and great-grandson, Caleb Harms. Foster Funeral Home and Cremation of Webster City was in charge of arrangements.

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November 18, 2009