Barbara Kotlowski

Barbara Vada Parrott Kotlowski Whiting, IN Barbara Vada Parrott Kotlowski, age 54, of Whiting, IN, formerly of Hessville, died from emphysema and kidney failure on Wednesday, December 21, 2005. Barbara was born and raised in Maryville, TN in 1951. Barbara was preceded in death by her loving parents: Leon Parrott Sr. and Edna Mae Hicks. Barbara is survived by her husband, Anthony Joseph Kotlowski and four daughters: Cheryl Lee Pawinski of Fort Wayne, Jenny Lynn Zielinski of Lake Station, Sabrina Marie Pawinski and Rebecca Pawinski of Maryville, TN. Barbara is survived by two brothers and three sisters: Leon Parrott Jr., Michael Dean Parrott, Theresa Parrott and Wanda Faye Ramos, all of Maryville, TN and Mary Peluyera of Lake Station; grandchildren, cousins, nieces, nephews and many friends. Visitation will be held at the Anthony and Dziadowicz Funeral Home, 4404 Cameron Avenue, Hammond (two blocks east of Hohman, one block north of Gostlin) on Monday, December 26, 2005 from 3 to 8 p.m. with Corporate Rosary Service at 7:00 p.m. A Mass of the Resurrection will be held directly at the St. John the Baptist Church, 1849 Lincoln Avenue, Whiting on Tuesday, December 27, 2005 at 10:00 a.m. with Rev. John E. Kalicky, C.PP.S., officiating. Burial will be at St. John Cemetery, Hammond. Barbara was a parishioner of St. John the Baptist Church. She was a member of the St. Margaret Mary Church Blue Army Rosary Makers, World Apostolate of Fatima, Skafish Fan Club, Blue Army Cell, St. Anne Bible and Rosary Prayer Group and the Laboratoire D'Automation de Comportement de Notre Dame (Lamb) of North Hammond. Barbara was a patron of Marian Fine Art and Music. She worked diligently to peacefully soul win through her preaching of the gospel and of her gospel oriented crafts that were distributed worldwide through her catholic non-profit organization. Other private organizational memorial masses will be held at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Chicago, Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Hammond and the Roman Catholic Community of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, Hammond. Memorials may be made to St. John the Baptist, or the Gary Diocesan World Apostolate of Fatima, or the American Lung Association in her memory.