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Alma Petska Obituary
Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church in Ord, with the Revs. Tom Ryan and Mark Maresh officiating. Burial will be in the Ord Catholic Cemetery.
Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Ord Memorial Chapel, with a rosary at 7 p.m.
Mrs. Petska was born Oct. 14, 1917, to Frank and Emma (Rejda) Masin on the family farm in the house that her father built in the Eureka Township of Valley County. She was raised on the farm and received her education in a country school and graduated from Ord High School in 1936.
Alma received Normal Training and taught school in Valley County before her marriage. On June 28, 1938, she was united in marriage to Emanuel P. Petska at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church in Ord. In 1958, they purchased the family farm outside of Elryia where they resided until their passing. Alma was a devoted wife, mother and grandmother.
She was a member of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church and the Altar Society. She worked on the Valley County Election Board and was a 4-H Leader and Cub Scout Leader. She enjoyed flowers, gardening, canning and traveling with her husband. Alma was known for making, baking and sharing delicious kolaches and homemade angel food cake.
Survivors include two sons and daughters-in-law, Ken and Evelyn Petska and Roger and Cheri Petska, all of Elyria; three daughters and two sons-in-law, Mary Reeve of Independence, Mo., Linda and Melvin Linke of Scotia and Susan and Steve A. Pokorny of Lander, Wyo.; 19 grandchildren, 35 and counting great-grandchildren, six great-great-grandchildren; and one sister and brother-in-law, Viola and Lee Polk of Waverly.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Emanuel who passed away Feb. 8, 2008; a grandson, Shane Petska; grandson-in-law, Josh Espinosa; two sisters, Irene Hayes and Addie Long; a brother, Richard Masin and an infant sister, Lillian Ruth Masin.
Memorials are suggested to the Valley County Health System Hospice or the Kitchen Renovation at Gorak Parish Hall.
You may sign the online guestbook at theindependent.com.
To plant trees in memory, please visit the Sympathy Store.
Memories and Condolences
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Kathryn (Shotkoski) Hettrick
July 19, 2012
Dear Ken, Mary, Roger, Linda, Susan and Family,
My prayers of sympathy are with all of you as you grieve for your mother/grandmother. Alma was a kind, loving lady who always welcomed me to your family, as I visited often as Mary's friend. May you be consoled with the many loving memories you have of her and your dad. Thank God that they are now together.
My mother lives in a nursing home in G.I. She is 98 and doing well. My sister Marlene lives in G.I. and sent the obituary to me.
God bless all of you!
Pat (Larsen) Mattison
July 14, 2012
May God bless you and your family in this time of sorrow.
William and Beverly Brown
July 12, 2012
Friends,
May You feel God's embrace of love and tenderness during this time. Our thoughts and prayers go with You.
Heaven is for real.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm A. Brown
Cairo, NE
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