Mary Ann Comer Kammel (1911-2009) - Find a Grave Memorial

Mary Ann Comer Kammel

Birth

29 Apr 1911

Shenandoah, Page County, Virginia, USA

Death

10 Jul 2009 (aged 98)

La Crosse, La Crosse County, Wisconsin, USA

Burial

Coverstone Cemetery

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Mary Markos Kammel

Mary Markos Kammel,98, of La Crosse was called to her Lord on Friday, July 10,2009.
She was born April 29,1911, in Shenandoah, Va., to Frank P. and Fannie (Baugher) Comer. On April 14,1933, she married Sam Markos in Luray, Va., and he preceded her in death on July 7, 1976, she married William Kammel, and he preceded her in death June 6,1983.
Mary graduated in May 1932 as a registered nurse from
Rockingham Memorial Hospital in Harrisonburg, Va. She practiced her profession in Virginia, West Virginia and at Luthern Hospital in LaCrosse, until her retirement in 1972.
Mary was a member of first Presbyterian Church in La Crosse, where she served with Anna Cronon circle. She also was a member of La Crosse Chapter No. 22 of Order of the Eastern Star, Naim group, AARP and an active member of the Republican Party. Mary enjoyed her final years with friends and staff at Bethany-St. Joseph Care Center in La Crosse.
Survivors include two stepdaughters, La Vonne (Robert) Glasgow and Sandra (Joe) Demoran; a stepson-in-law, Donald Humm; six step-granddaughters, Linda
(Andrew) Temte, Donna (Russ) Flower, Brenda (Jerry) Sibik, Cathy Conway, Shelly (Gordon) Krause and Laurie (Chris) Colburn; 11 Step-grandchildren; three sisters, Brownie Cave of Virginia, Dr. Margaret Kupiec and Peggy Sepcic, both of Pennsylvania; and many nieces and nephews.
In addtion to her first and second husbands, Mary was preceded in death by her parents; two stepdaughters, Karen Humm and Lorraine Tanke; two Stepgrandaughters, Joan Benson and Sue Tanke; three bothers, Frank Comer, Claude Comer and John Comer; and five sisters, Catherine Nichols, Beulah Huffman, Alma Schuler, Grace Shackelford and Nellie Robinson.
Memorial services will be 11 a.m. Tuesday at First Presbyterian Church, Hope Chapel, 233 West Av.,S. La Crosse.
The Rev. Dr. J. Taylor Haley will officiate. Interment will be in Shenandoah at a later date. Family and friends may call from 10;30 a.m. Tuesday until the time of services at the church. Memorials mat be given to Gundersen Luthern Foundation, First Presbyterian Church or Shrine Hospital for Crippled Children. Woodruff-Jandt Funeral Home, La Crosse, is in charge of arrangements.

La Crosse Tribune
Sunday Jul 12,2009