Date of Birth:
Friday, February 5, 1926
Date of Death:
Sunday, January 8, 2017
Age:
90 years old

Angela Cecilia Kroska

Angela (Angie) Cecilia (Dudley) Kroska, 90, died Sunday, January 8, at St. Mary’s Hospital.

Angie was born on February 5, 1926, in Shieldsville, Minnesota, to William and Mary Angella (McBreen) Dudley.  She attended the Shieldsville country grade school and Bethlehem Academy High School in Faribault, graduating in 1944.

She married Lucian (Dick) Kroska on May 14, 1946, in Shieldsville, MN, at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church.  The couple lived in Faribault, MN, and Eau Claire and Wausau, WI, during the first years of their marriage.  In 1958, they moved to Rochester, where they lived until 1991.  For the next 12 years, they lived in Byron and then returned to Rochester.  In 2014, Angie moved into an apartment at Madonna Towers.

After working as a homemaker for many years, she started her own custom-made drapery business, which she ran between the 1970s and 1990s.  After a short retirement, she began working at a card and gift shop until her second retirement in 2009.

Angie was a devoted mother and grandmother.  She also enjoyed playing the organ and piano for sing-along parties with her large circle of friends, pontooning and playing Scrabble with family and friends at the Cannon Lake cabin in Faribault, and completing difficult crossword puzzles.  In addition, she was actively involved with the Catholic Church.  In the 1960s, she served in a rosary group, worked as a cub scout leader, and taught catechism; in the 1960s and 1970s, she and Dick fostered several teenagers through Catholic Charities; and between the 1960s and 1990s, she served as a music group leader at St. Francis, Resurrection, Pax Christi, and St. John’s Catholic Churches, directing at weekly Masses and at dozens of weddings.

She is survived by her daughters, Luanne (Larry) Koshire and Shelly Kuhlmann of Rochester and Amy Kroska (Rob Clark) of Norman, Oklahoma; foster daughter, Sue (Jon) Birch of Faribault; grandchildren, Christopher (Kristi) Koshire, Molly (Dan) Gossman, Andrew Koshire, Emily (Jack) Fugalli, Aaron (Sabrina) Kroska, Brett (Anita) Kroska, Nicholas Kuhlmann, Peter (Alicia) Kuhlmann, and Michael (Jennifer) Birch.  She is also survived by great grandchildren, Max, Hunter, and Ava Koshire; Isabella and Amelia Gossman; Sophia, Clara, Leo, and Hazel Koshire; Ellie Kroska; Diego and Daniela Garcia-Kuhlmann; Sidney Kuhlmann; and Zsuzsanna, Hannah, Samantha, Emily, and Katie Birch; and by many nieces and nephews.

She is preceded in death by her husband, Dick; son, Nick Kroska; son-in-law, Mike Kuhlmann; parents; and siblings, Jerome Dudley, Margaret Oppegard, George Dudley, and Charlotte Zinda.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Thursday, January 12, at St. Pius X Catholic Church in Rochester at 11:30 am.  Visitation will be held at Macken Funeral Home from 5:00-7:00 pm on Wednesday, January 11, and for one hour prior to the funeral Mass.  The burial will take place at St. Lawrence Cemetery in Faribault, Minnesota, at a later date.

The family suggests memorials to Nick Kroska Scholarship Fund for Lourdes High School in Rochester or to Brains Together For a Cure.  Memorials can be brought to services, mailed to the organizations, or submitted electronically to http://www.lourdesfoundation.org/make-a-gift/give-now and https://www.brainstogetherforacure.org/donate/.