Kozelka obituaries, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana 

************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm
************************************************

Name, date of obit, date submitted, submitted for the USGenWeb archives by:

Kozelka, Richard B.       9 Sep 2009    Sep 2009    Jerry Nelson

***************************************************************************

Obituary published in The Hammond Daily Star:  9/9/2009

KOZELKA, RICHARD B. 
The Reverend Richard B. Kozelka, Hammond, died on Sunday, September 6,
2009, at 4:33 PM. He was 83. Cause of death was a brain tumor complicated
by Parkinson's.  Kozelka was retired Principal Minister of First
Congregational Church of Minnesota in Minneapolis, which he served from
1974 to 1991, the longest pastorate in the church's history. He had
previously served churches in Cannon Falls, Minnesota; Sparta, Wisconsin;
Denver, Colorado and Montclair, New Jersey. He was graduated from Yale
University Divinity School and ordained a minister of the United Church of
Christ in 1951.  The son of the late Dean/Professor-Emeritus Richard L.
Kozelka of the University of Minnesota and Winifred Bradley Kozelka, both
of whom died in 1985, Kozelka received the BA and MA degrees from that
university in 1946 and 1953.  He is survived by his twin brother Robert of
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, by four children: Sara B. Caraszi and Amy Gail
Kozelka of Connecticut, Richard E. Kozelka of Maryland and Barbara P.
Kozelka of Colorado, by two grandchildren, Eric Caraszi of San Francisco
and Anna Caraszi of Portland, Maine, and by his wife Katherine Kolb,
Professor of French and German at Southeastern Louisiana University, with
whom he moved to Hammond in 1999.  A memorial service will be held on
Friday, September 18 at 4PM in the Reimer's Auditorium on Cherry St. in
downtown Hammond. Memorials are suggested to the Hammond Unitarian Church.

***************************************************************************

File at: 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/la/tangipahoa/obits/obitssur/kozelka.txt