Obit for TWINEM, Bernice Marie (Miranowski/McRae) (b.1917 d.2005), Jackson Co., MN

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Born Bernice Marie Miranowski on February 6, 1917, in Heron Lake, MN to 

John Joseph Miranowski and Cora Gertrude Haberman. She passed away peacefully 

on Wednesday, April 13, 2005, in Visalia, CA.



Nicknamed Mira, she attended nursing school at St. Mary's School of Nursing,

graduating in August 1938. She worked as a surgical nurse and nursing 

supervisor before joining the Navy at the start of World War II. She met 

her first husband, Dr. Colin C. McRae, at the Corona Naval Hospital in 

Corona, CA, and they were married in 1946 in San Francisco where they 

raised five sons - Colin, John, Don, Richard, and Tom. Dr. McRae, a surgeon 

who served as President of the Board of Trustees of St. Francis Memorial 

Hospital in San Francisco from March 1962 until March 1965, passed away 

in 1967.



During her time in San Francisco, Mira was very active in her sons' schools 

and the St. Francis Hospital Medical Auxiliary. Following Dr. McRae's death, 

she returned to nursing at the Seamen's Medical Center in San Francisco.



In 1973, Mira married Dr. A. Chester Twinem, a general practitioner 

associated with Kaweah Delta District Hospital in Visalia, CA. Dr. and 

Mrs. Twinem loved to travel, covering much of the world during their 

years together.



Mira is survived by her husband, Chester, her five sons, Chester's children 

(Bill Twinem, Kati Jones, Maggi Twinen, her sister Lorraine Wisdorf, her

brother, Don Miranowski, her first husband's daughter, Joanne Gschwendtner. 

She is also survived by her 13 grandchildren and five great grandchildren.

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