Lebanon County PA Archives Obituaries.....Kotulka, Grace January 9, 2011
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Published in Lebanon Daily News  from January 11 to January 12
Grace Kotulka 

PALMYRA Grace Zipporah Graham Kotulka, 93, went home to be with the Lord, on 
Sunday, January 9, 2011, at M.S. Hershey Medical Center. She was the wife of 
the late Eugene W. Graham and the late John F. Kotulka. Grace was a dedicated 
wife, homemaker, mother, grandma, and great grandmother. Born in E. Hanover 
Twp., Lebanon, Co., on July 8, 1917, she was the daughter of the late Daniel 
and Sallie Doutrich Yorty. A member of Lebanon God's Missionary Church, Grace 
served as a Deaconess and Sunday School teacher for many years. She was a 
charter member of Lebanon Valley Holiness Association (LVHA) and Lebanon Valley 
Gospel Band in which she played the English horn and trombone. Grace graduated 
from the former Jonestown High School and continued to be active in the one 
room school house group. Selflessly serving others, Grace volunteered for her 
church, LVHA, Lebanon Valley Brethren Home, and Mt. Bethany hunting camp. She 
worked with "Up7thSt.", a young girls' club, sharing her gardening cooking, and 
sewing skills. Grace also traveled many times to Haiti to serve as a cook for 
church missions and relief efforts and participated in women's retreats. She 
enjoyed gardening, canning, sewing, needlework, quilting, Scrabble, word and 
jigsaw puzzles, and traveling Grace especially enjoyed entertaining and taking 
meals to shut-ins and baking cookies for neighbors and friends. Little in 
stature but huge in influence, she was oftened referred to as "Amazing Grace". 
She is survived by sons, Paul R. Graham of Annville and Eugene D., husband of 
Mary Graham of Lebanon; daughters, Dorcas A., wife of James Walton of 
Sebastopol, Calif., and Charlotte M. Folmer of Harrisburg; a sister Pauline 
Fisher of Myerstown; grandchildren, Matthew Graham, Kirstyn Walton, Robert 
Graham, Arron Graham, Lars Walton, Kaitlyn Folmer, and Nicholas Folmer; her 
great-grandchildren, Grace Graham and Jonah Marcus; stepchildren, Sharon Raub, 
Priscilla Bartholomew, Joel Kotulka, Eunice Possinger, and John Kotulka; 10 
stepgrandchildren; and 16 step great-grandchildren. Grace was preceded in death 
by her son, Lynn E. Graham; brothers, Henry, Ernest, Mark, and Sherwood Yorty; 
and sisters, Miriam Miller and Rhoda Noll Surginer. Funeral services will be 
held at 1 p.m. Saturday at Lebanon God's Missionary Church, 2127 Hill St., 
Lebanon. Viewing will be held two hours prior to the service at the church. 
Interment will be at Grand View Memorial Park, N. AnnvilleTwp. 

Published in Lebanon Daily News from January 11 to January 12

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