Josephine MacGlover, age 98, of Ham Lake died May 30, 2012 at Anoka Care Center. Funeral services will be at 2:00 P.M. on Sunday, June 3rd at Strike Funeral Home – Isanti Chapel with Father James David Hahn officiating. A visitation will be held 1 hour prior to the service at the chapel on Sunday. Interment will be in Constance Free Church Cemetery.
Josephine T. MacGlover was born April 19, 1914 in Minneapolis, Minnesota to Joseph and Caroline Kowalczyk. She attended school in Minneapolis. At a young age her mother passed away. Josephine’s step-mom Anna Kowalczyk and father raised her. On May 29, 1934 she married Richard MacGlover in Anoka. They lived in Anoka County ever since. They farmed for many years. Josephine enjoyed reading, gardening and cooking.
She will be lovingly remembered by her two sons, Don (Dellis) MacGlover of Ham Lake, Rick MacGlover (Linda Benson) of Ham Lake; two daughters, Jean Toth (Clem Brutger) of Foreston, JoAnne BerningMorrison (Bill Morrison) of Zimmerman; two sisters, Laone Hammer of Burnsville, Julie (Dale) Bengston of Congress, Arizona; two brothers, Frank Kowalczyk of Seattle, Ted Kovalczyk of New Hope; 9 grandchildren, 10 great-grandchildren, 3 great-great-grandchildren; many nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.
Josephine was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Richard, son Gerald and by brother, Joe Kowalczyk and by sister Helen Frank.
When my Mother, Laon Hammer, finally met her oldest sister, Josephine, it was like looking in a mirror. They looked alike, talked and gestured the same, even though Laon (born Bronis) was adopted out of the family at 6 months old. It has been a great comfort to my Mother to meet her birth family, to find peole that she looks like and to share life’s ups and downs with Josephine over the last decades of their lives. Even though I can’t travel to be with you this weekend, please know that you are in my thoughts and prayers. My Mother is almost at the end of her life, so I can only imagine now the hole that is left in your family.
Thank you grandma for all the memories i will cherish
You have always been there for us. Give grandpa a hug. Love you and miss yoi
There is one peticular Christmas dinner I will always remember in 1974. I can picture it in my mind as if it was yesterday. Our family was there for dinner and Ma MacGlover baked lutefisk of course(Christmas dinner and all). I never liked lutefisk until that day, and ever since then, that is the way I make it. Now she’s up in Heaven with Pa smiling down here on their family and friends. For those of you reading this wondering why I call them Ma and Pa, we always refered to them as Ma and Pa MacGlover, it doesn’t sound right to say any other name, it’s with endearment. My sincere sympathy to your family.