Kathy Pendergast

NORFOLK â€” Services for Kathleen J. Pendergast, 61, of Madison will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday at St. Johnâ€™s Lutheran Church in Norfolk with burial in Thabor Lutheran Cemetery at Wausa and the Rev. Edgar Schambach officiating. Visitation will be 4 to 8 p.m Sunday at Stonacek Funeral Chapel in Norfolk\r\nShe died Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010, at Countryside Home.\r\nâ€”â€”â€”\r\nShe was born July 24, 1949, at Osmond to Leonard and Dorothy (Hoeppner) Erickson and was baptized and confirmed at Thabor Lutheran Church at Wausa. She attended Wausa Elementary School and graduated from Norfolk High School in 1967.\r\nShe married Michael Pendergast in 1975 at St. Johnâ€™s Lutheran Church in Norfolk. They divorced in 2000.\r\nAfter marriage, Kathy worked at Dale Electronics. When Kathy had children, she was a homemaker and worked for Norfolk elementary schools in the hot lunch program. Later she worked for McDonaldâ€™s in Norfolk for 15 years and then Service Master in Norfolk from 2001 to 2007.\r\nKathy was diagnosed with cancer July 2008. She lived at the Countryside Home in Madison since February 2010. Kathy volunteered with PTA, Norfolk 4-H, as a Sunday school teacher at St. Johnâ€™s Lutheran Church in Norfolk and as a Girl Scout troop leader. She belonged to the VFW and enjoyed sewing and needlework.\r\nShe was a member of St. Johnâ€™s Lutheran Church, Norfolk, and VFW Post 1644, Norfolk.\r\nSurvivors include two children, daughter Jodi and husband Ben Cunard of Omaha, son Dustin Pendergast and fiancee Megan Lurz of Norfolk; two sisters, Cheryl and husband Jerry Jensen of Sutherland, Iowa, Connie and husband Fred Wortmann of Norfolk; two brothers, Kevin and wife Vicki Erickson and Brian Erickson of Norfolk.\r\nShe was preceded in death by parents and three siblings, Marilyn Cisler, Jane Anderson and Gerald Erickson\r\nOrganist will be Steve Reinke with congregational hymns â€œIn the Garden,â€ â€œAmazing Grace,â€ â€œBorning Cry.â€\r\nCasket bearers will be Dirk Arneson, Jermiah Arneson, Colby Anderson, Heath Cisler, Bryce Warrick, Joe Russell.

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Kathy Pendergast

November 18, 2010