Lottie J. Kocan, age 97,born in Oil City, Pennsylvania .daughter of .Stanley and Josephine Kapica Gabryszewski.
Lottie J. Kocan, age 97, of Erie,pa, passed away on Thursday, December 15, 2011 at Sunrise Assisted Living. She was born in Oil City, Pennsylvania on September 10, 1914 a daughter of the late Stanley and Josephine Kapica Gabryszewski. She and her husband Walter owned and operated the Purity Market in Oil City for 50 years. She enjoyed cooking, word puzzles, bingo and especially her grandchildren. Lottie was preceded in death by her husband Walter J. Kocan, a daughter Mary C. Kocan and three brothers Frank, Ted and Max Gabreski. She is survived by three daughters: Carol A. Rubin, (Charles) of Erie, Fran Bielak, (Michael) of North Royalton, Ohio and Doris Brown, (John) of Coarsegold, California; six grandchildren, two great grandchildren and a sister, Bernice Stanczak of New Castle. Lottie is also survived by many nieces and nephews. Friends are invited to gather on Monday at St. Andrew's Church, 1116 West 7th Street, from 10:30 a.m. until the time of a Funeral Mass at 11 a.m. Burial will be private at a later date in Calvary Cemetery, Oil City. Memorials may be made to VNA Hospice, 2253 West Grandview Blvd., Erie, PA 16506. (Erie Times-News on December 18, 2011 )
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