Individual Details

Evelyn Kortan

(February 22, 1921 - July 1, 2001)

Evelyn Kortan-DePree
80
Long Prairie
Jul 1, 2001

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at Our Lady of the Angels Catholic Church, Sauk Centre, for Evelyn R. Kortan-DePree, 80, who died Sunday at Long Prairie Memorial Nursing Home. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery. Friends may call from 4 to 8 tonight and from 8 to 10 a.m. Tuesday at Patton-Schad Funeral Home, Sauk Centre. Sauk Centre United Auxiliaries will pray at 7 tonight at the funeral home followed by Christian Mothers at 7:30 and parish prayers at 8.

Evelyn Kortan-DePree was born in Sauk Centre Township, Stearns County, to Charles and Mary (Novak) Kortan. She was raised and worked on the Kortan farm in Sauk Centre. She was employed by Jennie-O in Melrose for many years. She married Donald DePree on Oct. 2, 1971, in Park Rapids. She lived in nursing homes for the past 12 years. She was a member of Our Lady of the Angels Catholic Church, Christian Mothers and American Legion Post 67 Auxiliary.

Survivors include her brothers and sisters, Mathilda Dusek, Helen Norgarden, George and Richard of Sauk Centre.

She was preceded in death by her husband on April 25, 1977; and brothers, Bill, Steve, Frank, Charlie and Jim.

Events

BirthFebruary 22, 1921Sauk Centre, Stearns Co., MN
MarriageOctober 2, 1971Park Rapids, MN - Donald DePree
DeathJuly 1, 200156378 Sauk Centre, Stearns Co., MN

Families

SpouseDonald DePree (1906 - 1977)
FatherCharles Joseph Kortan (1873 - 1957)
MotherMary K. Novak (1880 - 1966)
SiblingWilliam Peter Kortan (1904 - 1984)
SiblingMathilda Kortan (1906 - 2007)
SiblingStephen L. Kortan (1907 - 1980)
SiblingFrank Kortan (1909 - 1968)
SiblingJames Kortan (1911 - 1916)
SiblingCharles Robert Kortan (1914 - 1999)
SiblingGeorge Kortan (1917 - 2009)
SiblingHelen Kortan
SiblingRichard Kortan