Individual Details
Cora June Winsness
(29 Jun 1914 - 21 Jun 2003)
Cora Winsness Matthews -- Rochester MN
ROCHESTER -- The funeral for Cora W. Matthews will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Zumbro Lutheran Church in Rochester, with the Rev. Gary Benson officiating. Burial will be in Grandview Memorial Gardens in Rochester.
Mrs. Matthews, 88, of 2205 Second St. S.W. in Rochester, died Saturday (June 21, 2003) at Season's Hospice in Rochester.
Cora Winsness Matthews was born June 29, 1914, in Cathay, N.D., daughter of Jens Winsness and Emma Bjugstad Winsness. On May 13, 1944, she married Charles Matthews in Fessenden, N.D. Mrs. Matthews was a homemaker. She had lived in Rochester since 1956 and enjoyed sewing, gardening, stained glass and Norwegian baking.
Survivors include her husband; a son, C. Robert (Paula-Ann) of Shrewsbury, Mass.; a daughter, Caryl (Gary) Matthews Luis of Granite Bay, Calif.; four grandchildren; and a great-grandchild. Her brothers John and Arnold preceded her in death.
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Biography of Cora Winsness
Cora June Winsness was born on June 29, 1914 on the farm in Cathy, ND. She attended school in a one room schoolhouse a few miles from the farm. She graduated from high school in 1932. She spent her growing up years on the farm helping her mother cook and manage the house for the hired hands and thrashing crews. After she graduated from high school, she worked in Fessenden, ND. I don’t know what kind of work she did, but the money she made was used to help pay for her brother John’s college education. Somewhere between 1934 and 1938 she attended a business school in Fargo, ND where she learned secretarial skills. She did not want to stay on the farm. In 1939, she left ND to work in Philadelphia, PA as a secretary for the Social Security Administration.. Her brother, John and his wife Peg were living there. Cora lived in an apartment with another woman from ND in Upper Darby, PA. She would take the elevated train to Philadelphia to get to work. She and her roommate loved to dance, and at that time, young people would go to “mixers”, listen to music and dance. It was at one of these dances that she met our father, Charles Matthews. The year was probably 1942. They continued to date until deciding to marry May 13, 1944 in Fessenden, ND.
After the wedding, Charles, who had enlisted in the United States Army in 1943 had to return to duty in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Cora followed him there and to the other Army Air Bases in Louisiana, Florida, and North Carolina until Dad’s discharge from the Army on Feb. 14, 1946 at Fort Dix, NJ.
Cora was a homemaker. Cora loved playing bridge, working in the garden, was a good bowler, enjoyed making stained glass projects, sewed her own clothes and loved to bake Norwegian cookies. She also loved to work with wood and made a curio cabinet for her tea cups. Her daughter has this curio cabinet now.
by Caryl Matthews Luis
Cora Winsness Matthews -- Rochester MN
ROCHESTER -- The funeral for Cora W. Matthews will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Zumbro Lutheran Church in Rochester, with the Rev. Gary Benson officiating. Burial will be in Grandview Memorial Gardens in Rochester.
Mrs. Matthews, 88, of 2205 Second St. S.W. in Rochester, died Saturday (June 21, 2003) at Season's Hospice in Rochester.
Cora Winsness Matthews was born June 29, 1914, in Cathay, N.D., daughter of Jens Winsness and Emma Bjugstad Winsness. On May 13, 1944, she married Charles Matthews in Fessenden, N.D. Mrs. Matthews was a homemaker. She had lived in Rochester since 1956 and enjoyed sewing, gardening, stained glass and Norwegian baking.
Survivors include her husband; a son, C. Robert (Paula-Ann) of Shrewsbury, Mass.; a daughter, Caryl (Gary) Matthews Luis of Granite Bay, Calif.; four grandchildren; and a great-grandchild. Her brothers John and Arnold preceded her in death.
ROCHESTER -- The funeral for Cora W. Matthews will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Zumbro Lutheran Church in Rochester, with the Rev. Gary Benson officiating. Burial will be in Grandview Memorial Gardens in Rochester.
Mrs. Matthews, 88, of 2205 Second St. S.W. in Rochester, died Saturday (June 21, 2003) at Season's Hospice in Rochester.
Cora Winsness Matthews was born June 29, 1914, in Cathay, N.D., daughter of Jens Winsness and Emma Bjugstad Winsness. On May 13, 1944, she married Charles Matthews in Fessenden, N.D. Mrs. Matthews was a homemaker. She had lived in Rochester since 1956 and enjoyed sewing, gardening, stained glass and Norwegian baking.
Survivors include her husband; a son, C. Robert (Paula-Ann) of Shrewsbury, Mass.; a daughter, Caryl (Gary) Matthews Luis of Granite Bay, Calif.; four grandchildren; and a great-grandchild. Her brothers John and Arnold preceded her in death.
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Biography of Cora Winsness
Cora June Winsness was born on June 29, 1914 on the farm in Cathy, ND. She attended school in a one room schoolhouse a few miles from the farm. She graduated from high school in 1932. She spent her growing up years on the farm helping her mother cook and manage the house for the hired hands and thrashing crews. After she graduated from high school, she worked in Fessenden, ND. I don’t know what kind of work she did, but the money she made was used to help pay for her brother John’s college education. Somewhere between 1934 and 1938 she attended a business school in Fargo, ND where she learned secretarial skills. She did not want to stay on the farm. In 1939, she left ND to work in Philadelphia, PA as a secretary for the Social Security Administration.. Her brother, John and his wife Peg were living there. Cora lived in an apartment with another woman from ND in Upper Darby, PA. She would take the elevated train to Philadelphia to get to work. She and her roommate loved to dance, and at that time, young people would go to “mixers”, listen to music and dance. It was at one of these dances that she met our father, Charles Matthews. The year was probably 1942. They continued to date until deciding to marry May 13, 1944 in Fessenden, ND.
After the wedding, Charles, who had enlisted in the United States Army in 1943 had to return to duty in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Cora followed him there and to the other Army Air Bases in Louisiana, Florida, and North Carolina until Dad’s discharge from the Army on Feb. 14, 1946 at Fort Dix, NJ.
Cora was a homemaker. Cora loved playing bridge, working in the garden, was a good bowler, enjoyed making stained glass projects, sewed her own clothes and loved to bake Norwegian cookies. She also loved to work with wood and made a curio cabinet for her tea cups. Her daughter has this curio cabinet now.
by Caryl Matthews Luis
Cora Winsness Matthews -- Rochester MN
ROCHESTER -- The funeral for Cora W. Matthews will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Zumbro Lutheran Church in Rochester, with the Rev. Gary Benson officiating. Burial will be in Grandview Memorial Gardens in Rochester.
Mrs. Matthews, 88, of 2205 Second St. S.W. in Rochester, died Saturday (June 21, 2003) at Season's Hospice in Rochester.
Cora Winsness Matthews was born June 29, 1914, in Cathay, N.D., daughter of Jens Winsness and Emma Bjugstad Winsness. On May 13, 1944, she married Charles Matthews in Fessenden, N.D. Mrs. Matthews was a homemaker. She had lived in Rochester since 1956 and enjoyed sewing, gardening, stained glass and Norwegian baking.
Survivors include her husband; a son, C. Robert (Paula-Ann) of Shrewsbury, Mass.; a daughter, Caryl (Gary) Matthews Luis of Granite Bay, Calif.; four grandchildren; and a great-grandchild. Her brothers John and Arnold preceded her in death.
Events
| Birth | 29 Jun 1914 | Cathay, Wells County, ND |  | ||
| Marriage | 13 May 1944 | Fesenden, ND - Lutheran Church - Charles Leonard Matthews | |||
| Death | 21 Jun 2003 | Rochester, MN | | ||
| Death | 21 Jun 2003 | Rochester, MN ]] |
Families
| Spouse | Charles Leonard Matthews (1920 - 2010) |
| Child | Charles Robert Matthews |
| Child | Caryl Joan Matthews |
| Father | Jens Jensen Winsness ( - 1956) |
| Mother | Emma Bjugstad (1888 - 1954) |
| Sibling | John J. Winsness (1912 - 1972) |
| Sibling | Arnold Winsness (1918 - 1970) |
Endnotes
1. Grande_Winsness.FTW.
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