Joanne Drahozal

JOANNE DRAHOZAL

Cedar Rapids

M. Joanne (McElliott) Drahozal, 77, of Cedar Rapids, died of a heart attack Friday evening, May 23, 2014, at the Missouri Baptist Medical Center, St. Louis, Mo. Funeral Mass: 10 a.m. Saturday, May 31, at St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church with the Rev. Christopher Podhajsky presiding. Burial will follow in St. John's Cemetery. Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday at Papich-Kuba Funeral Home East, 1228 Second St. SE, where a rosary begins at 7:30 p.m.

M. Joanne Drahozal was born Sept. 18, 1936, in Independence, to James A. Colette (O'Neill) McElliott. She had lived in Cedar Rapids since 1954. Joanne married Jerry A. Drahozal on June 25, 1960, at St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Ryan. She was a retired registered nurse from the office of T.E. Stark M.D.

Joanne was a 1954 graduate of St. Patrick's Catholic School in Ryan and a 1957 graduate of the Mount Mercy College Department of Nursing. She was also a licensed insurance agent and very active in activities at St. Wenceslaus Church.

Joanne is survived by her husband of 63 years, Jerry; sons, Tim of Bensenville, Ill., and Tom (Dianne) of Chicago; and siblings, Janet (George) Howes, Shawnee, Kan., Judy (Jerry) Flanagan, Cedar Rapids, Jeanine (John) Reilly, Ankeny, Jayne (Gary) Schuster, Dubuque, Patrick (Cindy) McElliott, Cedar Rapids and Mike (Diane) McElliott, Ryan.

She was preceded in death by her parents; infant brother, Richard; infant sister, Patricia; sister-in-law, Diane McElliott; parents-in-law, Wencil and Olga A. Drahozal; and brothers-in-law, Wesley J. and Olga Drahozal and Stanley and Barbara Drahozal.

Memorial contributions may be given to St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church and the American Heart Association.

Online condolences may be left for the family at www.papich-kubafs.com

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