Addie Emeline Kortan

Addie Emeline Kortan, 95, a 21-year resident of Gardnerville, died in Carson City on Dec. 27, 2008.

Born Jan. 4, 1913, in Meridian, Miss., she married Mikel Kortan in 1945, and they eventually moved to California in 1955.

Mrs. Kortan was a homemaker and worked at Mercy San Juan Hospital in Sacramento. She and her husband became residents of Gardnerville in 1988.

She loved cooking, sewing, gardening, keeping up with current events and learning new things until she died.

She was preceded in death by her husband Mikel in 2006; a brother, a daughter and a son.

She is survived by her son and daughter-in-law Robert and Joanne Kortan of Gardnerville; daughters Karen Kortan of Gardnerville, Kristina Conner of Rexburg, Idaho, and Sara (Larry) Souhrada of Atwater, Calif.; six grandchildren; six great-grandchildren and two great-great grandchildren.

Mrs. Kortan will be buried with her husband in Tabor, S.D.