re until she was 102. She excelled at sewing clothes for herself and her only daughter, Cheryl, and was an excellent baker of all kinds of delicious desserts and homemade breads. She was well known for baking gooseberry pies for the Trinity Lutheran Church food stand during the Pottawattamie County Fair each year.
She was kind, patient and generous to her family, who will be forever thankful for her loving presence, and was a shining example of how to grow old gracefully.
Leora passed away on April 17, 2019 at Avoca Speciality Care in Avoca, Iowa attaining the age of one hundred three years, two months and fourteen days. She is preceded in death by her husband, Joseph; parents, Fred and Ida Kuhr; brother Vernon Kuhr and sister-in-law Opal Kuhr.
Left to cherish her memory is her daughter Cheryl and husband Dick Johnson of Lincoln, Nebraska; grandchildren Chris Johnson and wife Leslie of Redondo Beach, California; Kellie and her husband Bill Pickett of Omaha, Nebraska; great grandsons Luc, Porter and Cade Johnson of Redondo Beach, California; Brayden and Tanner Pickett of Omaha, Nebraska; niece Joann and husband Keith Lambertsen of Garwin, Iowa; great niece Kenna Lambertsen and her son Jonathan.
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