Obituary for Cora L. Genail (Bierbaum)
Cora L. Genail, 103, of Atchison, KS, passed away Friday, November 5, 2021, at Gran Villa nursing home, Atchison, KS.
Funeral service will be 2:00 PM, Wednesday, November 10, 2021, at Trinity Lutheran Church, Atchison, KS, with Rev. Robert Ziegler officiating. Burial will follow at Sunset Memory Gardens, Cemetery. The family will receive friends 1:00 to 2:00 PM prior to the service at the church. Memorials are suggested to Trinity Lutheran School Sponsor Plan and may be sent in care of the Becker-Dyer-Stanton Funeral home. Online condolences may be left at www.beckerdyer.com.
Cora was born October 12, 1918, the daughter of Frederick and Elizabeth (Vogel) Bierbaum. She graduated from Atchison High School in 1936. Cora had worked in the ship yards when they lived in Portland OR and then Wilson’s Poultry in Atchison and was a clerk for Kresgie Variety Store for twenty-two years as well a homemaker. She was a member of the Trinity Lutheran Church, a charter member of the Priscilla Guild and LWML. She enjoyed bowling, sewing quilt tops, having made over two thousand of them and Royals baseball.
Cora married William D. Genail on June 28, 1938, in Troy, KS; he preceded her in death on August 6, 1987. Survivors include three daughters; Sandra Green, Atchison, KS, Marsha and Edward Durkin, Bartlesville, OK and Vicky and William Godding, Kingston, OK, three sons; Bill and Anelle Genail, Atchison, KS, Gary and Linda Genail, Atchison, KS, Larry Genail, Atchison, KS, thirteen grandchildren, twenty-three great grandchildren and eleven great great grandchildren.
She was also preceded by her parents, two sons; Dwayne and Wayne Genail, two brothers; Frederick and Carl (twin of Cora) Bierbaum, three sisters; Magdalene Stubinger, Edna Cecil and Marie Shepherd and a son-in-law, Gene A. Green.
Funeral service will be 2:00 PM, Wednesday, November 10, 2021, at Trinity Lutheran Church, Atchison, KS, with Rev. Robert Ziegler officiating. Burial will follow at Sunset Memory Gardens, Cemetery. The family will receive friends 1:00 to 2:00 PM prior to the service at the church. Memorials are suggested to Trinity Lutheran School Sponsor Plan and may be sent in care of the Becker-Dyer-Stanton Funeral home. Online condolences may be left at www.beckerdyer.com.
Cora was born October 12, 1918, the daughter of Frederick and Elizabeth (Vogel) Bierbaum. She graduated from Atchison High School in 1936. Cora had worked in the ship yards when they lived in Portland OR and then Wilson’s Poultry in Atchison and was a clerk for Kresgie Variety Store for twenty-two years as well a homemaker. She was a member of the Trinity Lutheran Church, a charter member of the Priscilla Guild and LWML. She enjoyed bowling, sewing quilt tops, having made over two thousand of them and Royals baseball.
Cora married William D. Genail on June 28, 1938, in Troy, KS; he preceded her in death on August 6, 1987. Survivors include three daughters; Sandra Green, Atchison, KS, Marsha and Edward Durkin, Bartlesville, OK and Vicky and William Godding, Kingston, OK, three sons; Bill and Anelle Genail, Atchison, KS, Gary and Linda Genail, Atchison, KS, Larry Genail, Atchison, KS, thirteen grandchildren, twenty-three great grandchildren and eleven great great grandchildren.
She was also preceded by her parents, two sons; Dwayne and Wayne Genail, two brothers; Frederick and Carl (twin of Cora) Bierbaum, three sisters; Magdalene Stubinger, Edna Cecil and Marie Shepherd and a son-in-law, Gene A. Green.