Birth date: Apr 29, 1948 Death date: Mar 27, 2024
Mary Beth Jurkowski passed away at Good Samaritan Hospital in Portland Oregon on March 27th, 2024. She was surrounded by her family and ready to be at peace from her courageous battle with Advanced Kidney Cancer. Mary was born on Read Obituary
Mary Beth was my best friend after meeting her in our final years of high school. The schools were some 25 miles apart, but it worked. This is a picture of us the night of my graduation from high school in 1966. Lots of changes over the years, but our smiles never did or our love of life. We shared our first apartment after HS as incoming phone calls could get mixed up so she became Mary Beth #1 and I was Mary Beth, the other one. We did have a wonderful first summer on our own. Rochester was not quite the same after we arrived or when we left.
We had our biggest aha and laugh when we met back up after we both got married~~Stan and Jan were carbon copies of one another! We couldn’t have planned that.
I loved reading her story. Quite the woman and you captured her essence and love of living. My many memories will keep her with me always.
Mary Beth was a great friend. She used her skills as a beautician several times for me in Rochester Mn. I stayed with her several times in Stacyville and met many family members. She followed a group of us from Rochester to Portland including my sister Jeanette. She met Stan and lived the rest of her life there. Jeanette and I moved back to Minnesota but were lucky to meet Mary Beth and Stan for lunch when they came back to visit family.
