June 21, 1949 – May 12, 2021
Erayna “Cookie” Marie Kostrzab Brown cast off the shackles of this world on May 12, 2021, in Billings, Mont., after an arduous, two-and-a-half month battle with COVID pneumonia. She gets to be reunited with her parents, Bernard P. and Allegra E. (Nordstrom) Kostrzab, brother Martin L. Kostrzab, and sister Dianne A. Kostrzab.
Born June 21, 1949, in Duluth, Minn., she was welcomed by her twin brothers Ronald and Martin, and was followed by Dianne, Lynn, Carla (Iverson) and Chester Kostrzab. She grew up in Lakewood, Minn., and attended Duluth’s Central High School, graduating with the class of 1967. She married James M. Brown June 8, 1968, at North Shore Baptist Church. They made homes in Fort Rucker, Ala., Eugene and Brownsville, Ore., Lakewood, Minn., Belfry and Livingston, Mont., Alliance, Neb., Greybull, Wyo., and finally, in Manderson, Wyo.
