Sunday’s Obituary: Alice Heubel Sheldon Novakowski

I am searching the Novakowski family for a friend. Last week’s Sunday Obituary featured Alice’s husband, Joseph Novakowski. Today, Alice is featured.

Her notice was on GoErie.com. It reads:

A Devoted caregiver to her family and patients. Alice A. Heubel Sheldon Novakowski, age 75 of Millcreek Twp., died Monday, January 10, 2005 at her residence surrounded by her beloved family. She was born July 26, 1929 in Erie, daughter of the late John Heubel and Alice Richards Heubel Sheldon.

Mrs. Novakowski was employed by the Millcreek Community Hospital as a licensed practical nurse for 29 years. She retired from there and the career she loved in 1992. She was a member of St. Julia Roman Catholic Church. Beyond filling her role of a nurse with love, compassion and a sense of duty, the passion of her life was being a devoted caregiver to her beloved family with whom she lived for and enjoyed spending her time with.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her step-father, Bill Sheldon; four sisters; three brothers; two grandsons: Steven and Patrick Novakowski and one great grandson: Fred Vega. Survivors include her beloved husband, Joseph S. Novakowski; seven children: Joseph Novakowski and his wife Eva of Elko, Nev. Alice Mando and her husband Mel, Steven Novakowski, Kurt Novakowski and his wife Gail and Marie Darcie McDaniel and her husband Chuck all of Erie, Frank Novakowski and his wife Barb of Wattsburg and Felicia Fried and her husband Harry of Bellefontaine, Ohio; 20 grandchildren; 11 great grandchildren; and three brothers: John and Kurt Heubel and Charles Sheldon and his wife Carol all of Erie. Friends may call at the Dusckas Funeral Home, Inc., West, 536 West Tenth Street, an Independent Care Group affiliate, on Wednesday from 7 to 9 p.m. and are invited to attend the funeral service there on Thursday at 10 a.m. Interment Wintergreen Gorge Cemetery. To send condolences, visit www.icgerie.com

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