Charlotte Pecinovsky, 99

Oct. 14, 1919 —

Feb. 6, 2019

 

Protivin - Charlotte Pecinovsky, age 99, of Protivin, Iowa passed away on Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019, at Evans Memorial Home in Cresco, Iowa.

Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2019, at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Protivin, with Father Aaron Junge. Burial will be in Holy Trinity Catholic Cemetery. Visitation will be from 10-11 a.m. on Wednesday at the church.

Charlotte (Tichy/Still) Pecinovsky was born on Oct. 14, 1919 in Cresco to John and Hilda (Olson) Tichy/Still. She attended country school and one year of high school, receiving her GED certificate. She attended driver’s training school to obtain her driver’s license to enable her to attend beauty school in Decorah, Iowa, where she received her beauty school license.

On June 25, 1946, Charlotte married Edward F. Pecinovsky at Holy Trinity Church in Protivin. She worked at the lunch counter at Woolworth Five and Dime in Cedar Rapids, Iowa for two years, while her husband attended barber school. 

They then moved back to Protivin, where he opened a barber shop, and Charlotte and Eleanor Houdek worked at the Protivin school lunch program until Charlotte started beauty school in Decorah. With her certificate and license in hand, around 1968, Charlotte and Edward combined the barbershop into a barber and beauty shop. She worked there until she sold it around 1994. 

Charlotte was a member of the Rosary Society, Ladies Aide, American Legion Auxiliary for 60-plus years, was chairman of the Junior Auxiliary and belonged to the Senior Citizen Card Club. Once a month she would take the bus to the casino and play Bingo along with carpooling with the girls to local Bingo games. In addition to Bingo, she was a lifelong Iowa Hawkeyes fan and a die-hard Chicago Cubs fan. She was able to see the Cubs play twice in Chicago and once in Milwaukee. She also got to see the Chicago Cubs play the Iowa Cubs in Des Moines. 

Charlotte is survived by a daughter, Doris Pecinovsky, and many nieces and nephews. 

She was preceded in death by her parents, John and Hilda (Olson) Still; her husband, Edward F. Pecinovsky on March 27, 1988; her father and mother-in-law, Frank and Anna (Martinek) Pecinovsky; brother, Robert “Bob” Still; sister-in-law, Ruby Still; sister, Marjorie (Still) and George Humpal; and her husband’s siblings and spouses, Edward and Caroline (Pecinovsky) Hovorka, Louis and Margaret (Kroll) Pecinovsky, Bill and Evelyn (Pecinovsky) Pecinovsky, Arnold and Bess (Pecinovsky) Cornwall and Ben and Ruth (Goetz) Pecinovsky.

Online condolences may be left at www.Hindthudekfuneralhomes.com.