Frances Jean Podhora 

A funeral will be at 1 p.m. Friday, May 11, 2001, in Lincoln Memorial 
Funeral Home for Frances Jean Podhora, who died May 7 at age 80. Mrs. 
Podhora was born Frances Pozin on Oct. 30, 1920, in Kansas City, Mo. 
She graduated from Research Hospital School of Nursing and was a U.S. 
Navy nurse during World War II. In 1948, she moved to Portland. She was 
a self-employed registered nurse-anesthetist for about 10 years and a 
nurse-anesthetist for Kaiser Permanente for about 18 years, retiring in 
1982. She was a charter member of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association 
and president of the Oregon Association of Nurse Anesthetists. In 1943, 
she married Fredric Podhora; he died in 1981. 

Survivors include her son, Fredric W. Jr.; daughters, Christine L. Gass and 
Rebecca A. Podhora; brothers, John Pozin, Frank Pozin, Richard Pozin 
and David Pozin; seven grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. Her 
son Paul A. died in 1998. 

Interment in Willamette National Cemetery. Remembrances to American 
Heart Association. 

May 10, 2001
Portland Oregonian