The memorial service for Ilse Koerner will be at 11:00AM, Wednesday, March 8, 2017 in River Park Chapel at Macken Funeral Home with Rev. Thomas Loomis officiating. Visitation will be held one hour prior to the service at the funeral home.

Ilse Koerner, 67, of Rochester, died on Wednesday, February 22, 2017 at Methodist Hospital in Rochester after a short battle with cancer. She was born February 15, 1950 in Willich, Germany to Werner and Gertrud Koerner.

After graduating high school in Germany, Ilse moved to the United Sates in 1970. Ilse lived most of her life in Rochester, and she worked as an administrative assistant at MnDot for 30 years. Ilse enjoyed her job and coworkers and continued working until two weeks before her death. Ilse was a volunteer at Ronald McDonald House. She dearly loved her two grandsons and was a doting grandmother.

Survivors include her son, Nicholas (Kari) Koerner of Woodbury, MN; her twin grandsons, Lucas and Elias; and her mother, Gertrud Koerner of Willich, Germany. She was preceded in death by her father, Werner Koerner.

The family prefers memorials to the Ronald McDonald House.