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If you went somewhere with Joseph and Kye-Shin Kotarski, you were likely to come across someone they knew.

Joe knew hundreds of people from bowling and his job, daughter Paula Jones said, and Kye-Shin, known as Shina, was an active member of Indianapolis’ Korean community, where she helped with anything and everything.

The couple was married 55 years before dying four days apart of the novel coronavirus.

Joe was 77 when he died on May 2, Shina 81 on May 6. I’m A Proud Mother in Law of A Freaking Awesome Welder Shirt

Kye-Shin Kang was from Jinju, South Korea, where she was a teacher. To teach, she had to cross a border guarded by the U.S. Army, including a young military policeman named Joseph Kotarski.

“So that’s how they met,” said Jones, who is 48 and lives in Fishers. They married in Korea while Joe was still in the service and married again back in the U.S., where Shina immigrated to be with Joe in 1964.

But Korea never truly left her.

She would go back for about a month each year, Jones said, until she grew older and it became more difficult to deal with jet lag. When stateside, she spent much of her time contributing to the Korean community in Indianapolis.

Jones said her mother, a member of the Korean Catholic Church on the east side, would help with legal questions, translating — anything she could for anyone who needed it.

Jones was one of the couple’s three children. Their son, Al Kotarski, 54, lives in New Palestine, and their oldest daughter, Ruth Abraham, 52, lives in Phoenix. Abraham said her mother’s strong fluency in English made her a great person to lend a hand.

“I read some of the love letters they wrote back and forth,” Abraham said, “Her English was very good.”

The community was also a source of entertainment for the couple, going to picnics and meeting with friends, though Jones said they also had their own hobbies. Shina would go to the golf course every chance she had while Joe spent many hours at the bowling alley.

Joe and Shina would sometimes golf together, Jones said, “but my mom was way more competitive than my dad, so it wasn’t too fun for him.”

They spent time with their four grandkids, as well. Shina enjoyed going to watch her grandson golf with the New Palestine High School team, and Joe, who worked nights, made sure to be available to help his grandkids by day.

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