Kowalski lived in Pompton Plains and Franklin Lakes before moving to Boonton Township in 2011.
Kowalksi was a school teacher with the Paterson School System and a parishioner of Most Blessed Sacrament R.C. Church in Franklin Lakes.
She was predeceased by her husband, Albert Kowalski in 2005, and survived by daughter, Lynn Zawonski (Mitch), of Pompton Plains; grandchildren, Douglas Reinhardt (Kathy), of California, Scott Reinhardt (Becky), of New York, and Alison Reinhardt, of California; and great-grandson, Chase Reinhardt.
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