WINONA, Minn. – Erika (Kalitta) Gilbertson, , 93, of Winona, a crusader for women’s righst in the 1960s, died at home. She continued her feminist activism the rest of her life. She was born in Germany but left the partitioned east section as a political refugee. She became an associate member of the American Society of Interior Designers. Due to health, however, she quit full-time work and turned to designing and sewing most of her own clothes and doing oil and watercolor paintings and needlework designs.
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1930-2023