Regina (Reggie) was born on August 19, 1910 near East Chain, Minnesota, to Mary and Joseph Mikolai, the fifth of 11 children. She attended East Chain school. She worked at various jobs in Minnesota, Iowa and Colorado. She later lived in Blue Earth, MN until her mother died in 1970 when she moved to Minneapolis, where she lived until three years ago. She is survived by a brother and sister-in-law, Eugene and Lee, (Blue Earth), and three sisters, Anne Benjamin (New Hope), Josephine Rosol (Fairmont), and Evelyn (Minneapolis), 5 nieces and 2 nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, sisters and brothers: Eulogius, Roman, Genevieve, Daniel, Julia, and Loretta; and 1 nephew: Mitchell Mikolai.