Marja-Leena Ollila-Kacere, 59 of Cedar Rapids, died peacefully in her home on Wednesday, October 21, 2015. A Celebration of Life Services will be at 11:00 a.m. Monday, October 26, 2015 at First Lutheran Church, located at 1000 3rd Avenue SE, 52403. Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Sunday, October 25, 2015 at Brosh Chapel in Cedar Rapids, located at 2121 Bowling Street SW, 52404. A private family inurnment will be at a later date. Leena was born April 27, 1956, in Oulu, Finland. She is survived by her father Imo and a sister Tiina. Later she moved to Helsinki where we met. She worked as a supervisor of 26 kitchen employees at a veterans hospital. The doctors prescribed, and Leena filled, the dietary needs of the patients. She loved design and food preparation and the bygone standards of a table setting. She learned housekeeping from the best teachers. In school they had to boil sheets in a huge cast iron cauldron which they stirred with a paddle. Her mother ironed the household bedding and sheets. There was never any cross-contamination in her kitchen. Towels were color-coded for floors, hands, countertops, drying dishes, and food preparation. Her employees loved her because they knew what to expect. "Don't let Leena see you doing that" they would correct a fellow worker. In 1996, she met Kim Kacere at a folk dance class and were married in 2000. She gave up everything to start a new life in the USA. So we were devoted to each other.