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Frances Louise Absalon Stepanek

8 Mar 1873 – 15 Jun 1958

Birth8 Mar 1873
Death15 Jun 1958
CemeteryOrd Cemetery
Ord , Valley County , Nebraska , USA
Added byStarlight on 25 May 2015
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Published in the Ord Quiz, Ord, Nebraska, Thursday, June 19, 1958, Page 8, Column 4 Mrs. Stepanek Rites Here Thursday Morn Mrs. Frances Stepanek, 85, died quietly Sunday after a lingering illness. She had been bedfast for several years and was a patient in the Tuma nursing home in Ord. Services will be held at nine o'clock Thursday morning from Our Lady of Perpetual Help church with burial in the Ord cemetery. The Rosary will be held Wednesday evening at the Hastings-Pearson chapel. Her son, Alvin Mazac, Salem, Oregon was expected to arrive in Ord Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Stepanek was the aunt of F.J.L. Benda of Ord, and also has other relatives in the Ord area. At one time she and her first husband conducted a meat market in Ord and later she and her second husband, the late Anton Stepanek, had a store and meat market in Taylor. Published in the Ord Quiz, Ord, Nebraska, Thursday, June 26, 1958, Page 3, Column 3 Mrs. Stepanek Rites Held Here Thursday Funeral services were held Thursday morning from Our Lady of Perpetual Help for Francis Stepanek. Fr. Stanley Gorak officiated. Rosary was said on Wednesday evening at the Hastings-Pearson chapel. Burial was held in the Ord cemetery. Frances Stepanek was born March 8, 1873 to Anton and Frances Absalon at Mala' Senice U. Olomoue, Czechoslavakia, and died at the Hilda Tuma Nursing home on June 15. She had lived there for the past years and for two weeks prior to her death had been seriously ill. Frances came to the United States in 1906 and to Ord from Omaha in 1908. She was married to Louis Mazac who operated a meat market on the east side of the square. Mr. Mazac died in 1935, and in 1936 Frances married Anton Stepanek. After the marriage she and her husband moved to Taylor where they operated a restaurant and store. She was a member of the ZCBJ Lodge and the Ord Catholic Church. She was preceded in death by her husband and two brothers, and is survived by a son, Albin of Salem, Ore., a brother, Joe Absalon of Ord, four grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.

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