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Alice Kraus Neihart
10 Nov 1906 – 23 May 1965
| Birth | 10 Nov 1906 |
| Death | 23 May 1965 |
| Cemetery | Riverside Cemetery Crete , Saline County , Nebraska , USA |
| Added by | Jenny Watton on 15 Sep 2013 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/117088490 |
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KRAUS-NEIHART MARRIAGE ANNOUNCEMENT Miss Alice Kraus, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Anton Kraus, and Ralph Neihart, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Neihart, both of Crete, were married Saturday, April 2, 1927, in Omaha. Miss Kraus has been working at the Smith Laundry. Mr. Neihart is a plasterer. The young couple will make their home in Crete. Source: The Crete News, Thursday, April 7, 1927 ============================== Although my father's parents were both of Czechoslovakian descent, I can't say I remember any reference to my ethnicity from them. They were born in Nebraska; their parents in the old country. I barely knew my grandfather; he died when I was six years of age. My grandmother remained a widow until her death. She never spoke Czech or cooked/baked the traditional foods. I knew two of her sisters, my great aunts—neither referenced anything Czech. My family would drive to Brainard, Nebraska, on Memorial Day to visit family and decorate graves. Again, there was never anything other than English spoken, no Czech comfort foods or music that could have defined my background. This is where my life took a fortuitous turn. My parents moved to Crete, Nebraska, when I was nine months old. Early on, my neighbor, Alice Kraus Neihart, became a second mother to me. She had three sons, all of whom entered the military. Alice and her husband took me everywhere with them. I was surrounded by Czech people who played the music, entertained, and reveled in their culture. Neihart's front door opened into their kitchen, where the red plastic Coca Cola radio played polkas; the aroma of liver dumpling soup, kolaches, crescents, and plum and peach dumplings with fruity, buttery sauce, wafted through the air on any given day. I marveled at Alice making her own soup noodles and dough, topping her rolls with egg and/or butter (using a homemade feather brush) before baking; her cookie sheets were an encrusted "black" from years of use. Even as I grew to high school age, Alice would call me when she was cooking my favorites and invite me to dine with them. I still remember her phone number—7370. I called it so many times over those years. She died at a young age, in May of my senior year of high school. I have never forgotten her and how she and her extended family instilled their Czech customs/culture in me. With love and gratitude, Cheryl Novak Tesar Contributor: Cheryl Tesar (48454313)
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- Joseph Jay Kraus 1899–1971
- Agnes M. Kraus Prochaska 1902–1985
- Edward Kraus 1905–1905
- Mary M Kraus Smetter Patton 1910–2006
Children
- Kenneth Eugene Neihart 1928–2022 FaG
- Donald Dean Neihart 1930–2019 FaG
- Harold Gene Neihart 1932–2023 FaG
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