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Mary Elizabeth Nekoliczak Kusek
10 Feb 1885 – 4 May 1940
| Birth | 10 Feb 1885 |
| Death | 4 May 1940 |
| Cemetery | Saint Bonaventure Cemetery Columbus , Platte County , Nebraska , USA |
| Added by | Shirley (Bruhn) Martys on 10 Oct 2008 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13273404 |
Bio
Daughter of Michael & Sophia (Szawica) Nikolajczek/Nekoliczak. Married to Thomas Kusek on 11-3-1903 Obituary After years of illness, Mrs. Thos. Kusek succumbed Saturday night at her home at Spalding.. She had been bedfast the past eighteen months and was ill almost continuously since 1936. In January of that year she underwent an operation which brought an improvement in her health until the fall of 1937. From January 1 she was seriously ill at St. Mary's hospital at Columbus, undergoing another operation in May, 1938. Later she was taken to St. Joseph's hospital in Omaha. Through all her suffering and illness she remained joyful and uncomplaining. . . She was a devout member of the Catholic church and a member of St. Ann's Society. Requiem Mass was at St. Michael's at Spalding on Wednesday Mary 8 at nine o'clock with Msgr. B. F. Galvin officiating. The funeral cortege left the church for Columbus and burial was made in the St. Bonaventure's cemetery at 1:10 p.m. . . Mary Elizabeth Nekoliczak was born February 10, 1885, at Ewing, Nebraska and died May 4, 1940. At the age of ten she moved to Columbus with her parents and attended St. Bonaventure's parochial school, moving back to Ewing upon the death of her father (1896). When she was sixteen years of age, she came to Spalding with her mother, Mrs. Sophia Haun, and her step-father, the late Fred Haun. On Nov. 3, 1903, she was united in marriage to Thomas Kusek of Omaha. That month Mr. and Mrs. Kusek moved to Omaha, and they lived there until March 1, 1906, when they returned to Spalding. She made her home at Spalding until her death. She is survived by her eight children: five sons, Hubert, Michael and Bernard at Spalding; Louis. . . Joseph. . .; three daughters, Miss Helen, a rural school teacher at Osceola, and Dorothy and Mary Ann, at home. She is also survived by her husband, her mother, Mrs. Sophia Haun of Columbus and the following sisters and brothers: Mrs. Louis Tryba, Duncan, Nebraska, Henry Nekoliczak, Greeley; a half-brother, Michael Haun of San Francisco; two step-sisters, Mrs. John Schmerts of Spalding and Mrs. George Zuroski of Richmond, Ill., and two step-brothers, Joe Haun, Jr. of Spalding and Henry Haun of Harrisburg, Nebr. She was preceded in death by her father, Michael Nekolicaak; two sisters, Kathryn and Mrs. Chas. Kula; two brothers, Michael, Jr. and John. . .
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Siblings
- Anna Mikolajczyk Kula 1881–1931
- Henry Joseph Nekoliczak 1883–1951
- Franceska Anna "Frances" Mikolajczyk Tryba 1887–1973
- John Anthony Nekoliczak 1889–1924
- Kathryn Nekoliczyk 1894–1895
- Michael Nikoleick 1896–1898
- Michael Leo Haun 1901–1972
Children
- Thomas Herbert Kusek 1905–1958
- Louis Henry Kusek 1911–1955
- Joseph Francis Kusek 1914–1987
- Helen Barbara Kusek Oseka 1916–1986
- Dorothy Frances Kusek Boyce 1919–2013
- Michael John "Mike" Kusek 1921–2012
- Mary Ann Kusek Buelt 1923–1994
- Bernard Thomas Kusek 1927–1993
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