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Clara Bessie Kucera Prochaska

25 Mar 1910 – 16 Jun 1951

Birth25 Mar 1910
Death16 Jun 1951
CemeterySaint Mary's Cemetery
Omaha , Douglas County , Nebraska , USA
Added byBarb Gerren on 07 Jun 2017
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Daughter of Matej (Mathew) (Mike) Kucera (1884-1952) and Anna Marie Rech (1888-1987). Married Edward J. Prochaska on June 28, 1928 in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie County, Iowa, USA. Two Children: LaVonna Joan Prochaska (1929-1951) and Donald Francis Prochaska (1933-2004) The Beatrice Daily Sun newspaper, Beatrice, Gage County, Nebraska, USA. Sunday, June 17, 1951, Page 1. NORTH BEND, Neb. UP—Four members of a fishing party died in a pre-dawn crash today when a fast-moving passenger train hit their car during a heavy fog. The victims, all of Omaha, were: Melvin Krepel, 23, apparently the driver of the car. His wife LaVonne about 21. Frank Krepel, 21, Melvin’s brother. Mrs. Clara Prochaska, 43, LaVonne’s mother. The Union Pacific’s eastbound Los Angeles limited, traveling about 75 miles an hour, hit the car at the private crossing about half a mile east of North Bend 40 miles west of Omaha. Fishing equipment, bodies and wreckage of the car were scattered over a 300 foot area. The car had turned off the main highway and was moving across the track on a crossing leading to the Platte river where the group apparently planned to fish. Acting Dodge County Attorney W.G. Line said he was told by Engineer C.W. Oshlo that the train crew realized the train had struck something, but after stopping, were unable to determine what it was because of the dense fog and darkness. Dodge County Sheriff Pelham McGee said that by the time he arrived an hour after the crash visibility was only about 100 feet. Oshlo, the engineer, told the county attorney that when the train stopped, he noted plates, a camp skillet and broken glass. The crew then went back along the right of way for about one half mile, but couldn’t see the car because of the darkness and heavy fog. After a delay of about an hour, the train crew proceeded into Fremont where officials were called. Line said that the bodies were thrown for some distance, one of them breaking down a barbed wire fence. Omaha World-Herald newspaper, Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska, USA. Sunday, June 17, 1951, page 2. Services Set Tuesday for Mrs. Prochaska Funeral services for Mrs. Clara Prochaska, 41, of 4411 South Twenty-sixth Street, will be conducted Tuesday from the John E Johnston Mortuary at 8:30 a.m. to St. Bridget’s Church at 9. Rosary at 8 p.m. Monday at the North Bend, Neb. Mrs. Prochaska was killed Saturday in a car-train crash near mortuary. Services for three other Omahans who died in the accident are set for 2:30 Tuesday at Dodge, Neb They are Mrs. And Mrs. Melvin Krepel, 4461 South Twenty sixth Street, and Frank Krepel, 4818 South Thirty-sixth Street. Mrs. Prochaska was the mother of Mrs. Melvin Krepel.

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