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Joseph Celestin "Joe" Sulak
5 Mar 1925 – 14 Nov 2006
| Birth | 5 Mar 1925 |
| Death | 14 Nov 2006 |
| Cemetery | Saint Marys Catholic Cemetery West , McLennan County , Texas , USA |
| Added by | Betty Fajkus Marek on 28 May 2016 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/16674488 |
Bio
Joseph "Joe" Celestin Sulak, 81, of West, passed away Tuesday afternoon, November 14, 2006, at Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center in Waco. Graveside services will be held 1:30 p.m. Friday at St. Mary's Cemetery, with the Rev. Melvin Dornak officiating. Military Graveside Rites will follow, conducted by V.F.W. Post No. 4819 of West. The family will receive visitors from 6 to 8 p.m., Thursday at the funeral home. Joe was born in Aquilla, Texas, to the late John Timothy and Mary Henrietta (Zvesper) Sulak. He attended Alligator School in West. He served in the United States Army during World War II. Joe was captured and remained a prisoner of war for four months while in Germany. When the war was over, he was released and received a Purple Heart for his bravery. On April 21, 1981, he was united in marriage with Dorothy Griego in West. He worked as a plumber and electrician for Ray's Electric and Plumbing in West for over 35 years until his retirement in 2000. Joe loved to play bingo, dominoes, deer hunt, fish and especially loved dancing and the Czech music. He was a member of V.F.W. Post No. 4819 of West, The Purple Heart, American Legion, Prisoner of War Veterans Chapter 1 in Waco, and St. Mary's Catholic Church of the Assumption in West. He was preceded in death by a grandson, Frankie Caughenbaugh, Jr.; brothers, John Sulak and Wesley Sulak; sisters, Mary Girard and Agnes Adamson; and nephew, Robert Sulak. Survivors include his wife, Dorothy, of Waco; sons, Raymond "Jake" Sulak and Randy Sulak, both of West; daughters, Barbara Mynar and her husband, Larry, of Abbott, Doris Caughenbaugh and her husband, Frankie, of Chalk Bluff, and Bernice Sawyer and her husband, Steve, of West; step-sons, Michael Perez and Carlos Perez, of Waco; step-daughters: Angie Hinojosa, of Rockport, Olga Campos, of Waco, Virginia Zdinine, of Chicago, Ill, Stella Perez and Lori Ann Rodriquez, of Waco, and Henrietta Clark, of Robins, NC; 13 grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; 46 step-grandchildren; 34 step-great-grandchildren; sisters: Anna Chabicek, of San Antonio, Henrietta Barton and Leona Hanzlicek, both of West, and Frances Zeptner, of Burleson; and several nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends. Waco Tribune-Herald: 11/16/2006...A1
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- Mary Lillian Sulak Girard 1921–1963
- Anna Josephine Sulak Chabisek 1922–2011
- John Paul Sulak 1924–2002
- Josephine Sulak 1926–1933
- Wesley Rudolph Sulak 1929–2006
- Agnes Elizabeth Sulak Adamson 1931–1984
- Henrietta Antonia Sulak Barton 1933–2007
- Lucy Suzan Sulak 1934–1935
- Frances Rosa Sulak Webb 1938–2023
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