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Gladys Musil Rod

26 Nov 1930 – 23 May 2019

Birth26 Nov 1930
Death23 May 2019
CemeteryHoly Cross Memorial Park
El Campo , Wharton County , Texas , USA
Added byLJCL16 on 24 May 2019
FaGhttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/199434774

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Gladys Musil Rod peacefully departed this world on May 23, 2019, surrounded by her loving family. Gladys was born on November 26, 1930 to Ettie Slovacek and Frank J. Musil, Sr. in Stamford, Texas. Her father was an immigrant from Czechoslovakia. She graduated from Stamford High School in 1948, and attended the University of Texas at Austin where she majored in Home Economics. In college, she met the love of her life, Gilbert Frank Rod, while both were members of the Czech Club. The couple was married on June 8, 1950, and they were blessed with seven children. She often bragged that all of her children graduated from St. Philip Catholic School, and that one year she had a child in every grade there but the second. While her children were growing up, Gladys enjoyed sewing clothes for her small daughters, working the concession stand at Little League games, volunteering in PTC projects at St. Philip’s School, and cooking and caring for her large family. After her children were grown, she enjoyed her time with the Catholic Daughters of America, the Czech Heritage Society of Wharton County, and singing with the Czech Heritage Singers and the St. Philip’s Church Lazarus Choir. She also enjoyed a trip to Czechoslovakia with her sisters, writing her own family history stories, and mowing and picking up twigs and pecans in her yard in the heat of the day. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; her daughter, Carol; her son-in-law, Bobby Strnadel; her grandson, Jason Paugh; her brothers, Emory, Joseph, and Frank Musil; and her sisters, Ettie Musil Jesko and Ruby Musil. Gladys was very proud of her Czech heritage, the Stamford Hatchery (her family’s business), and her ability to recycle and reuse items before the trend became popular. Her children and grandchildren will always remember her Thanksgiving dressing, Jello salad, pecan bars, “squishy” sandwiches, fried oysters, fried okra, and fried biscuit donuts, her life lessons, her warm smile, and her quick wit and infectious laugh. Visitation will be from 5-7pm on Friday, May 24 at Triska Funeral Home. Services for Gladys Rod will be held on Saturday, May 25 at St. Philip Catholic Church, with a Rosary at 9:30am followed by the Funeral Mass at 10am. Interment will be at Holy Cross Memorial Park. Triska Funeral Home, El Campo, 979-543-3681

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