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Frances Agnes Bacak

5 Sep 1929 – 6 May 1930 (aged 8 months)

Birth	5 Sep 1929
Death	6 May 1930 (aged 8 months)
Cemetery	Saint Marys Catholic Cemetery West , McLennan County , Texas , USA
Added by	Michael K Goldsmith on 14 Oct 2016
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/44516462

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Funeral For Storm Victims The funeral and interment of Mrs. Anna Bacak, aged 70 years, and the six-months old granddaughter, Agnes Bacak, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ignaz Bacak, victims of the cyclone Tuesday afternoon, May 6, was held at the Catholic church Thursday morning, May 8, at 9 o'clock, Rev. Father Pelnar officiating. Interment was at the Catholic cemetery. The West News, West, Texas, Volume 40, No. 49, Edition 1, Friday, May 9, 1930, page 1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tornado Strikes West Community Tuesday, Three Killed, Many Injured, Homes, Crops and Livestock Destroyed West citizens looked into the southwest Tuesday afternoon to watch emerging from an omnious expanse of black, a strange yellowish cloud that shook loose from the black volume and arose like a great shaggy animal in the act of stalking its prey. Up quickly from the crouching position against the black, the weird creature of the southwest began moving. There sounded a mighty roar--there were two where at first had appeared only one great shaggy yellow funnel shaped monster, and over the town, one swerving northeast and the other southeast, the two shot, merging forces again to swoop down here and there in the quiet and peaceful communities just east of West. With the breaking of the black cloud that hung for a short time in the southwest, the whole town and community was enveloped with the loosened blackness. With a sharp peal of thunder and flash of lightening that came in advance of the cloud in the southwest, all electric lights in West had gone off. Rain that had been coming in a torrential downpour during the earlier part of the day from the east, suddenly changed and came in blinding sheets from the southwest. The rain was as a solid block hurled broadside. The streets became as sheets of water, and then for a moment there was a lull, as if to stand aside for the giant monster whose very breath dealt death and destruction. For a second there was heard a roar over the back of the West News building which faces Oak Avenue. At the same time in the southeast, a piece of roofing was snatched from a building at the Brazos Valley Cotton Mill, and joining forces again, the strange yellow cloud now intact, two in one, rolled and lurched onward, snatching up a roof and then a whole dwelling house, snuffing out a life and then another life. Tossing a sleeping baby to death as it lay wrapped in its tiny crib. Watching there by the sleeping baby, the grandmother was snatched from her post of loving care and hurled into the wreck-filled open, her body buried beneath the torn and twisted structure of the scattered home. ....The Ignaz Bacak home three miles east of West is no more. The timbers and materials of the commodious and comfortable home are ripped and torn asunder and scattered never to be found. Grandmother Bacak and six-months-old baby Bacak sleep beneath new made mounds in a quiet cemetery, victims of the death and destruction dealing force of the monster wind.... The West News, West, Texas, Volume 40, No. 49, Edition 1, Friday, May 9, 1930, page 8 Contributor: Betty Fajkus Marek (48445083)

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