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Antonie "Agnes" Mashek Smajstrla

28 Mar 1874 – 23 Jun 1955

Birth28 Mar 1874
Death23 Jun 1955
CemeterySaint Marys Catholic Cemetery
West , McLennan County , Texas , USA
Added byTheresa Cernosek on 26 Dec 2021
FaGhttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/44519180

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Mrs. Smajstrla, Pioneer of West,Passes Away Thurs. Mrs. C. W. Smajstrla passed away at her home Thursday at 8:50 p.m. She was 81 and had lived here for the past 78 years. Funeral services were held at 9 a.m. Saturday at the Church of the Assumption. Burial was in St. Mary’s Cemetery. Mrs. Smajstrla was born the fourth child to Vaclav and Rosie Soukup Mashek in the Leslie Community near Brenham March 28, 1874. The family moved to West when she was three, and one of the first three Czech families to settle here. “Granny” Smajstrla often told of how she walked miles from West to school at Tours through waist-high grass. During early childhood she often made the two-day trip to Waco with her family crossing the Brazos River where the water was low; then later across the toll bridge in a horse-drawn buggy. She was married to Chas. W. Smajstrla a West farmer and businessman. He died in 1927. They had four sons and four daughters. The oldest daughter died at infancy. Mrs. Smajstrla owned the West Drug Store for 20 years before selling her interest three years ago. She was a charter member of West Catholic Daughters of America, KJZT Society, Altar Society and Rosary Society of the Church of the Assumption. The West News – Friday, July 1, 1955

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