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Elsie Mikeska Kucera
18 Mar 1922 – 29 Aug 2005
| Birth | 18 Mar 1922 |
| Death | 29 Aug 2005 |
| Cemetery | West Brethren Cemetery West , McLennan County , Texas , USA |
| Added by | Kansas Proud on 25 Jan 2024 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49525245 |
Bio
Elsie (Mikeska) Kucera, 83, of West, Texas, passed away Monday evening, August 29, 2005, at West Rest Haven. Funeral services will be held 3 p.m., Thursday, at West Brethren Church, with the Rev. Curtis Holland officiating. Burial will follow at West Brethren Cemetery. The family will receive visitors from 6 to 8 p.m., Wednesday, at Aderhold Funeral Home, West. Elsie was born in Abbott, Texas, to the late Frank and Albina (Hejl) Mikeska. She attended schools in Abbott and graduated from Abbott High School in 1941, where she excelled in basketball and the team had won a state title. On April 21, 1947, she was united in marriage to Mitchell "Nick" Kucera in West. She was a homemaker and enjoyed working with her husband in the ginning business for the Penelope Coop as a secretary for over ten years until her retirement in 1972. Elsie was very proud of her children and grandchildren and loved saving every newspaper article that mentioned their names. She enjoyed playing bingo and chicken foot with her friends at West Rest Haven and before that at the Senior Citizen Center in West. She was a member of the West Brethren Church, S.P.J.S.T. Lodge No. 54 in West and the West Senior Ministry, where she loved to volunteer her time. She was preceded in death by her husband on May 12, 1972; brothers, Robert Mikeska and Ed Mikeska; and sisters, Marian Adamik and Geraldine Brezina. Survivors include sons, Frank Kucera and wife, Peggy and Ervin Kucera and wife, Janice, all of West, and Mitchell Kucera and wife, Janet, of Burleson; brother, George Mikeska and wife, Frankie Mae, of West; sisters, Ruby Kucera, of Ingleside, Elfie Srubar, of Abbott and Bessie Suvorik and husband, Daniel, of Brenham; grandchildren, Melissa Sulak and husband, Paul, of West, Pamela Darden and husband, Jay, of Austin, Frankie Kucera Jr. and wife, Lisa, Kimberly Kucera, Nick Kucera, Christopher Kucera, and Stefanie Kucera, all of West, Joel Kucera, Mark Kucera, Nicholas Kucera and Krysta Kucera, all of Burleson; great-grandchildren, Dawson and Emma Sulak, Noah, Owen and Drew Darden, Macey and Laney Kucera; and several nieces, nephews and other relatives. C
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- Eddie Ernest Mikeska 1912–1987
- Robert Roy Mikeska 1915–1992
- Geraldine Ann "Geri" Mikeska Brezina 1918–2005
- George Thomas Mikeska 1918–2013
- Elfie Mikeska Srubar 1919–2005
- Marian Mikeska Adamek 1928–1990
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