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Frank James Vanek

9 Nov 1888 – 15 Nov 1973

Birth9 Nov 1888
Death15 Nov 1973
CemeteryBohemian National Cemetery
Prague , Saunders County , Nebraska , USA
Added byJennifer Kuncl on 16 Jul 2019
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Fremont Tribune (Fremont, Nebraska) 16 Nov 1973, Fri Page 2 Prague - Services for Frank J. Vanek , 85, will be 2 p.m. Sunday at Presbyterian Church. The Rev. Donald Proett will officiate. Vanek died Thursday at a North Bend nursing home. He was born Nov. 9, 1888, at Prague and lived in the area all his life. He married Anna Mach Jan. 3, 1911, at Prague. Survivors include his widow; daughters, Mrs. Albina Lanc, Brainard; Mrs. John (Martha) Navarkal, Bellwood; and Mrs. John (Adeline) Hines, Morse Bluff; sons, Stanley, Prague; 11 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren; brothers, John and Adolph, Prague; Joseph, Wahoo; and William, Schuyler; and sisters, Mrs. Rudolph (Mary) Fujan, Prague; Mrs. Kathryn Sedlacek, Schuyler; Mrs. Joseph (Helen) Hines, Morse Bluff; and Mrs. Anton (Ethel) Rezac and Emily Vanek, both of Wahoo. Burial will be in National Cemetery. Kucera Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. FRANK J. VANEK. Frank J. Vanek, who has gained a place among the successful farmers of Saunders county, owns one hundred and forty acres of land on section 2, Elk precinct. His birth occurred in that precinct on the 9th of November, 1888, and he is a son of John and Katherine (Krodank) Vanek. The father was born in Bohemia on the 24th of June, 1866, of the marriage of Martin and Mary (Knedlik) Vanek, both of whom are still living at an advanced age and make their home with their son Joseph. John Vanek was brought by his parents to the United States in 1869 and the family home was maintained successively in Will county, Illinois, and in Elk precinct, Saunders county, Nebraska. He assisted his father on the home farm in that precinct until the spring of 1889, when he began farming for himself on an eighty acre tract on section 2. He subsequently purchased one hundred and twenty acres more, paying therefor four dollars an acre. He made excellent improvements upon the place and for many years actively engaged in agricultural pursuits but has now turned the operation of the farm over to his sons. He is a democrat and fraternally is associated with the Catholic Workmen's lodge, which indicates his membership in the Catholic church. To him and his wife have been born twelve children, of whom our subject is the eldest. Frank J. Vanek was reared at home and in the acquirement of an education, attended the district schools. As soon as old enough he began helping his father with the farm work and as the years passed became familiar with practical methods of agriculture. In March, 1912, he began his independent career, taking up his residence on an excellent farm of one hundred and forty acres on section 2, Elk precinct. He has since operated that place, and has been very successful indeed. He is up-to-date in all of his methods, believes firmly in crop rotation, in the scientific study of the land and experimentation to determine what kind of grain or what strain of any particular grain grows best on certain parts of his farm. He keeps in touch with the findings of scientists engaged in investigating agricultural problems and this progressive spirit has been an important factor in making him unusually efficient as a farmer. In 1914 he raised fourteen hundred and thirty-one bushels of corn from forty-one acres of land and in addition he fed sixteen hogs and five horses for about five months. On the 31st of January, 1911, Mr. Vanek was united in marriage to Miss Anna Mach, a daughter of Joseph A. Mach, Sr., of Prague. The father was born in Bohemia but in 1875 removed with his family to the United States and settled on eighty acres of land in Saunders county, Nebraska, which he homesteaded. Later he purchased an additional eighty acres and for a number of years engaged in the operation of his farm but since 1911 has lived retired. Mr. and Mrs. Vanek have a son, Stanley. Mr. Vanek is a democrat but has never desired to hold public office. He does not belong to any lodges, preferring to spend his leisure time at home. He has spared neither thought nor energy in the improvement and development of his farm and although a young man has gained a measure of prosperity that many of his seniors might envy. He is also insured in the Bankers Life of Des Moines for four thousand dollars.

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TOGETHER FOREVER PARENTS OF STANLEY, ALBINA, MARTHA, ADELINE

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