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Anthony J "Tony" Pokorny

2 Oct 1909 – 13 Jun 2000

Birth	2 Oct 1909
Death	13 Jun 2000
Cemetery	Aransas Memorial Park Rockport , Aransas County , Texas , USA
Added by	Nona Forrest on 24 Jan 2014
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/93580435

Bio

Topeka Capital-Journal: ROCKPORT, Texas--Anthony J. "Tony" Pokorny, 90, Rockport, died Tuesday, June 13, 2000, in Rockport. Mr. Pokorny farmed in Nebraska and Iowa. He was a well-known breeder of spotted Poland China pigs and had won several state championships. He later became a salesman and a social worker. He was born Oct. 2, 1909, in Dwight, Neb., the son of Anton and Antonia Pokorny. He moved to Rockport in 1977. Mr. Pokorny was a member of Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Rockport, and a fourth-degree member of the Knights of Columbus councils in Topeka, Kan. and Rockport. He married Lucille Berberich on May 11, 1932. She survives. Other survivors include two sons, Dwight Pokorny,Topeka and Chris Pokorny, Las Vegas; five daughters: Marcella Muller, San Antonio, Texas, Angela Kerin, Montesano, Wash., Rosalie Negus, Topeka, Shirley Cohn, Corrales, N.M. and Frances Chupalio, Milford Pa.; five brothers, Edward, Andrew, Albert, George and Bill; a sister, Antonia Ratkovec; 17 grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren. Funeral Mass will be at 10 a. m. Friday at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Rockport. Burial will be in the Aransas Memorial Park Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to Sacred Heart School, 111 N. Church St., Rockport, Texas 78382. Charlie Marshall Funeral Home in Rockport is in charge of arrangements.

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Family

Parents

• Anton Vendelin Pokorny 1876–1956
• Antonia Divis Pokorny 1884–1967

Spouse

• Lucille Mary Berberich Pokorny 1913–2001 FaG

Siblings

• Verna C Pokorny Fujan 1902–1989
• Mary Margaret Pokorny Stanislav 1903–1999
• Antonia M. Pokorny Ratkovec 1905–2004
• James Herbert Pokorny 1906–1932
• William J. Pokorny 1911–2008
• Helen Frances Pokorny Maly 1913–1985
• George Daniel Pokorny 1915–2006
• Blanche Pokorny 1916–1930
• Albert Ivan Pokorny 1917–2001
• Andrew Louis Pokorny 1922–2008
• Edward Stephen Pokorny 1925–2009

Children

• Rosalie Ann Pokorny Negus 1935–2017 FaG
• Dwight Anthony Pokorny 1944–2010 FaG

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