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Johana Paulit Macha
26 Jul 1870 – 7 Mar 1947
| Birth | 26 Jul 1870 |
| Death | 7 Mar 1947 |
| Cemetery | Bomarton Catholic Cemetery Bomarton , Baylor County , Texas , USA |
| Added by | Searchers of our Past on 09 Oct 2012 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/98567548 |
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daughter of Valentine Paulit Services for Mrs. Johana Macha were held at the Catholic Church in Bomarton. Pallbearers were her grandsons with one exception, Johnny Orsak. They were - Edmund and Felix Macha, Willie Bednarz, George Macha, George Pribyla and Johnny Orsak. Mrs. Macha was born in Moravska Ostrava, Czechoslavakia in 1870. She came to America in 1881 at the age of 11 years settling first in Fayette County, Texas. She worked at different things and for different people and it was three years before she finally got her passage across the ocean paid for. In 1896, she married Joseph Macha at Fayette County, Texas. His wife had died in 1894 or 1895, leaving four small children. Mrs. Macha took care of these children and loved them as if they had been her very own. Later she and her husband had two children, one of them died in infancy. The other child, Jerome Macha, who with his wife and two children, Martha and Helen lived with his mother, four miles south of Bomarton. Of the four other children, L.J. Masha preceded her in death, but his widow still livesi n the area. The others are Victor and Hynek Macha and Mrs. Raymond Pribyla. Mrs. Macha is the only survivor of her own family. There were four brothers and four sisters until the persecution of World War II causing the death of all of them. Mrs. Macha was a devout Christian, always tried to look after the wants of others, rather than her own comfort, in all of her suffering she was patient and did not complain. She has lived long, faithfully and well and has left precious memories to the loved ones who will always hold her in loving remembrance.
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