The Belleville Telescope, June 20, 1963
John Paul Panek, son of Paul and Agnes Panek was born in Nova Vesta Czechoslovakia, August 24, 1883, and passed away at the Fairbury, Neb., Clinic June 13, 1963, at the age of 79 years, nine months and 19 days.
He received his education in the schools of his native village, and also received apprenticeship there in the blacksmith trade.
In the year 1907 he came to this country to the city of Chicago, Ill., where he engaged in various kinds of work. In 1909 he came to Kansas where he took up farm work as a hired hand for various farmers of this community. After about two years he engaged as an independent farmer at which occupation he continued until 1920, when he went into partnership as a blacksmith. At this, his beloved trade, he continued for about 36 years. He retired from this occupation in 1956.
On May 24, 1911, he was united in marriage to Minnie Brandt of the Cuba community, this union was blest with the birth of three sons and two daughters. The little family first lived on a farm in Washington County, until Mr. Panek assumed the work of blacksmith in Cuba, where he spent the rest of his life.
He is preceded in death by his wife, Minnie, both of his parents, five brothers, one sister and one infant son.
Surviving and mourning his departure are his two daughters, Helen and her husband Vernon Lesovsky of Narka, Kan.; Elsie and her husband Emmet Fuqua of Endicott, Neb., and his two sons, Edward Panek of Gooding, Ida., Ladimer and his wife Mary, and five grandchildren, all of Southington, O.; two sisters-in-law, Mrs. Rose Svoboda of Narka, Kan., and Mrs. Anne Deschamps of Chicago, Ill., and many other relatives and a host of friends.
He was a long time member of the Z.C.B.J. Lodge of Cuba.
Funeral services were held Monday, June 17, 1963 at 10 a.m. at the Cuba Presbyterian church. Interment in Tabor Cemetery.
John Paul Panek, son of Paul and Agnes Panek was born in Nova Vesta Czechoslovakia, August 24, 1883, and passed away at the Fairbury, Neb., Clinic June 13, 1963, at the age of 79 years, nine months and 19 days.
He received his education in the schools of his native village, and also received apprenticeship there in the blacksmith trade.
In the year 1907 he came to this country to the city of Chicago, Ill., where he engaged in various kinds of work. In 1909 he came to Kansas where he took up farm work as a hired hand for various farmers of this community. After about two years he engaged as an independent farmer at which occupation he continued until 1920, when he went into partnership as a blacksmith. At this, his beloved trade, he continued for about 36 years. He retired from this occupation in 1956.
On May 24, 1911, he was united in marriage to Minnie Brandt of the Cuba community, this union was blest with the birth of three sons and two daughters. The little family first lived on a farm in Washington County, until Mr. Panek assumed the work of blacksmith in Cuba, where he spent the rest of his life.
He is preceded in death by his wife, Minnie, both of his parents, five brothers, one sister and one infant son.
Surviving and mourning his departure are his two daughters, Helen and her husband Vernon Lesovsky of Narka, Kan.; Elsie and her husband Emmet Fuqua of Endicott, Neb., and his two sons, Edward Panek of Gooding, Ida., Ladimer and his wife Mary, and five grandchildren, all of Southington, O.; two sisters-in-law, Mrs. Rose Svoboda of Narka, Kan., and Mrs. Anne Deschamps of Chicago, Ill., and many other relatives and a host of friends.
He was a long time member of the Z.C.B.J. Lodge of Cuba.
Funeral services were held Monday, June 17, 1963 at 10 a.m. at the Cuba Presbyterian church. Interment in Tabor Cemetery.
The Belleville Telescope, June 20, 1963
John Paul Panek, son of Paul and Agnes Panek was born in Nova Vesta Czechoslovakia, August 24, 1883, and passed away at the Fairbury, Neb., Clinic June 13, 1963, at the age of 79 years, nine months and 19 days.
He received his education in the schools of his native village, and also received apprenticeship there in the blacksmith trade.
In the year 1907 he came to this country to the city of Chicago, Ill., where he engaged in various kinds of work. In 1909 he came to Kansas where he took up farm work as a hired hand for various farmers of this community. After about two years he engaged as an independent farmer at which occupation he continued until 1920, when he went into partnership as a blacksmith. At this, his beloved trade, he continued for about 36 years. He retired from this occupation in 1956.
On May 24, 1911, he was united in marriage to Minnie Brandt of the Cuba community, this union was blest with the birth of three sons and two daughters. The little family first lived on a farm in Washington County, until Mr. Panek assumed the work of blacksmith in Cuba, where he spent the rest of his life.
He is preceded in death by his wife, Minnie, both of his parents, five brothers, one sister and one infant son.
Surviving and mourning his departure are his two daughters, Helen and her husband Vernon Lesovsky of Narka, Kan.; Elsie and her husband Emmet Fuqua of Endicott, Neb., and his two sons, Edward Panek of Gooding, Ida., Ladimer and his wife Mary, and five grandchildren, all of Southington, O.; two sisters-in-law, Mrs. Rose Svoboda of Narka, Kan., and Mrs. Anne Deschamps of Chicago, Ill., and many other relatives and a host of friends.
He was a long time member of the Z.C.B.J. Lodge of Cuba.
Funeral services were held Monday, June 17, 1963 at 10 a.m. at the Cuba Presbyterian church. Interment in Tabor Cemetery.
John Paul Panek, son of Paul and Agnes Panek was born in Nova Vesta Czechoslovakia, August 24, 1883, and passed away at the Fairbury, Neb., Clinic June 13, 1963, at the age of 79 years, nine months and 19 days.
He received his education in the schools of his native village, and also received apprenticeship there in the blacksmith trade.
In the year 1907 he came to this country to the city of Chicago, Ill., where he engaged in various kinds of work. In 1909 he came to Kansas where he took up farm work as a hired hand for various farmers of this community. After about two years he engaged as an independent farmer at which occupation he continued until 1920, when he went into partnership as a blacksmith. At this, his beloved trade, he continued for about 36 years. He retired from this occupation in 1956.
On May 24, 1911, he was united in marriage to Minnie Brandt of the Cuba community, this union was blest with the birth of three sons and two daughters. The little family first lived on a farm in Washington County, until Mr. Panek assumed the work of blacksmith in Cuba, where he spent the rest of his life.
He is preceded in death by his wife, Minnie, both of his parents, five brothers, one sister and one infant son.
Surviving and mourning his departure are his two daughters, Helen and her husband Vernon Lesovsky of Narka, Kan.; Elsie and her husband Emmet Fuqua of Endicott, Neb., and his two sons, Edward Panek of Gooding, Ida., Ladimer and his wife Mary, and five grandchildren, all of Southington, O.; two sisters-in-law, Mrs. Rose Svoboda of Narka, Kan., and Mrs. Anne Deschamps of Chicago, Ill., and many other relatives and a host of friends.
He was a long time member of the Z.C.B.J. Lodge of Cuba.
Funeral services were held Monday, June 17, 1963 at 10 a.m. at the Cuba Presbyterian church. Interment in Tabor Cemetery.
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