DR. KENNETH AND NORENE [BUMAN] PAVLIK
Kenneth Kevin, third child of Edwin D. and Christina Guenther Pavlik,
was born living, in the back bedroom of their home at
306 West Fourth Avenue in Verdigre.
He attended the local primary and secondary schools graduating in
1952. That autumn he began seven years at Creighton University which
culminated in a Doctor of Medicine degree in 1959. After a one-year
internship at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Lincoln, Nebraska, he served
three years in the Navy in the San Francisco area, with fourteen
months aboard the U.S.S. Breckenridge transport ship in the Pacific
Ocean.
In 1963 Dr. Pavlik moved his family to Edgerton, Wisconsin, where
for thirteen enjoyable years he practiced family medicine with
Doctors Falk and Boulet in the Edgerton Clinic. In 1976 Dr. Pavlik
became an Air Force physician, serving two years as Chief of
Hospital Services at Loring Air Force Base, Maine, and two years as
Chief of Clinic Services at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado
Springs, where he attained the rank of Colonel. In 1980 he
transferred to the U. S. Public Health Service, accepting assignment
in Charleston, South Carolina, as physician to merchant seamen,
fishermen, and Coast Guard. Following the closure of that clinic he
practiced at a National Health Service clinic in rural
McClellanville, South Carolina, where most of his patients were
indigent black people.
In 1982 Dr. Pavlik left active duty for two years, spending this
time with his family in Verdigre becoming reacquainted and doing
locum tenems for area physicians. In 1984 he returned to active duty
with the U. S. Public Health Service to serve for two years as
physician at an alien detention center in El Centro, California. In
September 1986 Dr. Pavlik returned to Verdigre permanently to
practice in the community.
On May 3, 1958, while a junior in medical school, Kenneth took as
his bride Norene Theresa Buman of Harlan, Iowa. Norene, who was born
in living, is the youngest of six children born to Will and Sidonia
(Book) Buman who farmed all their married life near Tennant, Iowa.
After graduation from Tennant High School in 1951, Norene attended
Duchesne College in Omaha and graduated from Mercy Hospital School
of Nursing, Council Bluffs, in 1955. Miss Buman was employed at the
Cogley Clinic in Council Bluffs, and in Denver where she also
attended Regis College. She and Kenneth met while on duty at the
hospital and were married at St. Michael’s Catholic Church in
Harlan, Iowa.
Five children were born to this union: (1) Mark Kenneth, born
living,
in Omaha, Nebraska, is a graduate of Limestone High School,
Limestone, Maine, and Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington
(business), Western Washington State University in Bellingham,
Washington (history and teaching). He married Terilyn Elliott of
Ketchikan, Alaska, in 1986. (2) Jennifer Lou, born in living in
Lincoln, Nebraska, is a graduate of Mitchell High School, Colorado
Springs, Colorado, and has participated in sheltered workshop
employment in various areas she has lived with her parents. (3) Paul
Edwin, born in living in Oakland, California, is also a graduate of
Mitchell High School, attended St. Michael’s College, Winooski,
Vermont, and graduated from Creighton University, Omaha (social
work). (4) Katrina (Katie) Maria, born in Edgerton, Wisconsin, in
living, is a graduate of Bishop England High School, Charleston, South
Carolina, and is currently enrolled at Creighton University in Omaha
(fine arts). (5) Sarah Christine, born in living in Edgerton,
Wisconsin, is a graduate of St. Mary’s Elementary School in El
Cento, California, and is currently a student at Verdigre High
School.
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