FRANK AND MARIE KALAL
Frank and Marie Kalal came from Bohemia to Chicago (date unknown).
Their children were Joseph, Frank, John, Marie, and Louis.
Frank remained in Chicago where he worked as a butcher.
Joseph and his wife, Anna Mlady, farmed. Later they built the first
butcher-shop and then an early hotel in Verdigre. They had three
children: Frank, Marie, and Charles. Frank, a doctor, studied in
Europe. Later he practiced with Drs. Ellison and Kalal at St.
Joseph’s Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska. Marie married Dr. Clark of
Niobrara, Nebraska, and they had two daughters, Blanche Bruce and
Gertrude Williams. Charles, born in 1894, died the following year.
John and wife Josephine Franek were farmers. They had six children:
Lottie, William, Ben, Alice, Elmer, and Edith.
Marie married Vaclav Jedlicka. They had one son, Emil Jedlicka, who
married Eldiva Pavlik.
Louie E. was born November 11, 1870, in Chicago. In 1890 he married
Marie Pavlik, daughter of Matej and Marie Barton Pavlik, who was
born October 22, 1872. They lived on a farm one mile south of
Verdigre for one year. Then he bought a saloon. Later he worked as a
painter and then did the woodwork in the St. Wenceslaus Church in
Verdigre. He traded a keg of beer for three lots north of the
Verdigre High School where he built a home. The house was later
moved and an elementary school was built on that land. Louis and
Marie had two children, Charles, who died in infancy and
Lillian, who was born in 1892 on a farm one mile south of Verdigre.
She graduated from Verdigre High School in 1911, attended Wayne
State College, and taught rural school four years. Louis died
January 6, 1925, of lead poisoning, and Marie died October 15, 1947.
[pg 295PHOTO Double wedding June 9, 1890, in Verdigre - Louis E.
Kalal and Marie T. Pavlik, and Albert Pavlik and Josie Mrzana.
Attendants from left: Albert Stoural and Mary Mrzana, Charlie Pavlik
and Mary Beran.]
-Submitted by Myron Vakoc
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