A transcription of pages 195-469,
Family Histories from the Verdigre Centennial Book
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BEN AND MILDRED [JANICEK] ROUBICEK

Ben Roubicek was born in 1893 in Bobnice, Bohemia. In 1913 he came to the United States. He went to work and then when the United States entered World War I, he served as a member of the American armed forces.

In 1918 he married Mildred Janicek. Mildred, daughter of Frank and Frances Janicek, Bohemian immigrants, was born on a homestead farm near Burwell on August 20, 1898. There were three children, Carl (deceased), Evelyn (Donley), and Frank.

Ben operated a meat market first at Taylor, Nebraska, and then at Timber Lake, South Dakota.

In 1923 the Roubiceks moved to Verdigre where Ben operated a meat market most of the time until 1942. Several times during this period he rented out the market and concentrated on raising and feeding cattle on one of his farms, only to start in again as a butcher. In 1928 he built the shop on the north side of Sunder’s Sundries (then Bates’ Drugs), though he was not the first person to operate a meat market in it.

Ben died in retirement July 12, 1972, and Mildred died January 15, 1985, at the Good Samaritan Home in Bloomfield.

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