Obit: Bukovec, Joseph (1879 - 1965)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon

Email: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Bukovec, Sterbence, Rozich, Winecke, Knepper, Chemiel, Brunke, Krultz, Nikolai

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) June 17, 1965

Bukovec, Joseph (14 August 1879 - 12 June 1965)

Joseph Bukovec, 85, of Willard, died June 12 at the Havenet Nursing Home in Owen, where he had been a patient for 19 months after suffering a fractured hip.

Funeral services were held Tuesday at 9 a.m. from the Hill Funeral Home in Greenwood, and at 10 o’clock from Holy Family Catholic Church in Willard. The Rev. William Nikolai officiated. Burial was made in the Holy Family Cemetery.

Mr. Bukovec was born August 14, 1879, in Yugoslavia.  On January 26, 1902, he was married to Louise Sterbence at St. Anton’s Church in Ely, Minn.  They celebrated the 50^th wedding anniversary 13 years ago.  He came to the United States, to Ely, where he worked in the copper mines, moving to Willard in 1910 where they resided until now.

He was a member of the Holy Family Church, and Croatian Fraternal Union of America Lodge.

Survivors besides his wife are six daughters; Mrs. John (Mary) Rozich, Mrs. Leo (Margaret) Winecke and Mrs. Peter (Emily) Knepper of Chicago, Mrs. John (Catherine) Chemiel and Mrs. Charles (Anne) Brunke of Cicero, Ill., and Mrs. Selvian (Vickie) Krultz, of Greenwood; three sons, John of Chicago, Albert of Greenwood and Edward of Willard; 26 grandchildren and 25 great-grandchildren.