Obit:

Debevec, Anton Frank Sr. (1910 - 1996)

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Stan

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Surnames: DEBEVEC ZEVNIK BASKOVEC CLIFT

 

----Source: Tribune-Record-Gleaner 05/22/1996

 

ANTON DEBEVEC SR.


Anton Tony Frank Debevec Sr., 86, Greenwood, Clark County, died Tuesday, May 14, 1996, at St. Joseph's Hospital Hospice Care Unit, Marshfield. Funeral services were held at 10:30 a.m. on Monday, May 20, 1996, at St. Mary's Catholic Church, Greenwood. Father Joseph Follmar officiated. Burial was in Holy Family Cemetery, Willard. Pallbearers were Ron Clift, Tim Clift, Alan Debevec, Stanley Pekol, Charles Debevec, and Tony Debevec Jr.


Anton Frank Debevec was born on Feb. 21, 1910, in Lorain, Ohio, to Anton and Mary (nee Zevnik) Debevec. At the age of three, he moved with his parents from Ohio to Willard. He married Frances Baskovec on June 25, 1938, at Holy Family Catholic Church in Willard. She survives. He farmed until 1957. He then worked as a carpenter and moved into Greenwood in 1962. He retired in 1972 and continued to live in Greenwood until the time of his death. He was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church K.S.K.J. Slovenian Lodge and a former school board member for Kippenhan School in the Town of Mead.


Survivors include his wife, Frances two sons, Charles Debevec and Anton Debevec Jr., both of Ham Lake, Minn. one daughter, Carol (Ron) Clift, Circle Pines, Minn. two grandchildren and four brothers, Robert Debevec and Frank Debevec, both of Willard Charles Debevec, Rockville, Maryland and Raymond Debevec, Pasco, Wash.


He was preceded in death by his parents, two brothers and three sisters.


Rinka Funeral Home assisted the family with arrangements.

 

 


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