Obit: Prepeluh, Frank #2 (1883 – 1964)

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Surnames:  Prepeluh, Roznik, O'Hara

----Source:  Owen Enterprise (Owen, Clark Co., Wis.) 1/9/1964

Prepeluh, Frank (1883 – 1 JAN 1964)

 HOLD FINAL RITES FOR FRANK PREPELUH, 80

Final rites for Frank Prepeluh, 80, a resident of the Town of Green Grove and Owen community for the past 50 years, were held at 2:00 O’Clock Saturday afternoon.  The service was conducted from the Hoeper and Kraut Funeral Home, Owen, with Rev. Robert Goessling, Pastor of the First Congregational Church, Owen, reading the service.  Burial was made at Riverside Cemetery.

Serving as pallbearers were Phil Laube, Harvey Schwarze, Sig Anderson, Frank Pabich, Otto Raatz, and Mike Kovatch.

Born March 9, 1883 in Austria Mr. Prepeluh came to the United States as a youth.  In 1903 in New York he and Mary Roznik were united in marriage.  This union was blessed with three children.

Later they lived in Wyoming and Illinois where he was engaged as a coal miner.  In 1914 the family moved to this area settling on a farm in the Town of Green Grove where he farmed until his retirement in 1950.  Since that time he lived in Chicago and traveled extensively these past few years until he became a resident of the Leahy Nursing Home at Abbotsford several months ago.  It was there that he passed away on January 1^st.

He is survived by two sons, Frank of Chicago and John of Owen; one daughter Mary O’Hara of Hawaii, and two grandsons.

His wife preceded him in death passing away in 1957.