Obit: Vobora, Tony (1890 – 1972)

Transcriber: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Vobora, Nickel, Marek, Gross, Bartlett, Walker, Gluch, Junik

----Source: Tribune/Record/Gleaner (Loyal, Wis.) 21 Dec 1972

Vobora, Tony (2 APR 1890 – 17 DEC 1972)

Tony Vobora, 82, route 2, Granton (Clark Co., Wis.), died early Sunday at Memorial Hospital, Neillsville.

Funeral services for Tony were held at 1:30 p.m., Wednesday at the Georgas Funeral Home, with the Rev. Melvin Nickel, pastor of the United Methodist Church, officiating. Burial was in the town of Lynn Cemetery.

Tony Vobora was born April 2, 1890, in Czechoslovakia. He received his education there, and came to the United States alone, locating in California. He operated a ranch there before moving to Clark County, Wisconsin and location on a farm in the town of Lynn in 1920. The farm was sold in 1969, but he had resided in the town of Lynn. He was a member of Western Fraternal Lodge No. 303, town of Levis.

He was married on Feb. 21, 1917, in Santa Anna, California to the former Mary Marek, who survives him.

Other survivors include five daughters, Mrs. Leo (Marie Gross, Neillsville; Mrs. Leonard (Agnes) Gross, Hawley, Minn.; Mrs. Harold (Josephine) Bartlett, West Bend; Mrs. Harold (Angela) Walker, Neillsville, and Mrs. Libbie Gluch, Granton; four sons, Anton, Granton; James, Marshfield; George, Medford, and Stanley, Mosinee; one sister, Mrs. Bessie Junik, Monterey Park, California; three brothers, Lee Vobora and Lee Vobora, Perris, Calif., and James Vobora, San Jacinto, Calif.; 31 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by a son, Frank, and by five brothers and three grandchildren.