Obit: Kovatch, Walter (1905 – 1972)

Transcriber: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Kovatch, Hodnik, Buss, Venzke, Nabski, Arnia, John, O'Leary

---------Source: OWEN ENTERPRISE (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 06 Jan 1972

Kovatch, Walter (31 DEC 1905 – 2 JAN 1972)

Funeral services for Walter Kovatch were conducted here yesterday from the Hoeper and Kraut Funeral Home. Father Emil Hodnik was in charge of the service, and burial was made at Riverside Cemetery.

Serving as pallbearers were Charles Kovatch, Frederick Kovatch, William Kovatch, Chester Buss, and B. Venzke.

Mr. Kovatch, 67, had been in apparent good health and died suddenly at his home in the Town of Holton (Marathon Co., Wis.), rural Abbotsford, January 2, 1972 of an apparent heart attack.

He was born December 31, 1905 in Wenona, Illinois, and then came to Wisconsin with his parents. He received his education here, graduating from Owen High School and then attended Boys Technical School in Milwaukee. On July 13, 1931 he married Edna Nabski in a ceremony performed in Milwaukee. The couple lived in Milwaukee until 1946, when they started farming in the Town of Holton.

He is survived by his wife; three brothers, Mike and Charles Kovatch of rural Owen, and Frederick Kovatch, Faribault, Minnesota; two sisters, Mary Arnia, Milwaukee, and Mrs. Ann John of Stevens Point; a daughter, Kathleen O'Leary of South Milwaukee; one son, ? Kovatch of Dallas, Texas, and four grandchildren.