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at Bryan High School and is very active in school work. She is also a cheerleader and maintains a high scholastic record in her class. Stacey earns spending money from baby-sitting jobs in the neighborhood, and for her sister, Audrey.

   Howard worked for Wilson and Co. for 20 years and I worked there for 5 years until they closed in 1975. He is still in the meat-packing business, and at home, experiments a lot on making sausages of all kinds, testing them out on the family. I am secretary at Burke High School in Omaha for the past five years. Submitted by Lois Pacal Hynek

   Rieva Hynek Beem was born on July 6, 1959 to Howard and Lois Hynek. She is a sister of the girls mentioned in the previous Hynek family stories. She attended grade school in Gilder and Pawnee schools. After graduating from Bryan High School, she worked for Mutual of Omaha and various other business places. While in school, she was in track and gymnastics.

Rieva Hynek Beem, daughter of Howard and Lois Hynek

   While these Hynek girls were growing up, they attended Bible School at the Czech Presbyterian Church near Wahoo, Nebraska. During this time, they stayed with their grandparents for one week each summer. Rieva was quite a seamstress, but it seemed she didn't have time during the week of her stay in Malmo to finish a new dress for the Bible School Program. Having a new dress for this occasion was very important. As it was, she and her grandmother, Mildred Pacal, finished hand-made button-holes and all, by 1:30 A.M. on the Sunday morning.

   But after a number of years, she met Michael Beem and they were married in November of 1977 in Omaha.

   They moved to Denver, Colorado where Michael has employment with the Chevron Oil Company.

   They have a daughter, Melissa, born March 30, 1980. In May of 1982, she was stricken with kidney syndrome, but has almost fully recovered at this time.

   They just recently purchased a new home in Broomfield, Colorado, a suburb of Denver. Submitted by Mildred Pacal

   Audrey Hynek Black is the eldest daughter of Howard and Lois Pacal Hynek of Omaha, Nebraska. She is the granddaughter of Elmer and Mildred Novak Pacal of Malmo.

Audrey Hynek Black, Daughter of Howard and Lois Hynek.

   Audrey has three sisters, two of which have birthdays in March; Stacey, the fifteenth, and Pam, the thirtieth. Then Audrey has her birthday on the twenty-second. This indeed is a busy and expensive month for the entire family, but a happy birthday time is enjoyed by all. She attended grade school in the Gilder and Pawnee schools in Omaha, and graduated from Bryan High in 1975. She was in the Pom-Pom girls group, which is a group with the cheerleaders.

   At UNO she took a course in Health and earned credits to be a medical assistant. She worked for Drs. Reedy and Somsky.

   She was married to Michael Black in 1978. They have a son, Jason, born May 28, 1980, and another son, Jeremy, born June 17, 1982. They live in Omaha, where Michael is employed. Audrey babysits in her home for children in the neighborhood for working mothers. She has had a lot of experience while helping care for her younger sisters. Her youngest sister, Stacey, especially missed Audrey when she was married and left to make her own home in life. By grandmother Mildren F. Pacal

   They had met there many times -- Rett as a student and Patti as a teacher. It was halfway between Lincoln and Fremont and thus convenient to type college papers and spend some time together. How coincidental when months later they became engaged and married, only to find their first home in Wahoo. Patti became an elementary teacher with the Wahoo Schools and Rett became a law student in Lincoln.

Everett and Patricia Inbody Family

   Actually, coincidences occurred quite often. Like Patti's birth being September 13, 1944, to Wendell and Thelma Skinner Lee of Edgar, Nebraska and Rett's was September 13th a year later, 1945. Rett was a city boy, born in Columbus, Nebraska, to Everett O. and Nina Bracken Inbody; while Patti was a country girl. Both could boast of a grandmother named Pearl -- Pearl Bracken and Jessie Pearl Skinner. Both had one parent born in 1911.

   Their ancestry is comprised of English, Irish, Scotch, and German.

   None of their ancestry ever lived in Saunders County. But they have had four children born to them since settling here: Bernard Charles in 1972 (coincidentally on their fifth wedding anniversary), Carrie Lee in 1974, Rebecca Ann in 1976, and Benjamin Colin in 1979. Carrie Lee died in 1975 of a flu strain similar to that of the flu of 1918.

   Rett is in his twelfth year practicing law in Wahoo. The Inbody family finds church, school, business and recreational life very full in this Saunders County community. By Patricia Inbody

   Our original home was South Dakota -- I was the oldest of four, and my wife, Jackie, was the oldest of thirteen children. We traveled much before settling here, but being from close secure families, we were anxious to put down our own roots. Jackie was an Army nurse with a specialty in intensive care. Before Nebraska we lived in Kansas, San Antonio, and Missouri. Upon her discharge in 1975, I got my first full-time teaching and coaching position in Mead, and our first child, Mary Beth, was born during that school year. We finally felt like a real family.

   Coming from small-town farming communities, we really appreciated this area and the quality of its people. It didn't take long to claim Nebraska as home, especially with kolaches (what are they???) and with "Big Red" just down the road! We bought a home in Wahoo in 1976, and I enjoyed becoming the customary backyard farmer and Mr. Fix-it!

   Because of my concern for quality education for our young people, I felt a need to become more involved in the educational process. I began taking classes at UNL in the field of educational administration. I eventually served as elementary principal, and am now serving as secondary principal in Mead with a specialist degree in administration. I respect the position of being able to make decisions concerning our students, of fostering high ideals in them, and in watching them mature into responsible young adults.

   We are fortunate to be involved with two communities -- Mead, my work, and Wahoo, our home. We have found the people to be warm and caring. An important aspect of our life is the association with our church and school, St. Wenceslaus. There is always deep satisfaction in working with others toward a common goal. We feel this sense of fellowship as we reach out and serve our Christian community.

   Jackie is still involved in nursing. She is the diabetic and cardiac counselor for patients at Saunders County Hospital. It doesn't involve a lot of time, but it is satisfying for her to deal with patients so closely. She has also been involved in Le Leche League. But she enjoys most being a full-time mother. We've had two more children since we moved to Wahoo; Laura in 1977 and Andrew in 1980, and we are happily anticipating our fourth child in early summer.

   My father, a farmer, taught me an appreciation of the land, the out-of-doors, working with my hands, and always striving to learn more. Jackie came from a family of artists and musicians, and in such a large family, with a major emphasis on family homemaking skills. Our enjoyments include gardening, woodworking, sports, music, needlework, quilting, and artistic projects. We trust that some day our children will be inspired to cherish their heritage with our traditions of faith, knowledge, creativity, and

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hard work, and will appreciate the small, but important, treasures which add to the richness of life. By Kevin Ingemansen

   On May 9, 1869, my grandfather, Joseph John Silhacek, was born in the little village of Vilova, in Nova Kdeyn County, Czechoslovakia to Joe and Katie Silhacek. At the age of fourteen, he left his family and boarded a large two-engine ship. Fourteen days later, they docked at New York harbor, but no one was allowed to leave the ship for a time because of illness on board. Arrangements had been made for him and several others to board trains and head for the Middle West. He arrived in Wahoo and was employed on a farm for the next seven months for $6 a month. His employer was an Irishman and he gradually began learning English. For the next few years he worked for other neighbors, saved his money, and sent for his sixteen-year old sister, Anna. He then started farming for himself near Prague. Between him and Anna, they managed to save enough money to bring his parents, Albert, John, Mary, and Barbara to this country to farm near Prague. In 1883, he moved to Pierce, Nebraska where he farmed and married. After the birth of their four children and the death of Alojzie, he married my grandmother, Emma Pospisil. My mother, Bessie, was the oldest of their six children.

   My father, Roley Ray Isom, was born in Woodbine, Iowa. He married my mother April 7, 1928. They farmed in Wayne County near Sholes. They had six children: Phyllis, Lila, Roley, Ilene, Emogene and me.

   I attended the rural school in Sholes until junior high. Mom and I moved into Randolph where I completed my education. I had always wanted to be a teacher like my four sisters so I attended Wayne State College. Taking advantage of the trimester program, I received by BAE in 1967. My first teaching position was fourth grade in Fremont, Nebraska where I taught for three years. In 1970, I lived in Wahoo while I taught in Yutan. Later, I moved to Yutan and purchased a home. In 1976, the Wahoo Jaycees named me Outstanding Young Educator in Saunders County. After teaching for nine years in Yutan, I decided to leave the profession. I now work in the office for the P.&I.E. Department at 3M in Valley.

   I am a member of St. Peter's United Church of Christ in Yutan, serve on the Consistory, sing in the choir and help with Sunday School.

   The love shared by my family is important to me. There are twenty-eight nieces and nephews and their twenty-five offspring who add joy to my life.

   My favorite pastimes are baking, bridge, pitch, reading, embroidery and playing volleyball. I have traveled to thirty-three states and feel that a college minor in history laid the foundation for my interest in United States, and especially Nebraska history and my desire to visit historical sites. Submitted by Karen Kay Isom

   When Julius and I found that we were expecting our first child after eight years of marriage, Julius decided that New Jersey was not the place to raise our child. So we decided to see what Nebraska looked like on a two-week vacation in July of 1963. We drove nearly in a circle around Nebraska. We loved what we saw and couldn't get over how close the sky looked to the earth.

   We heard so much about Nebraska. At that time there was no state income tax, it was a Republican state, and people lived much longer here. Gary Moore and Durward Kirby gave a report on Nebraska on our radio in our store, saying that there were large quantities of good underground water and, of course, other things too. We visited Eppley Airport while on this vacation and saw a list of all these, and other good things, posted in the lobby.

   We returned to our home in Fords, New Jersey. Julius studied the Nebraska map and came up with Wahoo. He felt it was close enough to Lincoln and Omaha, but far enough away from them not to be bothered with traffic and noise. He then wrote for a subscription to the Wahoo Newspaper.

   On May 9, 1964, we and our little son drove out with a few of our necessities, and later, sent for our furniture. We lived in Wahoo for two years and, since Julius worked as a guard for the state Penitentiary's trustee division in Mead, we decided to buy a piece of land in Ithaca, nearer to Mead. Harold Mandstedt built our home. Our Mary Ann Joy was born that year; she was five months old when we moved here.

   Julius Henry is now eighteen years old. He will be nineteen in February. He is attending Doane College in Crete. His major is computer. Mary Ann Joy was sixteen in August. She is a junior in Wahoo high. Julius now works for the Wahoo Post Office. I am newspaper correspondent for the Wahoo and Ashland newspapers. We attend the Faith Baptist Church in Louisville. We are very happy in Ithaca and call this our home. We visit our parents every year. Their hopes are that we move back to New Jersey. We love this land and we have no desire to live back in N.J., even though that's where we both were born and raised. Here, we have found the Lord of our lives and have grown in Him. Here we have peace and tranquility which we've never found in New Jersey. Nebraska is truly the "good life." By: Mary Ann Izso

   Although "Jackson" is not Swedish, all eight of our great, great, great-grandparents were born and died in the Linköping area in Sweden in 1740's and 1750's. Most were farmers, two were "rusthollare," farmers who provided soldiers with lodging and horse in return for reduction of taxes.

   First mention of the farm at Degeryd Vardsberg parish, Östergötland, is 1818 when Anders Jonsson moved there "to his own farm." Grandfather Johan Fredric (Jacobsson) Jackson was born there and came from there to America in 1868.

   His father, Jacob Petter Jonasson, had a home and cobbler's shop at Asplund, a portion of Degeryd. The original home remains and is a "summer stuga." Porcelain stoves remain and the original square stove with brick oven. Here four children were born. When the three sons grew to manhood, all learned the shoe cobbler's trade and left home. The original cobbler's shop also remains.

   When Grandfather Johan Fredric Jacobsson emigrated to America in 1868, he first stayed with relatives in New York, then worked in a coal mine in Blomsburg, Pennsylvania. In 1870-71, he went with Andrew Anderson, whom he had met at the mine, to Saunders County, Nebraska. Each one filed a claim on adjoining homesteads of 80 acres in Saunders County. He changed his name to Fred Jackson.

   They first lived in a dugout. They bought a yoke of oxen and a breaking plow to break the virgin prairie. One ox became lost, and they later found it mired in mud, starved to death. They later bought a team of horses and an old wagon, and later a new "Mitchell" wagon in Fremont for $105.

   In 1871, Fred Jackson invited his sister in Sweden, Christian Josefina Jacobsdotter, to come to America and keep house for him. She came, sold all her household goods, hired a one-horse rig with driver, and left first for Norrkoöping. Then she rode the train to Gothenburg, and secured passage on a small steamer to England, and then to America. Eventually she married his partner, Andrew Anderson. They became parents of Herman David Anderson, who was born in 1878 in Saunders County. The two adjoining farms continued to be owned by the next generation for several years, until the 1940's.

   During his lifetime, Fred Jackson served in various capacities in the area: he was court administrator, helped in land transactions, was a school director for nineteen years, road commissioner, and county treasurer for one year.

   Fred Jackson married Johanna Christina Pollack at Fremont, on December 11, 1875, and they became parents of 7 children, all raised on the original Jackson homestead. Fred Jackson died there June 29, 1909. Johanna, the mother, continued to live there with her son until her death May 2, 1927. Submitted by Mrs. Everett Lindorff

   Charles Harry Jakeman was born in Sedalia, Missouri on October 22, 1883. His family had come from Birmingham, England, and most of them had been craftsmen in the railroad shops, and continued their trade in Missouri and in Omaha, Nebraska.

   Nan Anderson was one of seven daughters of John A. Anderson and was born in Sweden. In 1890, Mr Anderson came to Fremont as a buyer of grain for Nye, Snyder Fowler Co., and Nan and Harry met and married in Colon, Nebraska Nov. 5, 1907. They had one son, Harry Anderson, who has recently retired from a surgical practice in Fremont, Nebraska, but who continues to live in Saunders County.

   Because four of the Anderson sisters lived in the Wahoo area, the Jakeman family moved to Wahoo in August, 1919. Harry had his own shop until he retired in 1960. The two sisters who lived on adjoining farms near Malmo were Sadie (Mrs. Albert Noreen), and Anna (Mrs. Albert Lawson).

   The only surviving member of the John Anderson family is Ruth Jeffery, who lives in Omaha with her son, Tom. Harry Jakeman died March 26, 1961, and Nan Jakeman passed away in Fremont, March 8, 1976. Submitted by Dr. Harry A. Jakeman

   My paternal grandfather, Wilhelm Heinrich Otto (1835-1909), was born in Dans Krugeber, Schwerin, Pommern, Germany, and Grandmother Karolina Louisa (Miehl) Otto (1841-1928), was born in Varchmin, Schwerin, Pommern, Germany. They came to America in 1882 with ten children, namely, Augusta, Friedricks, Karl Friedrich, August, Ida, Albert, Bertha, Wilhelm, Anna and Emille. Youngest daughter, Ema, was born in America.

George and Anna Jacobs, June, 1960

   The Hanke family east of Ithaca, whom they had known in Germany, wrote to them, encouraging them to come to America and invited them to live with them until they could find a place to live. When they came to Saunders County, they arrived by train at Mead, and one of the Treptow family, a neighbor of the Hanke's, got them from the train.

   They obtained 120 acres of land under a land grant from the Union Pacific Railroad, one-half mile south of the Ithaca Zion Lutheran Church. My grandfather was one of the five founders of that church, of which I have been a member all my life.

   My father was Karl Friedrich Otto, known as Fred Otto, born in Schmollenhagen, Pommern, Germany, July 2, 1865 -- died December 19, 1948. He came to America at age 17.

   My mother, Maria Sophia Becker, born in Kirschdorf, Hanover, Germany, November 14, 1868, died June 21, 1925. She came to America with her uncle to make her home with another uncle who lived near West Salem, Wisconsin. She did domestic work in that area; later worked for a time in San Francisco, California, and at the time of the first World's Exposition in Chicago, worked in a hotel there. After that, she came to the Ceresco community to the Nietfelt family, met my father, and they were married January 23, 1894.

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   Their first home, one mile east of Zion Lutheran Church, was the one where I was born February 11, 1895. We always referred to this place as the "Hank Long Place". On March 6, 1895, they purchased eighty acres of land four and one-half miles east of Ceresco. They moved onto this farm the following year and lived on that place the rest of their lives. They later acquired 71 acres west and 100 acres east of the "home place". In 1981, my brother, Albert, moved a house onto the land east of the "home place" and now he and my sister, Emma, reside there. The "home place" is presently occupied by Gary and Debbie Otto, and is where Otto Feed and Seed Company is located. Gary and his brother, Jerry, operate Otto Feed and Seed, and they are sons of my youngest brother, William, and wife, Margaret.

   I am the eldest of ten children, namely -- Anna (husband -- George Jacobs), Emil (wife -- Rosa Breyer), Elsie, Emma, Albert, Edith (husband -- William Burmeister), August, Bertha (husband -- Irvin Logeman), Edna (husband -- Charles Tuller) and William (wife -- Margaret Hauschild). Emil and Edith are deceased. Besides raising ten children, my parents made a home for my father's youngest sister for a time and also took care of my cousin, Rose Otto (Mrs. Ed Lanik) from age six months to six years when her mother, Mrs. August Otto, died.

   I attended school at District 52. Due to the necessity of helping at home and attending confirmation school two winters, my education was limited to four or five years. I remember well the discipline in our school. One teacher always carried a short leather whip looped over her wrist. It was frequently used on the bigger boys.

   In those days when a baby was born to a relative or friend, or they had illness, the older girls would lend a helping hand with little or no pay. As a young girl, I did housework. I remember one of the first things I bought with my own money was a new winter coat -- any money left over, after buying necessities, was given to my parents.

   When I became older, I did housework near Memphis, Nebr. I was on my own then and kept all my money. I had a cousin, Mrs. Jessye Jacobs, who lived close to where I worked, so on Sundays I visited there a lot. Jessye's husband, Will, had a younger brother, George, whom I met and later married. There was an old house in the neighborhood, into which we moved, and where our older daughter, Mabel, (now Mrs. Lester Swanson, Ceresco) was born. This house was so poor. Sometimes we had to clean the snow up that had sifted in around the doors and windows. The first year George worked out and hauled lumber from Wahoo and helped a carpenter build a house for a neighbor.

   The next year we moved to eighty acres owned by my husband's father, William Jacobs, where our other daughter, Alvera (Mrs. Laurence Ziegenbein, Ashland) was born. We farmed land in that area until February, 1942, when the government took our farm for the Nebraska Ordnance Plant. It was in October, 1941, when the government told us we had to move. That was quite a shock to have to move from your land and lose all your neighbors. They moved every direction. Several families moved to Oakland, Nebr., but we bought a farm west of Memphis where we lived until George passed away July 26, 1961. George's birthday was April 11, 1893.

   I remained on the farm until 1963, when I moved to Ceresco. I am now residing with my daughter and son-in-law, Lester and Mabel Swanson, where I have been since September, 1977. My immediate family includes two daughters, nine grandchildren and seventeen great-grandchildren. Submitted by Anna (Otto) Jacobs

   Albert Jambor was born on a farm west of Prague, March 31, 1914. He was the sixth of eight children born to Joseph S. and Emilie (Ostry) Jambor. Grandparents were Joseph and Frantiska (Rerucha) Jambor and Frank and Marie (Schultz) Ostry -- all of the grandparents came to this area from Czechoslovakia and settled on homesteads in the early 1870's.

   He attended rural school District 94, St. Wenceslaus Parochial school in Wahoo and graduated from Wahoo High School in 1931.

   Albert and Rose Pernicek of Linwood were married October 20, 1943 at SS. Peter and Paul Catholic Church at Abie. Since then they are members of SS. Cyril and Methodius Catholic Church (Plasi). Rose was born August 10, 1918 at Brainard to parents, Emil and Ella (Hajek) Pernicek. Her grandparents were Frank and Marie (Sobotka) Hajek and Anton and Mary (Jelinek) Pernicek. She attended rural school District #53, Butler County and graduated from Schuyler High School in 1936. She then taught in rural schools for eight years before her marriage.

   The children of this marriage numbered three. Jeanne Jakub of David City, a graduate of David City High and St. Elizabeth's school of nursing, is employed at Butler County Hospital. She and Albin are parents of 3 children -- Kris, Kari and Jeff. Allen of Lincoln, graduate of Bishop Neumann High with a degree in engineering from U.N. at Lincoln, is employed by Hoskins, Western. He married Carmen Gilster of Pender and they have two children, Brooke and Jenny. Galen, a graduate of Bishop Neumann, Wahoo attended U.N. of Lincoln and operates the family farm. He married Alice Fiedler of Weston. Their children are Lori, John, and twins, Katy and Maggie.

   Albert and Rose remember well the inconvenience of muddy roads and the hard labor of cornpicking, grain shocking, threshing, farming with horses, loading manure with a fork, milking cows and cranking the cream separator, etc.

   In 1944, they moved to their own farm and the end of the war was followed by rapid change. Modern tractors, corn pickers, combines, hay balers and manure loaders were available and made heavy work easier.

   The coming of electricity to the farm in 1950 led to the development of the present dairy farm. The milking machine made it possible to milk more cows. The change was made from dual purpose cows to Holsteins. Mechanical cooling in 1952 helped qualify the farm for Grade A milk production. In 1954, artificial breeding was introduced and bulk tank milk handling installed in 1958. A pipe line and milk parlor were added in 1965 and improvements are added to the present time.

   Albert's civic activities include: Township A.S.C.S. Committeeman, school board member, 4-H leader and Director of Prague Co-op Store. He was involved in organization of Cottonwood Creek Watershed District and served as director and chairman until its absorption by the Natural Resources District. He also served as member of the Nebraska Natural Resources Commission for six years and is currently director and chairman of Lower Platte North N.R.D. Albert Jambor

   Ernest Jambor, the seventh child of Joseph S. and Emilie (Ostry) Jambor, was born on January 16, 1918 on a farm west of Prague. He has three brothers and four sisters: Ivan, Raymond (deceased), Lydia Pospisil, Agnes Osmera (deceased), Albert, Alice Vojtech, and Lorene Woita. His grandparents are Joseph and Frances (Rerucha) Jambor and Frank and Marie (Schultz) Ostry.

   Ernest attended Saunders County District #94, St. Wenceslaus, and graduated from Prague High School in 1935. After serving in the Armed Forces from October 17, 1941 to March of 1946, he returned to the family farm.

   On December 30, 1946, he married Jeannette Voboril at St. John's Catholic Church, Prague. Jeannette was born in Prague on February 16, 1926 to James J. and Marian (Zizka) Voboril. James Voboril was the rural mail carrier in the Prague area for over thirty years until he was killed in a car accident delivering mail on July 12, 1965. After graduating from Prague High School, Jeannette taught in the Saunders County rural schools for three years.

   Ernest and Jeannette are the parents of three daughters and two sons, all graduates of Wahoo Neumann High School. Trudy graduated from the College of St. Mary's and is employed at Bergan Mercy Hospital, Omaha. Phyllis, a graduate of Creighton University, works for the Visiting Nurse Association of Omaha. She and her husband, Ernest Haag have one son, Adam. Nancy, who married Joel Staley, received her degree from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and is currently employed by the State Department of Welfare in Lincoln. Steve also graduated from the University of Nebraska and currently works for Archer Daniels Midlands in Lincoln. He married Sonia Hernandez and they have two children, Jason and Abby. Jim is attending the University of Nebraska. He and his wife, the former Anita Kobza, have two sons, Chris and Brent.

   Ernest and Jeannette live on the farm where he was born and have been Grade A dairy farmers since 1958. He is a member of the Prague American Legion and served as Legion Chaplain for a number of years. In past years he was also a member of the Elk Precinct Election Board and the Farmers Union Co-op Oil Association Board of Directors.

   Ernest and Jeannette are members of SS. Cyril and Methodius Church, Plasi, Nebraska. Submitted by Ernest and Jeannette Jambor

   Joseph S. Jambor (1876-1963) was born on a farm southwest of Prague, one that his father and grandfather had homesteaded. Grandfather Frantisek was a retired Austrian soldier. Joseph's father was a carpenter by trade and built many buildings in and around Prague, including the first Plasi church.

   In 1900, Joseph S. married Emilie Ostry (1879-1934), the daughter of Frank and Marie Schultz Ostry, who were also homesteaders of Czechoslovakian descent. They lived on a 160-acre farm three miles west and one mile south of Prague. Joseph S. spent his life providing a living and education for his family. He retired in 1946 and moved to a home in Weston. His wife, Emilie, had passed away in 1934 when the youngest child was ten years old. In those difficult years of drought and depression he had to manage a motherless home.

   From the time when the first children married, the family had one day in the year when everyone came to a get-together. After the death of Emilie, the date for this was set for the first Sunday in August, the approximate date of Joseph's birthday. After his death this custom was continued and the reunion is hosted in rotation by the families of the eight children. This, to our knowledge, is probably one of the oldest, continuous family reunions in this area.

   The children of Joseph and Emilie were: Ivan, married to Emily Franta (deceased); Raymond (deceased), married to Rose Franta; Lydia, married to Emil Pospisil (deceased); Agnes (deceased), married to Anton Osmera (deceased); Alice, married to James Vojtech; Albert, married to Rose Pernicek; Ernest, married to Jeannette Voboril, and Lorene married to Louis J. Woita. Joseph S. Jambor Family

   On May 23, 1906, Frank Janak and his bride, the former Mary Kucera, arrived in Colon to make their home. Frank was born in Weston and had lived in Saunders County all his life. Mary was born in Wisconsin and came to Nebraska with her parents in a covered wagon. The children often played hide-and-seek in the deep tracks in the road which had been made by the wheels of wagons and buggies.

   Frank was in business in Colon and had purchased a small house for their home. Mary had worked in Wahoo in homes as a cook, in boarding houses as a waitress, and also as a maid in the Le Grande Hotel when Darryl Zanuck was born. Darryl remembered her on a visit to Wahoo and presented her with a savings bond.

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