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Lavaca County Tribune 20 Dec 1968 Death Takes Husband Three Days After Tragic Death of Wife The life of a closely knit couple which began on the same date March 25th ended almost on the same day. At 9:47 Friday, December 13th, Mrs. Frank Pechacek, age 79, was struck down by a train and at 9:47 Monday, December 16th, Mr. Frank Pechacek, age 85 years, was struck down by Cerebrial hemmorrhage. Her wish had always been that she go first and his wish was to follow her immediately so God granted them their wish. They had sixty years of a beautiful wedded life. Just two weeks ago they celebrated their sixtieth wedding anniversary with their six sons and their families and close relatives. Both were in fairly good health and very happy, wishing they could celebrate their seventy-fifth wedding anniversary. Their life was happy but not an easy one. Mr. Pechacek carried mail on a rural route for about forty years. Fighting the weather after swimming flooded streams to finish his route on foot. There were many sacrifices to help educate their sons but they have been well repaid by the beautiful devotion of the six sons and their families. Mrs. Pechacek was laid to rest in the Flatonia Catholic Cemetery at 2:30 p. m. Sunday, December 15th from the Sacred Heart Catholic Church. Father Edmund Bily offered the Mass and services at Mrs. Pechacek's funeral and Father Galle offered the Mass services at Mr. Pechacek's funeral. Both priests delivered a very consoling sermon. The large concourse of friends and relatives and the beautiful profuse floral offerings showed the great esteem in which they were held. Those left not to mourn and grieve but to have fond memories, are the six sons - Emil of Montana, George of Llano, Ernest of Ft. Worth, Raymond of Houston, John and Frankie of Flatonia; fourteen grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Besides these there are five sisters, two of Mr. Pechacek's namily: Mrs. Jerry (Anna) Michal and Mrs. Frank (Mary) Hanna of Flatonia; three of Mrs. Pechacek's - Mrs. O.S. (Agnes) Manning of Houston and Mrs. Adolph (Mary) Bohuslav and Mrs. Julius (Vlasta) Kutach of Hallettsville. Pallbearers were the same for both, namely: three grandsons, Terri Pechacek, Johnny Pechacek Jr., and Ernest Pechacek Jr; three nephews, Johnnie Hajek, Jerry Michael & Walter Manning. Should there be grief for two lives so well spent and so closely called into
their heavenly home? - Contributed. Posted by Matt Cross ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Austin American-Statesman Lonesome Whistle Sound Joins Farmer With Wife Flatonia - A passenger train will rumble through Flatonia Wednesday morning just as it has passed for many decades, but an 85-year-old rural mail carrier will not hear the lonesome sound that became too lonely for him to hear last week. The sounds from the trains were among the many things shared by Frank and Emma Pechacek as they passed through 60 years of married life together. But the 79-year-old wife of the retured postman walked down the road to her mailbox to post some letters Friday morning. She apparently did not hear the sound of the train as she crossed the tracks on her way back home. And Pechacek was left without the woman who had borne him six sons since the church bells rang for them when they were young. Saturday passed - and the trains passed - and Sunday arrived with a lone bell tolling for the last time for Mrs. Pechacek at her funeral mass at Sacred Heart Catholic Church. Monday arrived, and the clock was about to strick 10 a.m. It was the hour that the train struck Mrs. Pechacek, killing her instantly. The old postman, sitting alone with six decades of memories of his wife, heard the fatal sound of the train approaching on the same old schedule. Before the clickety-click became inaudible, he suffered a stroke. The next two hours were spent without his wife caring for him as she had always done when he was in pain. And, he passed on like the trains. Mr. and Mrs. Pechacek are survived by their sons, Frank and John Pechacek of Flatonia, Raymond Pechacek of Houston, Ernest Pechacek of Fort Worth, George Pechacek of Llano and Emil Pechacek of Montana. They had 14 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Mrs. Pechacek is also survived by three sisters, Mrs. Adolph Bohuslav and Mrs. Julius Kutac, both of Hallettsville, and Mrs. Oscar Hanna of Moulton. Pechacek is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Emma Michal of Flatonia and Mrs. Mary Haanna of Moulton. The train will be arriving Wednesday in Flatonia about the time mourners attend services for Pechacek at Smith Funeral Home. The services begin at the funeral home at 10 a.m. The funeral will continue at Sacred Heart Church at 10:30 a.m. After the
requiem mass, the body will be taken to the Catholic Cemetery, where Pechacek
will join his wife again. By Nat Hendeson Posted by Matt Cross
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