Libby Drgac
1905 - 1990 (85 years)-
Name Libby Drgac Nickname Bessie Born 17 Oct 1905 Snook, Burleson County, Texas, USA 
Gender Female Died 26 Oct 1990 Bryan, Brazos County, Texas, USA Buried 28 Oct 1990 Cooks Point Brethren Church Cemetery - Cooks Point, Texas, USA Person ID I1740 Cody LeBlanc's Family Tree Last Modified 16 Jun 2020
Father Joseph Daniel Drgac, Jr., b. 28 Jan 1871, Austin County, Texas, USA , d. 28 Jan 1940, Caldwell, Burleson County, Texas, USA (Age 69 years) Mother Anna Marie Sebesta, b. 29 Feb 1872, Wesley, Washington County, Texas, USA , d. 5 Aug 1932, Caldwell, Burleson County, Texas, USA (Age 60 years) Married 27 Oct 1891 Caldwell, Burleson County, Texas, USA Family ID F656 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Wilton Walter Chaloupka, b. 5 Sep 1906, Caldwell, Burleson County, Texas, USA , d. 22 Jun 1998, College Station, Brazos County, Texas, USA (Age 91 years) Married 12 Nov 1930 Cooks Point, Burleson County, Texas, USA Last Modified 11 Dec 2015 Family ID F772 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Event Map 
Born - 17 Oct 1905 - Snook, Burleson County, Texas, USA 
Married - 12 Nov 1930 - Cooks Point, Burleson County, Texas, USA 
Died - 26 Oct 1990 - Bryan, Brazos County, Texas, USA 
Buried - 28 Oct 1990 - Cooks Point Brethren Church Cemetery - Cooks Point, Texas, USA = Link to Google Earth Pin Legend 
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Photos 
Unity of the Brethren Hus School 1925 Summer
Row 4 - Joe Mikulencak (Granger), Edward Schiller (Rosebud), Lad Hruska (Wesley), Joe Hegar (West)
Row 3 - Vlasta Baca (Rosebud), Lydia Batla-Hegar (Seaton), Julia Jez-Chlapek (Seaton), Bertha Mikulencak-Coombes (Granger), Wilma Skarpa-Janek (West), Angela Baca-White (Ocker), Ella Hejl-Chlapek (Seaton), Stacie Mikulencak-Labaj (Granger), Libby Drgac-Chaloupka (Cooks Point)
Row 2 - Milady Motl-Zalesky (Seaton), Matilda Vychopen-Marek (Ocker), Annie Machalek-Babovec (Seaton), Cora Schiller-Pattillo (Ocker), Emily Elles-Hegar (Ocker), Lydia Hegar-Griggs (West), Agnes Hutka-Machalek (Seaton), Lydia Kral (Ocker), Ella Motl-Howard (Seaton)
Front Row - Henry Chupik (Seaton), Rev. F.H. Horak ? visitor, Edward Sebesta (Snook), Mrs. Marie Hegar, Joe Hegar, Daniel Hegar, Rev. Hegar, Frank Luksa ? assistant teacher, Rev. Josef Barton ? visitor, Charles Hutka (Seaton)
Not Pictured - Lydia Pechal-Rubach (Ocker), Mattie Rynn-Hohlle (Ocker), Hermina Marek-Simcik
Documents 
Obituary of Libby "Bessie" Drgac Chaloupka
Published in The Vestnik SPJST Herald on January 2, 1991
Mr. and Mrs. Wilton Chalopka 50th Wedding Anniversary
Published in The Vestnik SPJST Herald on March 11, 1981
Death Notice of Libby "Bessie" Drgac Chaloupka
Published in The Austin American-Statesman on October 28, 1990
Headstones 
Headstone of Wilton Walter Chaloupka and Libby "Bessie" Drgac Chaloupka
Cooks Point Brethren Church Cemetery - Cooks Point, Texas, US
Headstone of Libby "Bessie" Drgac Chaloupka
Cooks Point Brethren Church Cemetery - Cooks Point, Texas, USA
Picture on Headstone of Wilton Walter Chaloupka and Libby Drgac Chaloupka
Cooks Point Brethren Church Cemetery - Cooks Point, Texas, USA
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Notes - Death Notice:
CHALOUPKA, Bessie Drgac, 85, of Cooks Point died Friday. Prayer service 7 p.m. today, Strickland Funeral Home, Caldwell. Services 11 a.m. Monday, Cooks Point Brethren Church. Burial Cooks Point Cemetery, Cooks Point.
(Published in The Austin American-Statesman on October 28, 1990)
- Obituary:
Bessie Drgac Chaloupka, 85, of Cooks Point, who died Friday evening, October 26, 1990 in a Bryan hospital.
She was born October 17, 1905 in Snook to the late Joseph D. Drgac and Anna Marie Sebesta. She spent most of her life at Cooks Point where she worked as a bookkeeper and clerk at the Cooks Point Store, a business her family owned for 36 years. She attended school in Cooks Point.
She was an active member of Cooks Point Brethren Church where she taught Sunday School for over 50 years, played the pump organ and sang in the choir.
She married Wilton Chaloupka on November 12, 1930. They would have been married sixty years.
Mrs. Chaloupka was a member of the SPJST Lodge No. 186 in Caldwell, the Cooks Point Mutual Aid Society, where she was secretary and a member of the Burleson-Lee Soil Conservation District and a past member of the Burleson County Historical Society. She and her husband, Wilton, donated the building for the Soil Conservation District in Burleson County.
Her family said she would be remembered for her love of growing flowers, cattle, her love of all animals, her active service to the community and for her cooking. A family member said she made the best raisin rolls.
She also helped maintain Slovak Cemetery and the Cooks Point Cemetery.
Mrs. Chaloupka was preceded in death by her parents; four brothers, Walter Drgac, William Drgac, Joe Drgac and Johnnie Drgac; and six sisters, Annie Hronek, Lydia Kubena, Olga Urbanovsky, Milady Kubena, Albina Meyer and Ella Luksa.
Survivors include her husband, Wilton Chaloupka of Cooks Point; two brothers, Ed Drgac and wife Fannie of Cooks Point, Frank Drgac and wife Milady of Cooks Point; also four sisters-in-law, Naomi Lerret of San Antonio, Mattie Chaloupka, Tracy and Robert Wine and Annie Lee Mrnustik, all of Caldwell, plus numerous nieces, nephews and other relatives.
A prayer service was held at 7 p.m. Sunday at Strickland Funeral Home. Funeral services were held at 11 a.m. from Cooks Point Brethren Church with Rev. Norman Haisler and Rev. John Gantt, Jr. officiating. Interment followed at Cooks Point Cemetery.
Pallbearers were Kenneth Hronek, Leon Kubena, Brad Allbright, Fred Jurecka, Marvin Kubena, Lamar Drgac, Dwight Hattermann, Hubert Drgac and Craig Homeyer.
May she rest in eternal peace.
(Published in The Vestnik SPJST Herald on January 2, 1991)
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