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- 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
CALDWELL - Funeral services for Bessie Drgac Chaloupka, 85, of Cooks Point will be at 11 a.m. Monday at Cooks Point Brethren Church. Burial will be at Cooks Point Cemetery.
The Rev. Norman Haisler of Cooks Point Brethren Church and the Rev. John Gantt Jr. of Hope Evangelical Free Church will officiate. A prayer service will be at 7 p.m. today at Strickland Funeral Home in Caldwell.
Visiting hours are 8 a.m. until 9 p.m. today and 7:30 a.m. until 9 a.m. Monday at Strickland Funeral Home. The body also will lie at the church from 10 a.m. until service time.
Mrs. Chaloupka died Friday night at a Bryan hospital.
She was born in Snook and spent most of her life in Cooks Point. She was the retired bookkeeper and clerk at the Cooks Point Store, a business her family owned for 36 years.
Mrs. Chaloupka was a member of SPJST Lodge No. 186 in Caldwell; the Cooks Point Mutual Aid Association, where she was the secretary; the Burleson League Soil Conservation District, where she and her husband donated the building that houses the organization; and was a past member of the Burleson County Historical Society.
She was an active member of Cooks Point Brethren Church, where she was a member of the Christian Sisters, taught Sunday school for more than 50 years, played the pump organ and sang in the choir.
She attended Cooks Point public schools as a child.
Her family said she would be remembered for her love of growing flowers and 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 and her husband Wilton would have celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary Nov. 12, 1990.
She is survived by her husband, Wilton Chaloupka of Cooks Point; two brothers and sisters-in-law, Ed and Frannie Drgac and Frank and Milady Drgac, all of Cooks Point; and four sisters-in-law, Naomi Lerret of San Antonio, Mattie Chaloupka, Annie Lee Mrnustic, and Tracy Wine and her husband Robert, all of Caldwell.
Memorials may be made to the Cooks Point Brethren Church.
(Published in The Bryan-College Station Eagle on October 28, 1990)
- Obituary:
Expression Of Sympathy
We, the Resolution Committee of Lodge No. 186, Caldwell, in behalf of our entire membership, wish to express our sincere sympathy to the bereaved family of our departed lodge sister,
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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