Obit: Marek, Charles (1899 - 1990)

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Surnames: MAREK MALY WHITE ARNESON COOK BUZEK
 

----Source: Tribune-Record-Gleaner (Clark County, Wis.) 10/31/1990

Marek, Charles (1899 - 1990)

Charles Marek, 90, Neillsville, did Monday, Oct. 22, 1990, at Neillsville Memorial Hospital, Neillsville. Funeral services were held Wednesday, Oct. 24, 1990, at 2 p.m. at United Methodist Church, Granton. Rev. Thomas LaChapelle officiated and burial was in the town of Lynn Cemetery. Fiends served as pallbearers.

Charles Marek was born Nov. 24, 1899, in Czechoslovakia, to Rudolph and Marie (nee Maly) Marek. He came to the United States in 1914 to New York. They settled in Chicago where he worked in a factory. On May 24, 1935, he married Jennie Buzek. She preceded him in death May 24, 1980. In August of 1981, he married Elma White. She survives. He moved to the Granton area in 1956 when he semi retired and continued pulping until 1975.

Survivors include his wife two daughters, Mrs. Kenneth (Eleanor) Arneson, Neillsville and Mrs. August (Dorothy) Cook, Seattle, Wash. five grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.

He is preceded in death by his parents, his first wife, three sisters and two brothers.

Gesche Funeral Home, inc., handled the arrangements.