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Banks, Grace Rose (Svestka) 1903 – 1997

BANKS, SVESTKA, SLAMA, ARNDT, SNOPEK

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 3/29/2013 at 08:25:52

Source: Cresco Times July 23, 1997, Page 8

Services held for Grace Banks

Funeral services for Grace R. Banks were held Saturday, July 19 at 10:30 a.m. at the Assumption Catholic Church in Cresco with the Rev. Michael L. Tauke officiating. Interment was in Holy Cross Cemetery in Schley. Conway Funeral Home handled the arrangements.

Grace Rose Banks of Cresco, 93, died Wednesday, July 16, 1997 at Regional Health Services of Howard County in Cresco.

Grace was born on August 30, 1903, in Paris Township, Howard County, the daughter of Lewis and Mary (Slama) Svestka. She attended the rural school and graduated from the Cresco High School. Grace then went to work as a secretary for Western Bill in Waterloo, where she met her future husband, W. James Banks.

On August 20, 1935 Rose was united in marriage in Schley. Following her husband’s death in 1942, she went to work in the anodizing department of John Deere during World War II. Then she did home care for many years. Grace lived in Waterloo and Dyersville and retired to Cresco on June 12, 1993. She was a member of the Assumption Altar and Rosary Society.

Grace is survived by her sister, Lavonne Arndt of Cresco.

She was preceded in death by her husband; her parents; two brothers, Arthur Svestka and Ruben Svestka; and a sister, Lillian Snopek.

Transcribed from a newspaper clipping submitted by Janice Sowers.

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