Frank Milota

MILOTA, BLAHNIK

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Date: 6/8/2021 at 08:32:17

18 October 1945 - The Anamosa Journal

OXFORD JUNCTION - Frank Milota, 59 year old farmer living five miles southeast of Oxford Junction, ended his life by hanging Tuesday. Clinton Co. Coroner E. L. Martindale said not inquest would be held.

Milota received word Monday that his son, Frank, jr., lost his life last February when the destroyer he was on was sunk in action in the Pacific. He had been previously reported by the navy department as missing.

Milota's body was discovered by his wife, who said that he had carried his son's picture around all day Monday. Later he paid off carpenters who had been building a new house for his son on an adjoining farm.

Surviving are his wife, the former Marie Blahnik; two daughters, Anna, in the Waves in Florida, and Emma, a Wac, stationed in Virginia; his father, John Milota, Oxford Junction, and a brother, James Milota, Lowden.

25 October 1945 - The Anamosa Journal

OXFORD JUNCTION - Funeral service for Frank Milota, 59, who committed suicide by hanging on his farm near Toronto, was held from the Hayden funeral home Saturday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock. Service was in charge of T. B. Hlubucek, Cedar Rapids, speaking for the Z.C.B.J. Lodge Boudoucnost.

Singers were Mrs. A. E. Hodoval, Mrs. Louis Ingwersen and Mrs. Otto Koranda, with Mrs. Palmer Vaughn at the piano. Flowers were in charge of Mrs. Ed Clausen, Mrs. John Buresh, jr., and Mrs. A. J. Burda. Those serving as pallbearers were Dan Clapp, William O'Boyle and Ed Fritcher, Toronto, and John Burda, Frank Nowachek and Edelbert Burda, Oxford Junction. Burial was in Mayflower cemetery.