Frank Orazem (1925-2008)
ORAZEM, MERHAR, FURLAN, MARTINS, GRINTER, SCHMIDT
Posted By: Ames Tribune
Date: 7/11/2008 at 14:48:40
THE AMES TRIBUNE, Ames, Story County, Iowa, Friday, July 11, 2008.
Jan. 19, 1925-July 8, 2008
Frank Orazem, 83, of Manhattan, Kan., died Tuesday, July 8, at Mercy Regional Health Center in Manhattan. Mass of Christian Burial will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, July 12, at Seven Dolors Catholic Church in Manhattan, with Father Joseph Popelka as celebrant. Burial will follow in Sunrise Cemetery in Manhattan.A rosary will be recited at 7:30 tonight, at Irvin-Parkview Funeral Home in Manhattan, Kan., followed by a family visitation at 8 p.m.
Frank Orazem was born Jan. 19, 1925, in Slovenia, Yugoslavia, the son of Marko Orazem and Marija Merhar Orazem. Raised in Yugoslavia during the civil war and communist occupation, he escaped from a military camp into the British zone of Austria at the age of 20. After World War II, he qualified to attend Karl Franzens University in Austria and graduated with a degree in political economy in 1949.
As a political refugee, he came to the United States in 1949 to live with an uncle in Butte, Mont. Ten months later, he was drafted into the U.S. Army and served during the Korean Conflict. He was honorably discharged in September 1952.
While stationed at Fort Riley, he met Slava Furlan, also a refugee from Yugoslavia. They were married June 30, 1953, at Salina, Kan. She died Sept. 21, 2005.
He received a master's degree from Kansas State University in 1953 and a doctorate degree from Iowa State University in 1956. He joined the faculty at K-State in 1956 as an assistant professor, earned his associate professorship in 1960 and was a professor of agricultural economics at Kansas State from 1966 until he retired in September 1990. During those years, he served as a Fulbright lecturer and visiting professor at the University of Naples, Italy (1964 to 1965) and as a consultant at seminars in Hungary, New Delhi and Uganda, and was a consulting editor for the Review of Business and Economic Research. His textbook, "Production Economics," written with John Doll, was a standard book used in colleges and universities around the world.
He is survived by three sons, Mark E. Orazem, and his wife, Jennifer, of Gainesville, Fla., Peter F. Orazem, and his wife, Patti, of Ames, and Thomas C. Orazem, and his wife, Patricia, of Manhattan, Kan.; two daughters, Mary Anne Martins, and her husband, Bob, of Alexandria, Va., and Helena E. Grinter, and her husband, Mark, of Manhattan, Kan.; two sisters, Ana Merhar and Frances Furlan, both of Slovenia; four grandchildren, Matthew Orazem, Katie Orazem, Anna Grinter and James Grinter; and three step-grandchildren, Erika, Nicole and Derek Schmidt.
In addition to his wife, he was preceded in death by his parents; one brother, Marko Orazem; and one sister, Marija Orazem.
Memorial contributions can be made to the Parkinson's Disease Foundation or the Frank Orazem Scholarship Fund-KSU Foundation and left in care of the funeral home.
Online condolences can be sent to www.irvinparkview.com.
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