Thomas H. PROCHASKA

PROCHASKA, GOCHEE, HINES, JACKMAN, LANGENWALTER, WEBER, KOLAR, KUTZ, RICE, MIKLO, UNDERWOOD, YATES

Posted By: Kathleen Frailey Puls (email)
Date: 1/13/2006 at 00:12:01

The Messenger, Fort Dodge, Iowa, Wednesday July 26, 1995

Thomas H. Prochaska

CLARE---Thomas H. Prochaska, 92, died July 24, 1995 at the Marion Home.

Services will be at 9:45 a.m. Friday in the Chapel of Laufersweiler-Sievers Funeral Home, and at 10:30 a.m. at St. Matthews Church in Clare, with the Rev. Dale Reiff pastor officiating at the Mass of Christian Burial. Burial will be in St. James Cemetery in Clare. There will be a rosary at 4 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home. Visitation will be after 3 p.m. Thursday with a vigil for the deceased at 7 p.m. Thursday.

Survivors include wife, Marie, Fort Dodge; sons, Linus, Franklin, Ind., Peter, Paul, and Joseph all of Fort Dodge; Kevin, Kennesaw, Ga.; daughters, LaVonne Langenwalter, Manson, Louis Weber, Minneapolis, Minn., Phyllis Kolar, Litchfield, Minn., Julie Kutz, Clare, Jean Rice, Sylman, Calif., Kaye Miklo, and Kathy Underwood, both to Fort Dodge, JoAnne Yates, Clare; 34 grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents.

Thomas H. Prochaska was born June 3, 1903 in Clare. He attended schools in Clare and graduated from Clare High School. Following his education, he started in the painting business with his father. He later was employed at Tobin Packing Co., Walker Construction, and for 25 years for Bernie's Service, retiring in 1987. He married Marie Gochee in 1934 at Lemars and they lived in Clare. He became a resident of the Marion Home on July 10. He was an avid hunter and fisherman.