Kec Burials

Frank Kec

Born: December 28, 1878¹ at Voldolka, Czechoslovakia
Died: February 3,1965 at Colfax, Jasper Co., Iowa¹
Buried: Lot 11
Married: Anna Vykuka on July 28, 1919 Prague, Czechoslovakia
Children: Anna Pink, infant daughter²
Parents: Mr. and Mrs. Vaclav Kec

Frank Kec Dies At Colfax;
Rites Will Be Friday

COLFAX--Frank Kec, 86, a resident of Colfax since 1918 died Wednesday evening at the Grand Hotel in Colfax.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at Walters Funeral Home at Colfax.

Father Karl Holtkamp of the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Colfax will conduct the services.

Burial will be in Sugar Grove Cemetery near Metz.

Mr. Kec is survived by his wife, Anna; a daughter, Mrs. Ann Pink of Colfax; and two grandchildren.

The son of Mr. and Mrs. Vaclav Kec, he was born Dec. 28, 1878 in Vodolka, Czechoslovakia.

He came to the United States in 1914, settling at the Sievers mining camp. He returned to Czechoslovakia in 1917 to enlist in the army. He returned to Colfax in 1918.

He was married to Anna Vykuka July 31, 1919 at Prague, Czechoslovakia. ~ The Newton Daily News, February 4, 1965

1. Jasper Co., Iowa Death Records, Book 4, page 452
2. Jasper Co., Iowa Death Records, Book 1 1921-1929, page 52

Anna (Vykuka) Kec

Born: March 28, 1892 in Vodolka, Czechoslovakia
Died: November 16, 1989 in Des Moines, Polk Co., Iowa
Buried: Lot 11
Married: Frank Kec on July 28, 1919 in Prague, Czechoslovakia
Children: Anna Pink, two infant daughters
Parents: Vaslav and Marie Fillip Vykuka

Anna Kec

COLFAX -- Anna Kec, 97, a longtime resident of Colfax, died Thursday, Nov. 16, at the Mercy Hospital Medical Center in Des Moines.

Services will not be held.

Friends may call at Walters-Coburn Home in Colfax. Visitation with the family will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home. Cremation will follow visitation.

Survivors are a daughter, Ann Pink of Newton; two grandchildren, a step-grandchild; and two great-grand-children.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Frank, and two infant daughters.

Mrs. Kec, a member of the Colfax Immaculate Conception Catholic Church had been employed by Newton Manufacturing Co. and Vernon Co. of Newton.

The daughter of Vaslav and Marie Fillip Vykuka, she was born March 28, 1892 in Vodolka, Czechoslovakia.

She was married to Frank Kec July 28, 1919 in Prague, Czechoslovakia.