Obit: Arbelovsky, Marie (7 DEC 1902 - 8 APR 2002)
 

Contact: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: ARBELOVSKY FANTA SVOBODA BRESEMAN
 

----Source: MARSHFIELD NEWS HERALD (Marshfield, Wis.) 04/11/2002

Arbelovsky, Marie (7 DEC 1902 - 8 APR 2002)

CHILI--Marie Arbelovsky, age 99, of Cherry Valley, Ill., died at her daughter's home on April 8, 2002, at 12:25 a.m., after a brief illness.

The Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, April 13, 2002, at Corpus Christi Catholic Church in Bakerville. Father Gerum and Father Doug Mayer will officiate. Peggy Nelles will be the organist and Ray Drager will assist for congregational singing. Burial will be in St. Stephen's Catholic Cemetery in Chili. Casket bearers are Doug and Rob Noe, Todd Freeburg, Joe Svoboda and Scott and Adam Krasselt.

The family will receive relatives and friends from 9 a.m. until the time of service at the church.

The Gesche Funeral Home is assisting Marie's family with arrangements.

Marie was born Dec. 7, 1902, in Kresin, Czechoslovakia to Josefe and Leopold Fanta. She married Joseph Arbelovsky on Oct. 6, 1923, in Cicero, Ill. Joseph died on Jan. 21, 1992.

Marie farmed with her husband in the Chili area for many years and later they retired and moved to Chili. Marie was a loving mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. She came to the United States in 1922. She was a gentle, hard-working woman who enjoyed cooking, baking, gardening, visiting with family and writing to relatives in Czechoslovakia. The family would like to give a special thanks to O.S.F. St. Anthony Center for Home Health for their compassionate caring. She was a former member of St. Stephen's Catholic Church in Chili.

Marie was preceded in death by her husband, Joseph her parents four sisters a granddaughter, Mary Breseman and a son-in-law, Otto Svoboda.

She is survived by two sons, Frank (Ardith) Arbelovsky of Kenai, Alaska, Joe (Donna) Arbelovsky of Spencer a daughter, Marie Svoboda of Cherry Valley, Ill. 12 grandchildren and 22 great-grandchildren a brother, Joseph Fanta of Kresin Czechoslovakia and many nieces and nephews in the Czech Republic.

Additional note/picture from Jitka Brychtova, The Czech Republic --I am sending you a farmstead (Fantova's cottage) in Kresin where Marie Arbelovsky was born. It was a bit rebuilt from that time, and now Marie's brother grandchildren live there.
 

Additonal Response

I found on the site which was created by the Clark County History Buffs the information about my grandmother's sister Arbelovsky, Marie (7 DEC 1902 – 8APR 2002), which was born in Czechoslovakia in a small village Kresin. My grandmother Josefa Hrbkova was a bit younger then Marie, she was born in Kresin in 1908 and she had been living there all the time. She died earlier in 1978. We haven't have any news about her sister from that time.

As a child I was collecting the postcards and letters and my grandmother gave me also these letters from her sister from America.

I were looking on these old postcards and letters with my mother – the niece of Arbelovsky Marie - this Christmas and then I decided to have a look on Google. I was very surprised when I found immediately full information about the grandmother’s sister Marie and that she was almost 100 years old!

Thank you a lot of, it is wonderful.

I am sending you some of this beautiful letters from Marie Arbelovsky to her sister Josefa to Kresin, full of a love between them. It would be very nice if somebody of our relatives have any letters or postcards from my grandmother.

Jitka Brychtova,, The Czech Republic

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