the fencl family
generation 1 - frank and josephine (prochaska) fencl
Photo 836, funeral card for Frank Fencl and Photo 78, funeral card for Josephine Fencl. Note the typos in the funeral card of Frank Fencl. Genealogists Fran & Bob Blecha say, ‘The year is right, the day is wrong. Frantisek
Fencl died on Apr. 1, 1906. He was the father of the Frank Fencl who married
Celestina Karas. This Frantisek Fencl was the husband of Josephine Prochaska, and
the name on his headstone is spelled "Fencl", just as it was when he
was born in the old country."
Information about the descendants of Frank and Josephine Fencl was provided by genealogists Fran & Bob Blecha in June 2015:
generation 2 - frank and celestine (karas) fencl
Frank and Josephine Fencl's children included a son named Frank. Frak married Celestina Karas and they had 12 children.
Here's a picture of the Fencl family with 10 of their 12 children. One, Lillie died in infancy and their youngest, Milton, is not here.
This is Photo 643, the original, and then two photoshopped versions. When posted on Facebook in June 2015, Roy Mullin said that the picture was taken south of the ZCBJ Hall.
Left to right: Charles, Albert, Harry, Celestina holding baby Agnes, Frank, Barbara, Will, Bertha, Emma, Rosie, and Mary. Their youngest, Milton, is not in the photo. Bob & Frankestimate that the photo was taken circa 1908, because of baby Agnes. She was born August 9, 1907, and she looks to be maybe a year old or less in the photo.
This is Photo 643, the original, and then two photoshopped versions. When posted on Facebook in June 2015, Roy Mullin said that the picture was taken south of the ZCBJ Hall.
Left to right: Charles, Albert, Harry, Celestina holding baby Agnes, Frank, Barbara, Will, Bertha, Emma, Rosie, and Mary. Their youngest, Milton, is not in the photo. Bob & Frankestimate that the photo was taken circa 1908, because of baby Agnes. She was born August 9, 1907, and she looks to be maybe a year old or less in the photo.
For fun, here are some of the details of this photograph:
In this photo shared on Facebook by Susan Fencl Fuller are the Frank & Celestina Fencl family. Back: Will, Celestina, & Frank. Middle: Rosie, Bertha, & Mary. Front: Milton, Agnes & Harry. Photo 2052.
generation 2 - mary fencl sochor
Frank & Josphine Fencl also had a daughter named Mary, a sister to the Frank Fencl who married Celestine Karas. Here is her 1945 obituary.
GEORGE, LENA, & LOU FENCL
Here are George Fencl, Lena Fencl Lang, and Lou Fencl, shared by Lena's granddaughter Marcia Lang Schlegelmilch.
Photo 8055, shared by Marcia Schlegelmilch.
Louis (1905-1961), George (1906-1991), and Lena (1908-1985) were the oldest of the six children of Frank L. and Matilda Zelenka Fencl (1876-1909 & 1884-1933). The others were Jess (1911-2010), Elsie Fencl Nagunst (1913-1997), and Alma Fencl Hogan (1920-2005). In 1929, Lena married Leo "Dutch" Lang (1910-1994), well known for his locker business in Table Rock.
Here's the family with five children -- the youngest, Alma, must not have been born. This picture was in the front of an album of photos taken by Lou Fencl when he was a young man working at the Burow Brothers filling station in Table Rock. Here is father Frank -- his nickname was "Rubber Neck" according to several, including "Table Rock Bob" Blecha. Here he presents himself as a typical Czech family man -- a bottle of beer, a nice car, and a Nebraska pennant to boot. Based on age, and assuming that Alma, #6, had not been born, and assuming that the taller boys are the older boys, then in the back would be Jess, Lena, George, & Lou, with Elsie in front.
Frank L. & Mattie Fencl & children at a school picnic in 1913.
Country School, District 51, Last day of school picnic, 1912-1913. Mrs. Frank Fencl -- Mattie -- is standing, third from left. Elsie Fencl is sixth from the right. Alma Fencl is eighth from the left, the first girl in the row. This photo is labeled as both Photo 384 and 533.
more fencl things
May 1920 Table Rock Argus:
June 20, 1957
