Janice Zakovec

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According to Caroline Mastney, she also married Dale (Robert?) Buchta on 17 Oct 1981, and they were the parents of Adam Richard Buchta, who was born and died on February 12, 1987.

Janice E. Leffers, 63 years, of Schuyler, Nebraska passed away February 5, 2017 at Fremont Health Medical Center. Janice was born February 13, 1953 in Fremont to Richard and Bernice (Tenopir) Zakovec.

Janice was raised in Morse Bluff and graduated North Bend High School in 1971. She then moved North West of Schuyler, NE. Janice attended Platte College in Columbus, NE for 2 years earning her L.P.N. She worked at several nursing homes in Schuyler, Wahoo, Columbus and Birchwood Manor at North Bend. She was later involved in home health care. Janice married Robert Leffers in December of 2000 in Schuyler, NE.

Janice was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church in Schuyler, Nebraska.

Survivors include her husband, Bob Leffers of Fremont; her mother, Bernice Conkling of North Bend; brother, Francis (JoAnn) Zakovec of Morse Bluff; several nieces and nephews.

Janice was preceded in death by her father; step-father; son, Adam Buchta, and uncle, Wilfred Tenopir.

Funeral Service will be 10:30 A.M., Wednesday, February 8, 2017 at Moser Memorial Chapel in North Bend. Pastor Bill Mattfeld will officiate. Visitation will be Tuesday, from 4-8 PM at Moser Memorial Chapel in North Bend. Burial will be at Maple Grove Cemetery Cedar Bluffs, Nebraska.

Memorials are to be directed to the family.

Janice married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Richard married Bernice M. Tenopir on 7 Feb 1953 in Logansport, Boone County, Iowa. Bernice (daughter of Harry Tenopir and Sylvia Brecka) was born on 9 Oct 1933 in Malmo, Saunders County, Nebraska; died on 14 May 2020 in Wahoo, Saunders County, Nebraska. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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WAHOO '96 Bernice M. Conkling, 86, of Wahoo, formerly North Bend, passed away Thursday, May 14, 2020 at the Saunders Medical Center Long Term Care in Wahoo. She was born Oct. 9, 1933 at Malmo to Harry and Sylvia (Brecka) Tenopir.

Bernice grew up near Cedar Bluffs and attended country school there. She married Richard Zakovec on Feb. 17, 1953. She then moved to the farm at Morse Bluff. She helped Richard farm for many years. After Richard's death in 1972 she started working at Campbell's Soup Co, Plumfield Nursery and the North Bend Post Office and cooked at the Rawhide Steakhouse in North Bend. Bernice married Frank Conkling Sept. 30, 1990. He died in 2000.

She is survived by son, Francis (JoAnn) Zakovec of Morse Bluff; grandchildren, Ryan (Brienna) Zakovec, Brent (Brook) Zakovec and Mike Albert and great-grandchildren, Haley, Dustin, Ashtynn, Kinsley, Grayden and Barrett Zakovec.


Bernice is preceded in death by her parents; both husbands; daughter, Janice Leffers; brother, Wilford Tenopir and grandson, Adam Buchta.

The funeral service will be 10:30 a.m., Monday, May 18, 2020 at Moser Memorial Chapel in North Bend. The Rev. Michael Hill of United Presbyterian Church in North Bend will officiate.


A COVID-controlled visitation will be held on Sunday from 5 to 7 p.m. also at Moser's.

Memorials have been established to Dodge County Humane Society.

Online condolences at www.mosermemorialchapels.com

Arrangements were made by Moser Memorial Chapel, North Bend.

(Courtesy of Dennis Belohlavy)

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Harry Tenopir buried Sept. 20

William Rolley officiated at the Sept. 20 funeral services for Henry (sic) Tenopir, 82, Fremont, at Moser Memorial Chapel. Burial was in Maple Grove Cemetery, Cedar Bluffs.

Pallbearers were John Hamilton, Francis Zakovec, Don Thomas, Rolland Zakovec, Adoph Tenopir and Frank Jirovsky.

The son of Albert and Anna Racek Tenopir, he was born March 7, 1907 in Geronimo, Oklahoma. On Feb. 3, 1931, he married Sylvia Brecka in Wahoo. Tenopier farmed at Morse Bluff and Cedar Bluffs. He moved to Cedar Bluffs in 1951 where he was assistant manager at the Farmers Union Grain Elevator. In 1973 he moved to Prague and in 1978 to Fremont.

Survivors include his wife, daughter Bernice Zakovec, North Bend; son, Wilfred, Fremont; brother, Henry, Geronimo, Okla.; grandson, Francis Zakovec, Morse Bluff; granddaughter, Mrs. John (Janice) Hamilton, Schuyler; two great-grandsons, Ryan and Brent Zakovec, North Bend.

He was preceded in death by four brothers; Louis, Edd, Emil and Bill; sister, Agnes Havlik, son-in-law, Richard Zakovec and a great-grandson, Adam Buchta.

(Undated, unreferenced newspaper clipping, courtesy of Caroline Mastny)

Harry married Sylvia Brecka on 3 Feb 1931 in Wahoo, Saunders County, Nebraska. Sylvia was born on 8 Jul 1910 in Prague, Saunders County, Nebraska; died on 1 Sep 1997 in Fremont, Dodge County, Nebraska. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Albert Tenopir is Buried Today

Native Bohemian Dies at Home of Daughter, Mrs. Frank Havlik

Albert Tenopir, 63 years of age, died at the home of his daughter Mrs. Frank Havlik, 2 1/2 miles south of Lawton yesterday afternoon at 3:35 o'clock following an illness of three months.

Mr. Tenopir was born in Bohemia, came to the United States and was naturalized over forty years ago, settling at wilber, Sanline county, Nebraska, coming to this community in 1911 and purchasing a farm near Geronimo.

Besides his wife and daughter, he is survived by six sons, Lewis, Emil and Harry of Morse Bluff, Neb. Edward, William, and Henry reside at the parental home.

Funeral services were held this afternoon at Ritter's chapel at 4 o'clock, Rev. Robert Ray, pastor of the Beal Heights Presbyterian church officiating.

Burial was made in Highland cemetery with Ritter's in charge. The many friends of the family sympathize with them in their bereavement.

(Undated, unreferenced clipping, courtesy of Caroline Mastny)

His death certificate, on file with the Oklahoma State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Comanche County, Lawton shows his father as A. Tenopir and his mother unknown. It appears to me that he is part of the Vaclav and Anna TENOPIR family of Saline County, Nebraska.

Albert married Anna Racek after 1889 in Milligan, Fillmore County, Nebraska. Anna (daughter of Vaclav "James" Racek and Veronika Beznoska) was born on 20 Dec 1873 in Morse Bluff, Saunders County, Nebraska; died on 31 Jul 1951 in Geronimo, Comanche County, Oklahoma. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Mrs. Anna Tenopir

Services for Mrs. Anna Tenopir, 77, who died at 7:30 am Tuesday at her home three miles southwest of Geronimo, will be held at 3 p.m. Thursday at Ritter Funeral Home chapel.

Lloyd Brent, Sixth and Arlington Church of Christ minister, will conduct services. Burial will be in the Highland cemetery.

Mrs. Tenopir died after an illness of four weeks. She came to the Geronimo community in 1927 from Morse Bluff, Neb.

She was born Dec, 20, 1873, in Saunders county, Neb. and was married to Albert Tenopir in Milligan, Neb. Mr. Tenopir died May 27, 1928. Mrs. Tenopir was a member of the Catholic Church in Milligan.

Survivors are six sons, Louis, Morse Bluff, Neb.; Harry, Cedar Bluff, Neb.; Emil, Malmo, Neb.; Bill, Tuscon, Ariz.; Edd, Lawton; and Henry, of the home address; one daughter, Mrs. Frank Havlik, Rt. 2 Lawton.

One brother, Will Racek, Morse Bluff, Neb.; three sisters, Mrs. John Vachal and Mrs. Emma Virka, both of Morse Bluff, Neb.; and Mrs. Joe Svec, Milligan, Neb; 13 grandchildren and two great grandchildren.

Mrs. Anna Tenopir

Services for Mrs. Anna Tenopir, who died Tuesday at her home in Geronimo, were held at 3 pm Thursday in the Ritter Funeral home chapel.

Lloyd Brent, pastor of the Sixth and Arlington Church of Christ, conducted the services and the commital rites at Highland cemetery.

Bearers were Joe Devine, Mack George, W.M. Pinc, Henry Mixa, Tom Kuchynka, and M.R. Dunlap.

(Undated, unreferenced clippings, courtesy of Caroline Mastny)

(Research):Census Information

Oklahoma, Comanche County, Crosby Twp
Enumerated April 11, 1930 by Lawrence DeVinell
ED 16-6 SD 8 Sheet 4A
71-78
Tenopir, Anna Hd F W 57 Wd Neb Czech Czech
Tenopir, Edward Son M W 28 S Neb Czech Czech
Tenopir, Will Son M W 26 S Okla Czech Czech
Tenopir, Henry SOn M w 19 S Okla Czech Czech

She was living a few households away from her cousin, Jame
s BEZNOSKA, also from Nebraska.