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Angeline Louise Koca

Female 1926 - 2015  (88 years)


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  • Name Angeline Louise Koca  [1, 2
    Born 25 Oct 1926  Saline County, Nebraska Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Gender Female 
    Died 19 Mar 2015  Geneva, Fillmore County, Nebraska Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Buried Bohemian National Cemetery (Milligan South), Milligan, Fillmore County, Nebraska Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Notes 
    • Obituary for Angeline L. Brunkow

      Funeral service for Angeline will be 10:00 a.m. Monday, March 23, 2015 at the Farmer & Son Funeral Home - Kotas Chapel in Milligan, Nebraska. Interment will be in the Bohemian National Cemetery. Public visitation will begin Sunday 1 pm until 8 pm with family greeting friends from 6 to 8 at the Chapel in Milligan, NE. Memorials are directed to the family for later designation.

      Angeline Louise (Koca) Brunkow, daughter of Louis and Alice Koca, was born October 25, 1926 on a farm in Saline County, Section 19, Atlanta Precinct, southeast of Milligan. She passed away at the age of 88 years at Heritage Crossings in Geneva, Nebraska on March 19, 2015.

      Angel attended District #83 through 8th grade. For the next four years she attended Milligan Public Schools, graduating as Class Valedictorian with the class of 1943. She continued her education at Lincoln School of Commerce. She worked for the U.S. Service Commission at Bruning and Fairmont Airbases, the Civil Service for the Veterans' Administration, Milligan Public Schools and Geneva Heritage. Angel married Claremont Brunkow in 1951. She loved music and loved to dance. She had a love for animals and the outdoors and spent a lot of hours gardening and caring for her flowers and trees.

      Angeline was preceded in death by her husband, Claremont Brunkow, parents, Louis and Alice Koca, sister, Dorothy Bunker and brother-in-law, James Bunker.

      She is survived by two sons, Lucian Brunkow, Keith and daughter-in-law Becky Brunkow, daughter, Lucinda Brunkow, grandchildren, Kyle Brunkow, Hillary and Richard Liddy, Evan and Julie Brunkow, Kendra Brunkow, great grandchildren, Colton and Hunter Brunkow, Kallie Clark, William Liddy, and Evan Michael Brunkow, Jr., and many nieces and nephews.

      (Courtesy of Dennis Belohlavy)
    Person ID I20387  Strong Family Tree
    Last Modified 4 Jul 2015 

    Father Louis Cyril Koca,   b. 10 Sep 1897, Atlanta Township, Saline County, Nebraska Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 13 Jun 1992, Geneva, Fillmore County, Nebraska Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 94 years) 
    Mother Alice Naimon,   b. 17 Jul 1901, Fillmore County, Nebraska Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 10 Oct 1956, Geneva, Fillmore County, Nebraska Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 55 years) 
    Married 8 Aug 1922  Wilber, Saline County, Nebraska Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    • Witnesses were Anna KOCA and John H. KOTAS and Mary KOCA and Adolph DLOUHY. (Milligan, p 341).
    Family ID F7103  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Claremont E. Brunkow,   b. 4 Nov 1920, Tobias, Saline County, Nebraska Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 30 May 2002, Tobias, Saline County, Nebraska Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 81 years) 
    Married 24 Apr 1951  [3
    • They were the parents of Lucian, Lucinda and Keith BRUNKOW. After Alice's death, Angeline and Claremont moved to the homeplace to look after Louis. In 1975, they purchased the farm from her father, and it has been in the family more than 100 years (Milligan, p 341).
    Last Modified 20 Oct 2011 
    Family ID F7293  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBorn - 25 Oct 1926 - Saline County, Nebraska Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 19 Mar 2015 - Geneva, Fillmore County, Nebraska Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBuried - - Bohemian National Cemetery (Milligan South), Milligan, Fillmore County, Nebraska Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S219] Milligan Centennial History Book Committee HISTORY OF MILLIGAN, NEBRASKA 1888-1988 (Walsworth Publishing, Marceline, MO), p 341 (Reliability: 3).

    2. [S548] Belohlavy, Dennis (belohdb@windstream.net) "Family Tree of Dennis L. and Rebecca J. "Becky" (Arnold) Belohlavy ; http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=belohlavy, (http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=belohlavy).

    3. [S26] Milligan Centennial History Book Committee, "Milligan Nebraska 1988-2008, Centennial Supplement Book", p. 121 (Reliability: 3).