Joseph Zemak

Funeral Services were held 10:30 A.M., Saturday, December 15, 1990 at Higby Mortuary. Interment was held in the Aurora Catholic Cemetery.

OBITUARY: Joseph Zemak

Joseph Thomas Zemak, born to Polish immigrants, Jacob Thomas and Frances Leschinsky Zemak, September 18, 1905, in Thomaston, Ct. where he was educated and grew to manood, in the Roman Catholic Faith. He died, December 10, 1990 at the VA Medical Center Grand Island.

He entered the Army in 1925, and served in the Panama Canal Zone until his discharge in 1928. He rejoined the military by enlisting in the Navy in 1929, and stationed aboard the USS Marblehead. He met and married Ariel M. Raoch in Whittier, Ca. March 18, 1933. After his discharge in 1933, he spent the Depression years in Grand Island, where, among other jobs, he worked at the Glovera Ball Room, and in Thomaston for the WPA, and as a policeman.

In the early 1940’s he worked as a Singer Sewing Machine Repairman, a factory worker at Scovill’s, and a commuter bus driver for the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad in Waterbury, Ct. Then moving to Nebraska in 1946, and settling in Marquette, he was employed with Diamond Engineering and Cornhusker Ordinance Plant in Grand Island, managed the Marquette Lumber Yard, did self contracting carpentry, helped part time in the Marquette Grocery Store, operated a road maintainer for Hamilton County, and retired from HY-Mark, near Henderson, in 1977. After retirement, he was employed as a butcher at Jim’s Foods in Aurora, and the Co-op Elevator in Marquette.

Survived by one brother Raymond Zemak, Hemet, Ca. Two sisters, Helen Komarnsky Cheshire, Ct. and Victoria Banknell, Baltimore, Md. Two daughters Mrs. Jack (LaVonne) Flohr and Mrs. Francis (Bonita) Paup, both of Marquette, three grandchildren and two great grandchildren.

Proceeded in death by his parents, his wife, an infant daughter, one brother and two sisters.