BLAHNIK Family From Bohemia (Czech Republic)

(Modern coat of arms)

Death Certificates - Winnebago County

Frank Blahnik son of George and Anna (Sticka) Blahnik

Marie Holub, wife of Frank Blahnik

Death certificates for the twins June Rose and Jeanette Marie Blahnik born 8/15/1925.  Jeanette died 9/27/1925 and June Rose died 1/8/1926.  There was not enough milk and there were problems finding a formula for Jeanette to tolerate.
The children were buried in unmarked graves in adjoining cemeteries - Oak Hill and St. Pats in Neenah, WI.  Their father, Richard, always alleged that when they put Highway 41 in, that they went over the children's graves.  In 2000 their sister Bette (Blahnik) Nickasch went in search of their graves and neither cemetery had any record of their burials there.  Bette remembered that there were a few rows of baby graves that had no permanent markers.  Bette remembered that "Baby Bodway" was buried next to one of their sisters but the cemetery has no record of this either.  Indeed at the bottom right of both these death certicates it indicates they were indeed buried in those cemeteries - Bette said there was a small roadway between the two cemeterys and the two graves were not a great distance apart. Perhaps Richard's claim that 41 went over the graves is not so far fetched after all.