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Obituary for John Benjamin Salek
4 December 1910 - 4 August 1992
From the Idaho Press-Tribune
Wednesday, 5 August 1992 page 10A
Contributed by Dan Fowler
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John B. Salek |
John B. Salek, 81, of Nampa, died Tuesday, Aug. 4, 1992, at a Nampa hospital. Vigil services will be
celebrated at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 6, at Persons-Flahiff
Funeral Chapel, Nampa, by the Rev. Father
Paul Mathews, S.M., as celebrant. Mass of Christian Burial
will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Friday, Aug. 7, at
St. Paul's Catholic Church,
Nampa, by Father Mathews. Burial will
follow at Mount Calvary
Cemetery.
Mr. Salek was born
Dec. 4, 1910, in Chicago, Ill.,
a son of Rudolph Salek and Anne Petrouse Salek. He received
his education in Chicago and during his
early teens, moved to Tindall, So. Dak., where he farmed with
his family until moving to
Nampa
in the early 1930s. He owned and operated Sunset Market along
with his father and two brothers. John married Violet M.
Hejlik on Jan. 26, 1937, in Nampa. He entered the U.S.
Army. Nov. 11, 1943, and served in New Guinea from June, 1944, until
the war's end. He was awarded the American Theater of
Operations and the Asiatic Pacific Theater Service Ribbons and
the Good Conduct Medal and Victory Medal. He was discharged
Jan. 24, 1946, and returned to Nampa
where he continued at Sunset Market until and the early 1950s
when he and his brother, Rudy, opened the Lone Star Market in Nampa. He remained there as a meat cutter
until the early 1970s when he retired to work and live on his
beloved farm on the outskirts of
Nampa. Mrs. Salek died Jan. 12, 1989.
John was a member
of St. Paul's Catholic Church;
of Colonel Stotsenberg Post No. 3465, Veterans of Foreign
Wars; of Nampa Lodge No. 1389, B.P.O.E. and of several Square
Dance clubs in the
Nampa
area. He was an avid hunter and fisherman.
Survivors include a
son and daughter-in-law, John, Jr. and Dixie Salek of Nampa;
three daughters and two sons-in-law, Sharon and Larry Seibold
and Susan and Virgil Massengale, all of Nampa, and Judy
Eskridge of Boise; a sister, Mary Tycz Nampa; twelve
grandchildren, Debbie Salek, Julie Brown, Laura Stilwell and
her husband, Keith, Steve Seibold and his wife, Dee Dee, Dayna
Jennings and her husband, Matt, Lynn Seibold and his wife,
Jackie, Cpl. Eric Salskov, USMC, Teresa Salskov, Jonni
Mansfield and her husband, Rich, David Massengale, Cory
Eskridge and Jon Massengale; ten great- grandchildren and
several nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his
parents, two brothers and an infant daughter.
Memorials may be
made to the Hospice Service c/o Mercy Medical Center,
Nampa; to the
Mountain States Tumor Institute,
307 East Hawaii Ave., Nampa 83686; or flowers may be sent.
Friends may call
until 9 p.m. today and 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Thursday at
Persons-Flahiff Funeral Chapel, Nampa, and meet at the
church on Friday for services. |
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