Ben Bouzek and Violet Hansen Bouzek obituaries

Rites Friday in Highmore for B. Bouzek

Ben Martin Bouzek, 76, of Highmore, died May 10, 1976, in St. John's Regional Medical Center in Huron, following a lingering illness. Mr. Bouzek was well-known in Hyde County.

Funeral Services will be held at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon in Highmore, with the Rev. Wm. Meile officiating. Burial will be in the National Bohemian Cemetery. Visitation hours are from 2 to 9 p.m. Thursday, at the Funeral Home in Highmore.

Mr. Bouzek was born in Hyde County and spent his entire life in Eden Township north Hyde County on a farm. He was married to Violet Hansen of Onida and they were the parents of three children.

Surviving are his widow, two sons, Wayne, Rapid City, and Eugene, San Jose, California and one daughter, Edith, South Pasadena, California; three sisters, Mrs. Mayme Kopecky, Highmore, Mrs. Emma Huff, Bonner;s Ferry, Idaho, and Mrs. Frances Hall, Gettysburg, SD. There are also four grandchildren.
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Violet E. Bouzek

Highmore--Violet E. Bouzek, 88, Highmore, died Sunday, March 31, 1996 at Black Hills Retirement Center in Rapid City.

She was born December 25, 1907, in Sully County, to Hans Hansen and Lucille Blackmer Hansen. On February 14, 1928, she married Benjamin Bouzek in Miller.

She was educated in the Sully County public schools. She attended two years of high school in Onida before attending high school in Gettysburg, where she was able to earn a teaching certificate in her senior year. She taught in northern Hyde County for several years.

After their marriage, they made their home and farmed in northern Hyde County. She was active in rural Home Extension, Garden Club and 4-H clubs. For several years, she ran an extension of the Hyde County library out of her home. She was a member of the Methodist church in Highmore.

Survivors include two sons, Wayne and Leora Bouzek, Rapid City, and Eugene and Annette Bouzek of San Jose, California; one daughter, Edith Bouzek, Sacramento, California; four grandchildren; one sister-in-law, Mayme Kopecky, Highmore, and many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Ben, in 1976, her parents and three sisters.