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Courtesy of Svoboda Family 2004
James P. Svoboda lived and maintained a funeral home in
Weston, Nebraska with his son Milo E. Svoboda who became a licensed funeral
director in 1934.
In September 1949, Milo purchased the Janda & Koch Funeral Home located at
211 N. Linden Street, Wahoo, Nebraska and renamed it Svoboda Funeral Home.
At the time of the purchase, Milo, his wife, Lucille, and two sons, Thomas
and James moved into the Svoboda Funeral Home where they raised their four
children.
After attending college, Jim graduated from the Dallas Institute of Mortuary
Science and joined his father as a funeral director.
This established a “first” for the state of Nebraska, three generations of
actively licensed funeral directors. James P. Svoboda passed
away in 1971, leaving Milo and his son, Jim, to carry on until Milo’s death
in 1982.
In 1984, Jim and his wife Carlene purchased Marcy Mortuary in
Ashland and maintained both funeral homes until recently when they sold
their funeral homes on May 27, 2004 to Don and Lois Fick.
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