3) Mary Mezera 05 Sept 1892 - 20 Dec 1962
& Edward Frank Konichek 07 Apr 1886 - 04 Aug 1953
A chart taking Mary (Mezera) Konichek back three more generations
1) Tomas Mezera & Rosealie (Pepril) Zelenka m1827 2) Matej (Mathias II) Mezera & Josefa (Josephine) Fuka m1866
3) Frank Mezera & Anna Chvatal m 1891 *4) Mary Mezera & Edward Frank Konichek m 1913
5) Leo Konichek & Dorothy(Clark) Konichek m 1940 6) My brother Floyd Francis & Susan Andre (Meyer) m 1962
1) Tomas Mezera & Rosealie (Pepril) Zelenka m1827 2) Matej (Mathias II) Mezera & Josefa (Josephine) Fuka m1866
3) Frank Mezera & Anna Chvatal m 1891 *4) Mary Mezera & Edward Frank Konichek m 1913
5) Leo Konichek & Dorothy(Clark) Konichek m 1940 6) My brother Floyd Francis & Susan Andre (Meyer) m 1962
photo of Mary Mezera and back of photo
photo of Mary & Edward's home that my mom Dorothy Konichek (age 94) sketched for me
I remember the kitchen & living room but not the bedrooms, summer kitchen, or back coat closet/food pantry
note: I thought it was interesting that the bedrooms were long with several beds in each and that Mary & Edward's/girls bedroom was on the south side of the living room and the long bedroom for the boys with several beds was on the north side of the living room. Myself & my sister Mary remember the huge wood stove in the southwest corner of the kitchen but our older siblings (Carolyn/Floyd/Donna) remember moms map as being the correct one with the stove on the west wall with a cabinet in the southwest corner of the kitchen. In fact my mom said that dad (Leo) had refinished that kitchen cabinet for Mary after Edward died and she was so pleased how it turned out. Note also no indoor bathroom. The outhouse was north of the home, west of the barn.
I remember rocking with my Grandma Konichek, her in one rocking chair and I in a rocking chair next to her just south of the trap door in the living room which was just as you walked into the living room from the kitchen but with a large rug covering it. I just remember seeing the trap door up once but I do not remember going down there.
I remember playing cards with Grandma Konichek also and thought her hair was short until one day I arrived in the morning (instead of the afternoon) and she had her hair down to her knees in back. This surprised me as I had always seen her hair curled up on top of her head and it didn't seem to take up that much volume up on her head.
photo of Mary & Edward's home that my mom Dorothy Konichek (age 94) sketched for me
I remember the kitchen & living room but not the bedrooms, summer kitchen, or back coat closet/food pantry
note: I thought it was interesting that the bedrooms were long with several beds in each and that Mary & Edward's/girls bedroom was on the south side of the living room and the long bedroom for the boys with several beds was on the north side of the living room. Myself & my sister Mary remember the huge wood stove in the southwest corner of the kitchen but our older siblings (Carolyn/Floyd/Donna) remember moms map as being the correct one with the stove on the west wall with a cabinet in the southwest corner of the kitchen. In fact my mom said that dad (Leo) had refinished that kitchen cabinet for Mary after Edward died and she was so pleased how it turned out. Note also no indoor bathroom. The outhouse was north of the home, west of the barn.
I remember rocking with my Grandma Konichek, her in one rocking chair and I in a rocking chair next to her just south of the trap door in the living room which was just as you walked into the living room from the kitchen but with a large rug covering it. I just remember seeing the trap door up once but I do not remember going down there.
I remember playing cards with Grandma Konichek also and thought her hair was short until one day I arrived in the morning (instead of the afternoon) and she had her hair down to her knees in back. This surprised me as I had always seen her hair curled up on top of her head and it didn't seem to take up that much volume up on her head.
Dorothy (Clark) Konichek memories: Mary was not feeling well (after Edward had died) so I invited my mother-in-law to stay at our home. She stayed with us for 3 weeks and really enjoyed herself.
Mary made potato dumplings and sourkraut AND an apple pie EVERY Sunday. That what she did when she came home from St. Johns church. Every Sunday night she'd sit and cut up her homemade soap so she'd have soap to do her wash on Mondays. She had a wood stove out in the summer kitchen (side porch) to have hot water to use in her wash machine (also in the summer kitchen). The summer porch was on the north side of the house facing the barn that still stands (the barn had fire wood for the two wood stoves). There was a front door on the east side of the house where it was hot and a window on the west side of the house by the main wood stove where it would get even hotter.
As you walked into the north side of her home you entered the summer kitchen with the wood stove on the right (west) wall and the wash machine on the south wall near the wood stove,with a rinse tub on the west side of the wash machine. Straight ahead was the kitchen with a huge table in it. The main wood stove was on the west wall of the kitchen with a beautiful cabinet in the southwest corner. Through a little doorway by the cabinet going south was a fruit cellar on the right (west side) and a coat/boot room to the left. If you turned left as you walked in the kitchen was the living room with a trap door under a large rug in the floor as you entered. As you entered the living room on the left (north) was the largest bedroom with Raymond's bed on the summer kitchen side (west) and Leo's bed on the east side (front of the house with the street) and a tall black storage cabinet for hanging clothes. On the south side of the living room (had to walk through the living room past the rocking chair on the right) was another long bedroom with Edward/Mary's bed on the right (west) as you entered and the girls beds on the left (east) with a window to the front of the house (road side). Edward would come home from working at the boiler room at Campion High School all night and Mary and the girls would have to get out of their bedroom so he could sleep.
Edward and Mary would go out to Mary's grandpa Frank Mezera for the meat where they would butcher the meat out on that farm. Leo would stay upstairs in grandpa Frank Mezera's house and would have to wear his winter coat and stocking cap as snow would come through the cracks in the roof. This is when Leo Konichek was young. You would take the Irish Ridge road (at the top of the Mondel Hill) to Buske Hollow and turn to Grandpa Frank Mezers's at the top of the Buske Hollow road yet.
Mary had a 3rd grade education and Edward would cry for his mother because he missed her so much after she died.
Just off the summer kitchen was a pump hole (well) with shallow water in it where they would put snapping turtles they caught until they needed a turtle to eat when they'd go out and get one. (handy idea)
I miss Grandma Konichek so much, I wish she was here.
Note: All this was typed on 8/23/2017 by Paul Michael Konichek (born 1952) as he interviewed his mother (Dorothy Konichek) in the nursing home. Dorothy is 94 years old currently and working on the geneology of the Konichek side.
Mary made potato dumplings and sourkraut AND an apple pie EVERY Sunday. That what she did when she came home from St. Johns church. Every Sunday night she'd sit and cut up her homemade soap so she'd have soap to do her wash on Mondays. She had a wood stove out in the summer kitchen (side porch) to have hot water to use in her wash machine (also in the summer kitchen). The summer porch was on the north side of the house facing the barn that still stands (the barn had fire wood for the two wood stoves). There was a front door on the east side of the house where it was hot and a window on the west side of the house by the main wood stove where it would get even hotter.
As you walked into the north side of her home you entered the summer kitchen with the wood stove on the right (west) wall and the wash machine on the south wall near the wood stove,with a rinse tub on the west side of the wash machine. Straight ahead was the kitchen with a huge table in it. The main wood stove was on the west wall of the kitchen with a beautiful cabinet in the southwest corner. Through a little doorway by the cabinet going south was a fruit cellar on the right (west side) and a coat/boot room to the left. If you turned left as you walked in the kitchen was the living room with a trap door under a large rug in the floor as you entered. As you entered the living room on the left (north) was the largest bedroom with Raymond's bed on the summer kitchen side (west) and Leo's bed on the east side (front of the house with the street) and a tall black storage cabinet for hanging clothes. On the south side of the living room (had to walk through the living room past the rocking chair on the right) was another long bedroom with Edward/Mary's bed on the right (west) as you entered and the girls beds on the left (east) with a window to the front of the house (road side). Edward would come home from working at the boiler room at Campion High School all night and Mary and the girls would have to get out of their bedroom so he could sleep.
Edward and Mary would go out to Mary's grandpa Frank Mezera for the meat where they would butcher the meat out on that farm. Leo would stay upstairs in grandpa Frank Mezera's house and would have to wear his winter coat and stocking cap as snow would come through the cracks in the roof. This is when Leo Konichek was young. You would take the Irish Ridge road (at the top of the Mondel Hill) to Buske Hollow and turn to Grandpa Frank Mezers's at the top of the Buske Hollow road yet.
Mary had a 3rd grade education and Edward would cry for his mother because he missed her so much after she died.
Just off the summer kitchen was a pump hole (well) with shallow water in it where they would put snapping turtles they caught until they needed a turtle to eat when they'd go out and get one. (handy idea)
I miss Grandma Konichek so much, I wish she was here.
Note: All this was typed on 8/23/2017 by Paul Michael Konichek (born 1952) as he interviewed his mother (Dorothy Konichek) in the nursing home. Dorothy is 94 years old currently and working on the geneology of the Konichek side.