Victor Kalcik

1900 - 1967  (66 years)

• Name	Victor Kalcik
  Born	16 Apr 1900	Silver Lake, Shawnee County, Kansas
  Gender	Male
  Died	8 Feb 1967	Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas
  Buried	11 Feb 1967	Czech-Moravian Cemetery, Rossville, Shawnee County, Kansas
  Person ID	I4301	Rossville
  Last Modified	1 Nov 2017

  
  

  Father	Vaclav (Slavna) Kalcik,   b. 15 Jun 1857, Prague, Bohemia, Moravia ,   d. 6 Nov 1918, Silver Lake, Shawnee County, Kansas  (Age 61 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Kalcik,   b. 1860, Bohemia, Moravia ,   d. 14 Jan 1933, Silver Lake, Shawnee County, Kansas  (Age 73 years)
  Married	1882
  Family ID	F5474	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  Born - 16 Apr 1900 - Silver Lake, Shawnee County, Kansas Buried - 11 Feb 1967 - Czech-Moravian Cemetery, Rossville, Shawnee County, Kansas  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Documents		Obituary- Kalcik, Victor 1 Victor Kalcik Victor Kalcik, 66, of Silver Lake died Wednesday night in a Topeka nursing home. He was born April 16, 1900, north of Silver Lake. He had lived in Silver Lake since 1961, moving there from Richland. He was a farmer in Shawnee, Jackson and Osage counties. Survivors include two brothers, Ed Kalcik of Scranton and Joe Kalcik of Silver Lake; and four sisters, Mrs. Mary Vacek of Glen Elder, Mrs. Christina Saia of Delia, Mrs. Ann Saia of Emmett, and Mrs. Emma Finstad of Silver Lake. Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at Parker Mortuary, with burial to be in Czech Cemetery north of Rossville. Memorial contributions may be made to the Shawnee County Unit of the American Cancer Society.
  		Obituary- Kalcik, Victor 2 Farmer’s Will is challenged by relatives When Victor Kalcik, a 66-year- old Berryton farmer, died of cancer Feb. 2, few persons imagined his estate would amount to much. His last wishes, to be buried “in the Kalcik family lot in the Czech Cemetery north of Rossville” with a grave marker “of the same size and kind as my brother Albert’s,” were carried out after a modest funeral. He had lived all his life in Kansas, farming with Albert, a nephew, Victor Saia, recalled. “Neither of them ever married. They had lived with my grandmother in Rossville where they were born, until she died in 1933. “Then they went on their own, partners, you might say, in ev-erything they did,” Saia said. Farmed, Raised Cattle “My Uncle Vic more or less went along with what Uncle Albert wanted to do. They farmed and raised cattle mostly.” In 1980, at the age of 65, Albert died. Just about everything he owned, Saia said, passed to his life-long business partner, his brother, Victor. “It was all really just their’s. They had started from scratch together.” On Feb. 21, about three weeks after Victor’s death, his will was filed in Shawnee County Probate Court. Apparently the second such instrument he had had executed, Victor Kalcik’s last will and testament listed an estate estimate to be worth in excess of $210,000. Though he was one of eight children—most of whom were married and had several children and grandchildren—Victor Kalcik chose to leave the bulk of his property to two sisters and two Topeka charitable organizations. He named nephew Victor Saia executor of the estate. Sold Holdings Not too long after his brother died, Victor Kalcik sold off most of the holdings, the nephew said. “His cancer was discovered about seven years ago and he decided to retire. He built himself a nice little home out in Silver Lake, up amongst the friends he had known all his life. It was completed about four years ago. It’s really a shame he didn’t get to enjoy it more. “But, he had gone along with Uncle Albert,” Saia said. “Albert used to say he just liked making money and saving it— like women like to sew or go shopping.” Saia said he could not recall either uncle ever travelling much. “I used to think Uncle Vic ought to take some of what he had saved and travel. Just go out and enjoy himself a little bit, but he was happy where he was.” Will Challenged Now the will has been challenged. A suit filed Thursday in Shawnee County District Court, actually the protestations of several relatives not named in the will which had been filed in Probate Court, claims Victor Kalcik was not mentally competent when he directed the final distribution of his property. The action asks the court to decide if Victor Kalcik’s will is to stand as filed or to find, as claimed, Kalcik was under duress and not able to understand what he was doing when he authored the instrument. There apparently is no question of the will’s authenticity. It directed the home in Silver, Lake and $10,000 cash to go to Mrs. Emma Finstad, a sister in Silver Lake. Another sister, Mrs. Christina [handwritten note said Anna] Saia of Emmett, was to receive $20,000. $160,000 to Charities The bulk of the remainder was to go to Capper’s Foundation for Crippled Children and Topeka chapter of the Salvation Army. The two charities were to split about $160,000. Under a former will, however, Victor’s sisters, Mrs. Mary Vacek of Glen Elder and Mrs. Anna Saia (who married Mrs. Christina Saia’s husband’s brother) and his brothers, Joe Kalcik of Mayetta and Ed Kalcik of Scranton, all were to receive shares of the estate. Also mentioned previously were a nephew, Theodore A. Fleck of Wakefield and three grandnieces, Mrs. Patricia Bender, Mrs. Julia Peters and the former Barbara Smerchek whose married name is not known.