Frank J Kolbaba

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Obituary- Kolbaba, Frank

FRANK J. KOLBABA DIES
IN TOPEKA HOSPITAL
Private services for Frank J. Kolbaba of Prague, Nebraska, will be held today at 2:30 o’clock with cremation in the Mount Hope cemetery. He died Monday in a Topeka Hospital.

Mr. Kolbaba was born in Vysoke Myto, Czechoslovakia June 24, 1880. He was educated in violin in Prague, Czechoslovakia. He was married to Miss Emily Coufal in 1903 and the couple sailed for the United States on Christmas 1905 locating in Chicago, Illinois, where he opened a violin studio and taught there until 1908.

For ten years he taught music at Washburn College and did private teaching. He also held other teaching positions at Howard Payne College, Brownwood, Texas; Baylor College for Women in Belton, Texas; New Mexico Agricultural Mechanical College, Las Curses, New Mexico; and New Mexico State Teachers College, Silver City, New Mexico.

A former Topekan, Mr. Kolbaba made his home the last 27 years in Prague, Nebraska, where he taught music and held the position of village clerk.

His first wife preceded him in death. He is survived by his second wife, Mrs. Mary Kolbaba of Prague, Nebraska; two daughters, Mrs. Rudolph Krasny of Rossville, Kansas; Mrs. Tony Hromadka of Bell Buckle, Tennessee; one son. Emil Kolbaba of Carbondale, Kansas; three grandchildren, Miss Emily Hromadka of Bell Buckle, Tennessee, Mrs. Charles Martin of Silver Lake, Ks., and Mrs. Robert Harden of Rossville, Kansas; and eight great-grandchildren.