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Source - Year: 1930; Census Place: New Oregon, Howard, Iowa; Roll: 659; Page: 4A; Enumeration District: 14; Image: 157.0; FHL microfilm: 2340394.

Miss Elsie Komarek, 609½ Commercial street, Waterloo, daughter of Mrs. Anna Komarek of Protivan, became the bride of Erwin Ford. 1017 Washington street. Cedar Falls, son of the Edward Fords of Waucoma, at 9 o'clock Tuesday morning.

The double ring service occurred in Holy Trinity Catholic church here before an altar decorated with summer flowers. Mrs. Edward Svoboda was organist.

The bride wore a nylon marquisette gown with a square neckline, pointed sleeves and tiers of lace ornamenting the skirt and train. Her fingertip veil of silk illusion net fell from a crown of orange blossoms and she carried a colonial bouquet of red roses.

Mrs. Wilmer Lukes, sister of the bride, served as matron of honor in lavender nylon marquisette over satin. Her colonial bouquet was also fashioned of red roses Mrs. James Kosatka, sister of the groom was bridesmaid in a yellow marquisette gown with an identical bouquet.

Evelyn Ford of Waucoma, sister of the bride; David Kosatka, the groom's nephew, and Marie Jane Pecinovsky of Cresco were flower girl and boy and ring bearer respectively. Wilmer Lukes, brother in-law of the bride, was best man and usher was James Kosatka, the groom's brother-in-law.

One hundred fifty attended the reception in Protivin gymnasium. The three-tiered cake was topped with figures of a miniature bride and groom.

Following a wedding trip in the west, the couple will live in Waterloo. The bride has been a waitress at Friedl's Coffee shop there and the groom is a mechanic in Cedar Falls. He attended trade schools in Lansing, Mich, and Chicago.

Source - Waterloo Daily Courier - Jul 12, 1949

Elsie Marie Ford, 85, of Cedar Falls, died Saturday, Oct. 4, at UnityPoint Health-Allen Hospital in Waterloo.

She was born May 12, 1929, in Protivin, daughter of Joseph and Anna Pizinger Komarek. She married Erwin Ford on July 12, 1949, in Protivin. He preceded her in death on July 27, 1999.

Elsie was a 1947 graduate of Rudolphinum High School in Protivin.

Survived by: six sons, Dale (Heidi) of Eagan, Minn., Roy (Tina), Danny (Nancy), Randy (Sheila K.) and Darwin, all of Cedar Falls, and Roland (Sheila M.) of Denver; two daughters, Julie Baker of Cedar Falls and Jolene (Bob) Pierson of Waterloo; 17 grandchildren, 20 great-grandchildren and five great-great-grandchildren.

Preceded in death by: her parents; a daughter, Linda Ford; two great-grandsons; two sisters, Georgene Pecinovsky and Marcie Lukes; and a son-in-law, George Baker.

Services: 10 a.m. Thursday at St. Patrick Catholic Church, with burial at Greenwood Cemetery, both in Cedar Falls. Visitation will be 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday at Dahl-Van Hove-Schoof Funeral Home, where a 4:30 p.m. rosary service and a 7 p.m. vigil service will be conducted. Visitation also for an hour before services at the church.

Memorials: may be directed to the family.

Condolences may be left at www.DahlFuneralHome.com.

Source - WCF Courier - Oct 7, 2014

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