Graveside services for Frank Joseph Volek, 90, Lawrence, will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Highland Park Cemetery, Kansas City, Kan.
Mr. Volek died Saturday, Jan. 5, 2002, at his home of lung cancer.
He was born Aug. 6, 1911, in Palisade, Colo., the son of Joze and Raza Volek. He was reared in Ringo, near Girard. He graduated from Girard High School in 1930 and attended Kansas State University and University of Tulsa.
Mr. Volek worked as a refrigeration technician in southeast Kansas and Detroit. He served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps, and then worked as an engineer for Fluor Corp., Kansas City, Mo., and for Stone and Webster Co., Boston.
He returned to Kansas City, Mo., in the early 1950s, and eventually went into private practice as a consulting mechanical engineer.
Mr. Volek retired in 1976 and went to work for the United States Agency for International Development in Panama for several years.
He was active during the 1960s and 1970s with Scout Troop 150 at St. Elizabeth's Church, Kansas City, Mo. He also worked with the troop at Jackson County home for boys. He assisted the Kansas City Area Council as a campmaster at Camp Powell and with the Exploring program. He assisted the council recently with equipment donations to H. Roe Bartle Scout Reservation.
He married Alicemary Dixon. She survives of the home.
Other survivors include two sons, Stephen F., Perry, Mich., and Thomas W., Lawrence; a daughter, Susan M. Volek, Alexandria, Va.; and two grandchildren.
The family suggests memorials to Tribe of Mic-O-Say at the Heart of America Council, 10210 Holmes Road, Kansas City, Mo. 64131.
Butler-Fulton-Nickel Funeral Home, Kansas City, Kan., is in charge of arrangements.
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