Flakus services

Mr. Flakus died Sunday, Jan. 26, 2003, at Wellsville Manor Nursing Facility.

He was born June 22, 1918, in Duncan, Neb., the son of Stanley and Anna (Kastilenda) Flakus. He lived in Duncan for several years before moving to Genoa, Neb. He moved to Wellsville in the late 1960s.

Mr. Flakus joined the U.S. Army in the late 1930s and served for two years. He was drafted into the Army Air Corps during World War II. He was honorably discharged in November 1945. He worked in a repair shop in Genoa after the war, and from 1946 to 1952, he worked in Pickstown, S.D., where he helped build Fort Randall Dam. He was a tractor mechanic in Scotland, S.D., from 1952 to 1966 and then worked for Adriance International Truck and Tractor in Wellsville until he retired in 1983.

He was a member of Assumption Catholic Church, Veterans of Foreign Wars in Ottawa and Wellsville American Legion.

He married Velma Kathryn Perkins on March 18, 1941, in Moorehead, Minn. She survives of the home.

Other survivors include four sons, Lawrence Jr., Wellsville, Richard, Anoka, Minn., Charles, Kansas City, Kan., and Eugene, Lawrence; four daughters, Sharon Haupt, Lawrence, Mary Arnett, Pomona, Patricia Jones, Greensburg, and Barbara Flakus, Overland Park; 18 grandchildren; and 18 great-grandchildren.

A daughter, Cecelia Flakus, died in 1956. Two grandchildren and a great-grandchild also died earlier.

Family will receive friends from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. today at Wilson’s Funeral Chapel in Wellsville, where a rosary will be read at 6 p.m. today.

The family suggests memorials be sent to the Lawrence Flakus Sr. Memorial Fund, sent in care of the funeral home, P.O. Box 486, Wellsville 66092.