.sroz girratb Official Or g an Of The Slavonic Benevolent Order Of The State Of Texas, Founded 1897.
VOLUME 60 — NO. 7
BROTHERHOOD
HUMANITY
BENEVOLENCE
Postmaster: Please Send Form 3579 with Undeliverable Copies to: SUPREME LODGE SPJST, P.O. Box 100, TEMPLE, TEX. 76501
FEBRUTRY 16, 1972
FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK plies to all of the Cechoslovak Publishing Co. personnel. • SOMETHING WHICH WAS PRECIOUS IS GONE We do not claim the right to enshrine another mortal, and this least of all would our mother have desired. She would have wanted it said, we believe, that she well knew the pressures of pride and vanity, the sting of bitterness and defeat, the sense of accomplishment, the gray days of despair and pain and personal anguish. But she clung to life with confident expectation in a better future.
Going Home — Going home, I am going home. So begins the composition by Antonin Dvorak, "Going Home." Yes, she went home. The most beloved treasure a person can possess on this earth — your mother. Friday, February 11 . . . your editor sits at his desk to write. He sets aside all notes and decides to write what he has most pressing on his mind. This morning, at 7:20 a.m., mother breathed her last breath. She was living at the S.P.J.S.T. Rest Home No. I in Taylor. Yes, Theresa (Terezie) Sefcik, our beloved mother, said farewell to us all. She had been in a coma for some time. Naturally, we are grateful to Dr. Marvin Lesikar, a true fraternalist and our Supreme Lodge medical director who took care of mother and informed us that she felt no pain because of her coma. Dr. M. L. Lesikar, a true fraternalist who shows his fraternalism by his deeds and not merely expresses it in words! We also wish to thank all of the personnel at the S.P.J.S.T. Rest Home- in Taylor for their loving and fraternal care they gave our mother for the entire time that she stayed there. My two sisters, Agnes and Lydia, and I, and our families value this most sincerely. Also thanks to all of our many fraternal friends for their condolences and expressions of sympathy in any and every way conveyed. Most certain' y , a very sincere and heartfelt
GEORGE WASHINGTON . . . Father of His Country expression of gratitude to SPJST Honorary President Edward L. Merck for his most appropriately fraternal service and eulogy which came sincerely from his heart. It was most appropriate and just what mother would have desired. I, personally, wish to thank my two most understanding sisters for their diligent care for and understanding of my duties with the Vestnik and their taking care of so many of the details which had to be taken care of in Taylor and Houston. That also ap-
Memory, a, wise man once said, is a fable — a story with a moral. And so our small words here today are as nothing against the vital living memory of her good works. Our mother would have turned aside many a testimonial she is gating today and gently asked us to continue with the more serious problems of life. Her journeys are over now, and remembrance begins. She was an exceptional woman whose lucid and luminous -faith testified always for sanity in an Insane time and for hope in a time of -obscure hope — a woman who spoke for the good toward which man aspires in a world which has seen too much evil of which man is capable. One has the melancholy sense that when she knew death was at hand, she was contemplating not what she