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Lodge 28, East Bernard Member Hilda Blahuta Celebrates 100th Birthday
On Saturday, December 10, 2011, after, lived in a young woman’s home family and friends gathered to cele- and worked in Houston. brate Hilda Blahuta’s 100th birthday! When she was in her early 20s, she Matilda “Hilda” Luedeke was born met Alphonse Blahuta of Krasna on a December 5, 1911, to Adolf and Lilly double date at a dance in Rosenberg. Luedeke. Hilda was born at the They soon married on August 23, Luedeke’s home near Moulton, Texas, 1933. They had no time for a fancy and was the eldest of five children. wedding, so they went to the Justice of Ella was the secthe Peace. ond, then Adolf, Alphonse had to Lillian, and last hurry home to was Eddie. pick cotton and get Hilda lived in back to work at the Moulton then Halbarber shop. They lettsville until she didn’t know they was of school age. had to wait three Her parents days after getting wanted to move their marriage libecause the walk cense until being that Hilda would married though. have to make to Also, they had no school was far and time for a honeythey didn’t like it. moon! The family then They moved purchased a farm to Wallis where Al near Pleak, Texas, could work at the just on the out- Hilda Blahuta of Lodge 28, East barber shop, and skirts of Rosen- Bernard sits in her rocking chair Hilda became a berg. Starting that was a wedding gift to her par- homemaker. It ents and which she was rocked in school, all Hilda as a baby. was hard times for knew how to speak the young couple, was German, so she had a lot of learn- especially when the Depression hit. ing to do. She was able to teach her Hilda spent a lot of time sewing parents and siblings at home how to clothes for her and Alphonse to wear, speak English. She went to school in baking fresh homemade bread every Pleak until seventh grade. After that, day, and spending some nights at the she had to stay at home to help take barber shop with Alphonse and his care of her younger siblings. As a brother Emil. She also had to learn teenager, Hilda worked at a diner in Czech since that was all her in-laws Rosenberg. Later, Hilda was able to attend business school in Houston, and Continued on Page 6.
Important Dates ...................................3 Interest Rates.......................................3 Job Posting..........................................3 State Tournament Information............7 Sales Class Training ...........................7 Lodge Section......................................8
Brotherhood
SPJST Salutes Longtime Members 50-Year • 75-Year • Age 96 • Age 100 Pages 4 to 6 Congratulations and Thank You, Members!
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Inside This Week’s Vestnik
Cookbook Order Form .....................15 Vestnik Valentines .............................16 Youth Section ....................................17 Czech Culture ....................................20 Advertisements..................................21 Lodge Calendar .................................22
January 11, 2012
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Lodge 28 East Bernard member donates old Vestniks, books
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Lodge 97 Placedo retiring sales agent honored
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Lodge 219 El Paso shares agent Christmas party scenes