Clarence J. Spevacek, 72, of Route 2, Two Rivers, died early Thursday morning,
Sept. 6, at Memorial Hospital, Manitowoc.
Funeral services will be 10 a.m. Saturday at Lambert Funeral Home and 10:30 a.m.
at Holy Cross Catholic Church, Mishicot. The Rev. Earl Brouchoud will officiate
and burial will be in the parish cemetery.
Mr. Spevacek was born Oct. 12, 1906, in the Town of Mishicot, son of the late
Vit and Anna Dufeck Spevacek. He was graduated from Mishicot High School in 1924,
attended University of Wisconsin-Madison and in 1927 attended Crane College in
Chicago. He married Margaret Eller June 25, 1930, at Holy Cross Catholic Church,
Mishicot, and settled on the Eller Homestead. He was employed in the floor
covering department in several stores in the area until 1938, when he established
his own business on 23rd and Adams Street in Two Rivers. In 1951 he established
the Spevacek Floor Covering Shop in Manitowoc.
Mr. Spevacek's primary interests were educational and civic affairs. In 1949 he
was elected to serve as school board member of the newly consolidated Pine Grove
and Jefferson School Districts, and he was instrumental in helping to consolidate
schools into forming the Mishicot Community School System in 1956. He was elected
as a member Board of Education and a year later was elected treasurer, serving in
this capacity until the present time.
In 1958, Mr. Spevacek was appointed chairman of a class reunion for all graduates
of the old Mishicot High School, this reunion gave birth to the Mishicot Alumni
Association. In 1961, as president of this association, he helped establish a
perpetual scholarship fund. in (sic) 1947 he was appointed to the newly
established Park and Planning Commission of Manitowoc County, serving in several
official capacities until the present time.
He was a member and past trustee of Holy Cross Catholic Church and Holy Name
Society and charter member of Knights of Columbus Council 4807 of Mishicot and
Tisch Mills and a member of of (sic) ZCBJ Western Fraternal Life Association of
Two Rivers; Elks Lodge 1280 of Two Rivers; Fraternal Order of Eagles Aerie 3706;
Isaac Walton League of America, Manitowoc Lodge and Manitowoc Historical Society.
Survivors include his wife, Margaret, a son, John of Route 2, Two Rivers, a
daughter, Mrs. Jane Kaufman of Glendale Heights, Ill., a brother, Adolph Spevacek
of California and five grandchildren. An infant son, Robert, and a brother, Ben,
preceded him in death.
Friends may call at Lambert Funeral Home after 4 p.m. Friday, where a memorial
service will be at 7:30 p.m.
Herald Times Reporter, September 6, 1979 P. 3.