MILLARD FRANK KRIVANEK OBITUARY Published July 3, 1994 © Daily Oklahoman
MILLARD FRANK KRIVANEK
1910-1994
Millard Frank Krivanek was born to Frank and Bessie Svejkovsky Krivanek on September 4, 1910, on a farm west of Oklahoma City.
He passed away July 1, 1994.
He attended grade school at Green School which was later named Mustang Valley. He attended Capitol Hill HS in Oklahoma City, where he was a member of the baseball team. He farmed for a few years near Texline, Texas and Clayton, New Mexico, later moving back to Oklahoma where he was employed by Oklahoma Furniture Company in Oklahoma City.
During World War II he was employed at Tinker AFB. About 1945 he formed his own business of upholstering and refinishing furniture. His outstanding and carefully detailed work was well known throughout the city and surrounding areas.
During his younger years he played sandlot baseball; he was an outstanding pitcher and hitter. In 1951 he coached a YMCA Little League baseball Team {age 14} which won a state championship. He also bowled and like to fish.
In 1935 he and Emma Svoboda of Glenco, Oklahoma were married in El Reno and have made their in home in Oklahoma City since that time.
Millard was a member of Oklahoma Czechs of Yukon.
He was preceded by his parents, a brother, Richard and two brothers-in-law, Ben Jun and Eugene Hendrick.
Survivors are his wife of 58 years, Emma; son, Connie Mac and wife, Lynda of Farmington, New Mexico; and daughter, Wanda Roach of Santa Fe, New Mexico; grandchildren, Jesse Roach, Jr. and wife, Linda Alan Krivanek; Kellye Ryan and husband, Jim; and Alecia Pittman and husband, Randy; great grandson Jesse M. Roach; two sisters, Frances Jun and Beatrice Hendrick; sister-in-law, Roberta Krivanek; several nieces, nephews and cousins.
Mr. Krivanek will lie in state at Bill Merritt South Funeral Home, 4605 S. Penn and funeral services will be Tuesday July 5, 1994 at 10:00 a.m. at the Chapel at Bill Merritt Funeral Home in Mustang, Oklahoma with interment in the Czech National Cemetery under the direction of Bill Merritt Funeral Service.
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