Person:Frances Marek (1)

Frances Claudine "Clyde" Novotny, 92, of Boerne, formerly of Abbott-West, passed away Saturday, April 22, 2006, in a Boerne Rest Home, from complications following a stroke. Graveside services will be 2 p.m. Tuesday at Fatima Cemetery in Abbott with Father Vincent Chacko, IMS, officiating.

Clyde was the fourth of nine children born to Adolph H. and Lucy (Horsak) Marek in Hill County, Texas. Clyde's teenage years were spent in Hillsboro where she worked in the family's Sanitary Meat Market on the square. Clyde married Jerry E. Novotny in August 1933, and moved to Abbott. She was very active in the community and church and taught at both Abbott School and St. Mary's School in West, Texas. She served in many offices in the PTA and KJZT #104. Her abilities as a seamstress were put to use for friends and family. After her husband's death in 1968, she lived near her family in Dallas, West and Boerne.

In addition to her husband of 35 years, Clyde was preceded in death by her son-in-law, Ben F. Marek; and six of her siblings, brothers, Al D. Wesley (Buck), Bill and Eugene Marek; and sisters, Willie Mae Marek, Edith Marek and Maurine Marek Beseda.

Clyde is survived by her daughters, Pat Marek, of Coppell and Suzanne Jackson and husband, Barry, of Boerne; grandchildren, Benet Marek Martin and husband, Scott, Matthew Marek and wife, Maria, Andrew Marek and wife, Ann Marie, Jay Jackson, and Julie Jackson Hutson and husband, Preston; five great-grandchildren, Benjamin Marek, Marek Martin, Kyle and Alexandria Hutson, and Sierra Jackson; sister, Sister Allene Marek, DC, of Hewitt; her aunt, Frances Novak, of West; sisters-in-law, Olga Novotny, of Abbott and Bertha Novotny Trainer and husband, Wyatt, of Marble Falls; and thirty nieces and nephews.

Waco Tribune-Herald: 4/24/2006 - 4/25/2006...

Jerry and Frances Novotny Tombstone