OBITUARY: Joseph "Joe" Vulk, Sr., Mitchell County, Iowa

[Mitchell County Press-news oline - Posted Feb. 27, 2002 - www.mcpress.com]


                         Joseph "Joe" Vulk, Sr.

A Scripture Memorial service was held at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2002
for Joseph "Joe" Vulk, Sr., age 88, of Osage, at Champion-Bucheit Funeral
Home, Osage. Rev. Philip Recker officiated.  His body was cremated and a
private burial will take place at a later date. Mr. Vulk passed away with
his family at his side on Sunday, Feb. 24, 2002 at the Mitchell County
Regional Health Center after a lengthy illness.

Joe was born Sept. 6, 1913 in Chicago, ILL the oldest child of Lewis and
Frances (Kucera) Vulk. The family moved to the Osage area when he was two.
Joe grew up in the Osage area and graduated from Osage Community High
School. After graduation, he moved back to Chicago and worked in a defense
plant during the war. There he married his longtime sweetheart Mary Kordes
of Mitchell, IA. Together, they moved back to Osage in 1949. Joe worked at
White Farm Equipment, then known as Oliver in Charles City until retiring
in 1976. After retirement, he spent many years as an avid fisherman and
hunting for lost golf balls at Sunny Brae Golf Course. He was well known
as "Golf Ball Joe."

Preceding him in death were his parents; his brother, Lewis; sister,
Beatrice and her husband, Bill Wanless.

Those that survive him include his wife, Mary of 64 years; two children,
Joseph Vulk Jr. and wife, Beverly of Osage; Darlene Gruis and her husband,
John of Rockford; four grandchildren, Scott Gruis and wife, Cheryl of
Rockford, Julie Salisbury and her husband, Doug of Nora Springs, Mike
Vulk and his fiancee Nikki Papouchis of Mason City, Ruth Krones and her
husband, Gary of Osage; 8 great-grandchildren, Byrce Rosel, Spenser Gruis,
Nicholas, Kayee and Sawyer Salisbury, Teri Birdsall, Kaitlyn and Mackenzie
Krones; a brother, Frank Vulk and his wife, Ruth of Richmond, VA;
sisters-in-law, Mary Jean Vulk of Lake Mills; four nieces and three
nephews.




Copyright (c) 2002 by Kermit Kittleson
(Note: I am not necessarily related to the subject of the obituary.)
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