Gladwin County MI Archives Obituaries.....BROKA, DAVID ELLSWORTH February 10, 1984
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Gladwin County Record dated 02-15/1984 Column - 3 Page – 2
David E. Broka, 74, of 4247 S. M-18, Beaverton and retired Gladwin County 
Equalization director, died suddenly of a heart attack at the home of his 
daughter in Roscommon Friday, Feb. 10. Born in Paulding, Ohio, on April 4, 
1909, he had spent most of his life in Gladwin County. Mr. Broka was a County 
Normal School teacher in the late 1920's; worked in the oil fields in the 
county for several independant drillers from the 1930's to 1967; and was 
county Equalization director form 1968 to 1978. He was a member of the 
Beaverton Masonic Lodge and Church of God, the board of directors of Chemical 
Bank, Gladwin County; Michigan Intermediate School Board; and was past 
president of the Gladwin Intermediate School District. Mr. Broka and the 
former Mildren Ankrom were married January 25, 1937, in Catlettbury, Ky.
   Besides his wife, he is survived by 2 daughters, Mrs. Jack (Mary Jo) Holder 
of Adolphus, Ky. and Mrs. Mike (Donna) Colton of Roscommon; 4 brothers, 
Harold, George and Lloyd of Beaverton and Jim of Coleman; 6 sisters, Mrs. Alma 
Clore and Mrs. Helen Rousseau of Gladwin, Mrs. Norma Jean Lasko of Midland, 
Mrs. Marie Clark of Flint, Mrs. Clara Peterson of Minneapolis, Minn. and 
Luella Broka of Beaverton.
   Services were held Monday at 2 p.m. from the Hall Funeral Home, Beaverton 
Chapel. The Rev. Martin Ledwidge officiated and burial was in the Beaverton 
Cemetery. 

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