Obit of Dobry, Mary A - Canadian County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Smiley 05 Nov 2006 Return to Canadian County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/canadian/canadian.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== ::Yukon Cemetery--Yukon OK Surnames: Originally posted at: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/yZB.2ACI/513.1.1 ..from the Oklahoman Newspaper Archives dated: 05-28-1957 Widow of Mill's Founder, Dies YUKON, May 27 - Mrs Mary A. Dobry, 86, of Yukon, died Monday morning in St Anthony Hospital in Oklahoma City. She was injured in a fall at her home about a week ago. Born August 25, 1870 in Czechoslovakia, she came to the United States with her parents in 1875. The family first settled in Bruno, Nebraska. She moved to Yukon in April 1890, and lived on a farm three miles southwest of Yukon until 1902 when she and her husband, A.F. Dobry, moved into town where he went into the milling business. First a partner in a Yukon milling firm, he founded Dobry Flour Mills, Inc. in 1934. In 1954, the mill was sold to the Oklahoma Farmers Union. Dobry died in November 1951. Mrs Dobry was a member of St John's Catholic Church in Yukon and the Ladies Altar Society of the church. She is survived by two daughters, Mrs Frank Kostka, 4020 N. Meridian, Oklahoma City, and Mrs Alan Norwood, Yukon; two sons, T.A. and Joe E. Dobry, both of Yukon; two brothers, Tom and Robert Kroutil, both of Yukon; 11 grandchildren and 27 great-grandchildren. Rosary will be at 8 pm Tuesday in Turner Funeral Home of Yukon. Requiem mass will be at 10 am Wednesday in St John's Church and burial will be in Yukon Cemetery. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Canadian County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/canadian/canadian.html