King County WA Archives Obituaries.....Velikonja, Joseph May 23, 2015
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Joseph was born April 17, 1923 in Liubljana, Yugoslavia.

During World War II he was imprisoned by the German-allied Croatian and Italian
forces.

He married Matilde Rus in Rome in 1950.   They emigrated to the US in 1955.  She
died in 2003.

He had a PhD in Geography and taught at a number of universities including the
University of Washington.

Due to his anti-communist views he was denied entry to Yugoslavia until 1991
when it became an independent country again, after which time he visited regularly.

He is survived by his son Peter (New York) where he lived for several years
until moving to Slovenia in 2014 where he died.   He is also survived by
daughter Maria and son Marko.

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