Julia Velma Svoboda

Hastings resident, Julia Velma Svoboda, 95, passed away Monday, July 9, 2012 at the Mary Lanning Memorial HealthCare, Hastings, NE. Rosary will be Thursday, July 12, 2012 at 6:30 pm at the Brand-Wilson Funeral Home Chapel with Father Joseph Walsh officiating. Mass of Christian Burial will be Friday, July 13, 2012 at 10:30 am at St. Cecilias Catholic Church in Hastings, NE with Father Joseph Walsh officiating. Graveside service will be Friday, July 13, 2012 at 2 pm at the Deweese Cemetery in Deweese, NE. Visitation will be Thursday, July 12, 2012 from 10 am up till rosary time in the chapel. Condolences may be sent to the family from www.brandwilson.com. Memorials may be given to the familys choice. Julia was born November 12, 1916 to Joseph and Stella (Karmazin)Svoboda near Deweese, NE. She graduated from the Deweese High School in 1935. She moved to Lawrence, NE and later she moved to Hastings, NE in 1964, then moving to Perkins Pavilion, GSS in 2008 due to health reasons. She married Wallace Svoboda on May 5, 1942 at the Deweese Assumption Church in Deweese, NE, Wallace passed away November 29, 1949. Julia was a member of the St. Cecilias Catholic Church in Hastings, NE. She was a homemaker and also worked at Rubys Eastgate Caf(c) in Hastings, NE. She loved baking, quilting, gardening and flowers. She is survived by two daughters, Delores Pohlmeier and husband Don of Lawrence, NE and Eileen Nejezchleb and husband Ron of Glenvil, NE, 8 grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren, one brother Irvin Svoboda of Blue Hill, NE and one sister-in-law, Mildred Svoboda of Grand Island, NE and many nieces, nephews and cousins. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Wallace, her brother Tony Svoboda and an infant grandson, James Pohlmeier.