                                                                                        DAD......


             THERE WAS NEVER ANYONE LIKE YOU, THE SMILE THE LAUGH THE WAY YOU TALKED AND THE SMALL THINGS YOU DID THAT NO ONE ELSE NOTICED BUT THAT I REMEMBERED ABOUT YOU....WE TALKED AND WATCHED WRESTING TOGETHER AND I REMEBERED THE VERY FIRST TIME YOU TOOK ME TO SEE A WRESTING MATCH LIVE, I WAS SO EXCITED AND FULL OF QUESTIONS. THE HEE HAW SHOW ON SATURDAY NIGHTS WAS OUR FAVORITE LAUGHT, BUT CANT FORGET THE SATURDAY SHOWS LIKE ROY ROGERS AND LONE RANGER..
             
              YOUR HEART WAS SO BIG AND TENDER I REMEMBER YOU NURSING A WHITE WING DOVE NAMED CHARLIE BACK TO HEALTH AND HOW HE RAISED HIS WINGS EVERYTIME YOU HAD A WATER HOSE SO HE COULD TAKE A SHOWER IN THE WATER. YOU LOVED ANIMALS AND BEING OUTSIDE. YOUR CREPE MYRTLE TREES WERE YOUR FAVORITE ONES TO SEE THEM BLOOM WAS JUST BREATH TAKING AND THE BEES WORKING THEM EVERY SPRING MENT EVEN MORE WONDERFUL FLOWERS.

               WE WENT FISHING AND YOU WOULD LET ME FISH AND YOU JUST KEPT PLACING THE WORMS ON THE HOOK EVERYTIME I PULLED MY CANE POOL IN... LUNCHMEAT SANDWICHES AND CHIPS THAT MOM PACKED WITH SWEET TEA FOR THE PICNIC... WE HAD SUCH WONDERFUL TIMES AND MEMORIES.

               YOU WERE THERE FOR ME AT GRADUATION AND GAVE MY HAND TO A WONDERFUL MAN NAMED CARLTON DOLLERY WHO PROMISED YOU HE WOULD CARE FOR ME AND PROTECT ME JUST AS YOU HAVE DONE....HE HAS AND CONTINUES TO DO SO DAD,,,,HE MISSES YOU VERY MUCH AND RECALLS LOTS OF THE TALKS YOU AND HE HAVE HAD, AND HOW YOU TAUGHT HIM SOME OF YOU SKILLS AS A BUTCHER.AND HOW YOU WERE SO EASY TO TALK TO.

                I WAS BLESSED THAT YOU WERE ABLE TO SEE ALL 3 OF MY SONS GROW UP INTO WONDERFUL MEN .
AND CARRY ON YOUR TRADITIONS AND THEY ALL TELL THE SAME STORIES THAT WE TOLD WHEN WE SAT AROUND ON WEEKENDS WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS. THEY BRING UP STORIES ABOUT WHAT GRANDPA DID AND HOW GRANDMA COOKED YOU WILL LIVE ON IN THE MEMEORIES AND HEARTS OF MY BOYS AND FOR THAT I AM FOREVER GREATFUL.

              YOU AND I HAD A SPECIAL TIME WHEN WE WOULD WALK TO THE ORANGE BALL BUS AND WAVE AS I WATCHED YOU WALK BACK HOME, I WAITIED EVERYDAY IN SCHOOL FOR THE BUS TO BRING ME BACK TO THE CORNER ON ASH STREET WHERE YOU WOULD BE WAITING TO WALK ME HOME. AND THE ICE CREAMS WE SHARED AT THE SMALL ICE CREAM PLACE ON PORT LAVACA HWY. I HAD TO HAVE CHOCOLATE AND YOU WERE STRAWBERRY. OH AND WHO COULD FORGET THE WHATABURGER HAMBURGER CONTEST BETWEEN EVERYONE ,,,NOW THAT WAS FUNNY TO SEE THE GUYS TRY AND PLACE THE WHOLE ONE IN THE MOUTH.

                I WATCHED OVER THE YEARS THE STRUGGLES YOU HAD AND HOW THE GOOD DAYS BECAME LESS AND THE MEMORIES WERE ALWAYS THERE JUST HIDDEN SOMEWHERE IN YOUR MIND THAT ONLY YOU KNEW HOW TO FIND... I THINK MAYBE THIS IS HOW GOD KEEPS THOSE SPECIAL TIMES SAFE TILL YOU REACH HEAVEN AND THEN THOSE SPECIAL THOUGHTS ARE UNLOCKED AND FLOOD YOU WITH NOTHING BUT HAPPINESS AND NEVER ANY TEARS. THE DOMINOS AND CARDS AND LEARNING TO SPEAK WITH YOU AND UNCLE RICHARD IN CZECH..NOW THAT WAS FUNNY. 

                 I WAS SO GLAD I HAD TIME TO TELL YOU ALL ABOUT HUNTER AND HIS COLLEGE THAT EVENING BEFORE I WENT HOME FOR A FEW HOURS...I PROMISED I WOULD ALWAYS BE THERE AND I MADE IT IN TIME TO HOLD YOUR HAND AND SAY GOODBYE..AS YOU TOOK YOUR LAST BREATH AS I WALKED IN.. MY HEART SANK NOT FOR THE LOSS OF YOU BUT KNOWING THAT AT THAT MOMENT THE PAIN WAS FOREVER GONE. AND YOU COULD BE WITH GRANDMA AND GRANDPA AND ALL THE FAMILY YOU MISSED FOR SO LONG.

                MAY YOU REST IN PEACE AND ENJOY YOUR LIFE IN HEAVEN WHERE WE WILL MEET AGAIN AND LAUGH ABOUT THE OLD TIMES. I REMIND MYSELF DAILY THAT EVEN THOUGH I CANT SEE YOU THAT YOU ARE ALWAYS NEXT TO ME AND WE CAN TALK ALWAYS ANYTIME OF THE DAY.


                                                                                                I LOVE AND MISS YOU DADDY
                                                                                                            DEBBIE DOLLERY
                                                                                                      "YOUR LITTLE PUMPKIN"




                                               MY TRIBUTE ABOUT UNCLE EDWIN ORSAK SR.


         I WAS BLESSED WITH REALLY GREAT UNCLES AND AUNTS AS I WAS GROWING UP. AS I GOT OLDER AND BECAME AN ADULT I ENJOYED BEING ABLE TO CARRY ON A CONVERSATION WITH THEM. I REALIZED THOUGH THAT I HAD A "SPECIAL CONNECTION" WITH ONE OF MY UNCLES AND AUNTS. WE COULD EASILY TALK TO EACHOTHER ABOUT ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING. TIME SPENT AT UNCLE EDWIN'S AND AUNT LOUISE'S KITCHEN TABLE LEFT ME FEELING SO SPECIAL BECAUSE WE DEVELOPED A BOND OF FRIENDSHIP. 

          I WOULD LIKE TO BRIEFLY REFLECT FOR A FEW MINUTES ON SOME SPECIAL MEMORIES ABOUT MY UNCLE EDWIN. HIS LOVE FOR MUSIC ESPECIALLY CZECH SONGS AND HIS NATURAL TALENT FOR THE ACCORDION. THE SOUND COMING FROM HIS FINGERS TOUCHING THE BLACK AND WHITE KEYS AND BUTTONS AS HIS ARMS SQUEEZED OUT THE SONGS WAS "MAGICAL" TO ME.

           HIS LOVE OF DRINKING COFFEE STANDS OUT TO ME. WHENEVER THEY WOULD COME TO MY MOM AND DAD'S FOR A SUNDAY MEAL OR AFTERNOON VISIT I CAN STILL SEE UNCLE EDWIN WALKING INTO THE KITCHEN AND ASKING MY MOM, "LEONA, YOU GOT SOME COFFEE?"  OF COURSE MOM HAD IT READY IN HER 8 CUP AVOCADO GREEN PERCULATOR WITH HER ROSE ENGRAVED MATCHING CUPS AND SAUCERS RIGHT NEXT TO IT. HE WOULD MAKE SEVERAL TRIPS TO THAT COFFEE POT THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON VISIT.

            MY DAD, UNCLE CLEMEN , AND UNCLE EDWIN GETTING TOGETHER ALSO REMINDED ME OF THE GIFT OF LAUGHTER, AS THEY VISITED OR REMENISED BETWEEN THEMSELVES, IT WOULD'T BE UNUSUAL TO SEE THEM SHED WHAT I CALLED A "LAUGHTER TEARS", SOMETIME THE LAUGHTER WOULD BE SO DEEP AND STRONG THAT THEIR FACES WOULD CHANGE IN APPEARANCE AND "LAUGHTER TEARS" WOULD FLOW FROM THEIR EYES IT WAS A JOY TO SEE THIS HAPPEN.

              HIS DEEP LOVE FOR HIS BELOVED WIFE MY AUNT LOUISE. THEIR SHARED LOVE AND TIME SPENT TOGETHER WAS TO ME AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT MARRIAGE IS ABOUT WHEN THE WORDS ARE EXCHANGED IN MARRIAGE VOWS,"FOR BETTER OR WORSE, RICHER OR POORER, SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH, TILL DEATH DUE US PART", THEY LIVED OUT THEIR VOWS FOR EACHOTHER AND THEIR FAMILY. WHAT AN AWSOME BLESSING.

              MY FINAL MEMORY I WANTED TO SHARE WITH ALL OF YOU IS HIS STRONG FAITH AND TRUST IN GOD. HIS DRIVE AND PERSISTANCE TO NEVER GIVE UP AND LET GOD GUIDE HIM THROUGH THE "TOUGH TIMES" WAS INSPIRATIONAL. MY HUSBAND LEONARD AND I WOULD EXCHANGE THOUGHTS ABOUT HOW DOES HE DO IT? AND THE ANSWER WAS ALWAYS THE SAME........BECAUSE HE IS LEANING ON GOD.

               TO ME, THAT WILL BE HIS LEGACY IN LIFE. I AM NAMING IT "THE SPIRIT OF A TRUE CHRISTIAN". SO, UNCLE EDWIN . MARCH ON CHRISTAIN SOLDIER. YOU FAUGHT A GOOD FIGHT, NOW THE TIME HAS COME TO "GO HOME" AND BECOME AN ANGEL FOR GOD.


                                                                                FROM MY HEART AND SOUL TO YOURS
                                                                                              "SBANEM BOHEM"
                                                                                                      FAREWELL

                                            LEONARD AND I WILL ALWAYS HAVE A SPECIAL PLACE IN OUR HEARTS FOR YOU DEAR SWEET UNCLE EDWIN ORSAK..

                                  THE LEGACY EDWIN GEORGE ORSAK SR. LEFT TO US ALL


         THOUGH EDWIN WASN'T A STRONG, TALL, RICH, FAMOUS OR POWERFUL PERSON, HE SPENT 82 YEARS ON GOD'S EARTH PROBABLY NEVER FULLY REALIZING THE POSITIVE IMPACT HE LEFT ON ALL THOSE PEOPLE LUCKY TO HAVE KNOWN HIM. WE ALL SINCERLY HOPE THIS "SPECIAL MAN" SEES OR KNOWS THAT THIS IS A BETTER WORLD HE LEFT BEHIND, BECAUSE OF THE WAY HE OVERCAME LIFE'S HARDEST TRIALS AND TASK, NEVER FAULTING FAITH, GOD, FAMILY, AND FRIENDS. EDWIN WILL COME INTO OUR THOUGHTS CONSTANTLY, HE WILL BE MISSED DAILY, AND WE WILL ALL BE BETTER USING A REMEMBERANCE OF HIS OVERCOMING ONE OF HIS LIFE'S MANY SETBACKS. WE MUST ALSO KEEP IN MIND "THE GOOD TIMES AND FELLOWSHIP" WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS, AND THE HEALING POWERS IT PROVIDED THRU PRAYERS AND WELL WISHES FROM EVERYONE CLOSE TO YOU. HOW SPECAIL IT WAS TO SEE EDWIN FEEL SO MUCH BETTER TO BE VISITED OR GOING TO VISIT FRIENDS AND RELATIVES. SO VERY MUCH STRENGTH AND HEALING POWERS CAME THRU THE, MANY VISITS FROM PRIEST, DEACONS, AND PARISHIONERS OF ST. MARY'S CATHOLIC CHURCH OF VICTORIA.

           HOW EDWIN FAUGHT AND ACCEPTED THE MANY OF LIFE'S TRAGIC EVENTS AND ILLNESSES THAT WAS SET UPON HIM, THAT IS WHAT WILL REMAIN INSIDE US ALL THROUGHOUT OUR LIVES.
       

                                            FOREVER MY DAD, FRIEND AND TEACHER

          I THANK YOU FOR HAVING THE FAITH AND THE WILL TO FIGHT AND SURVIVE FOR SO MANY YEARS FOR YOUR WIFE AND CHILDREN. MY BIGGEST FEAR AS A CHILD WAS TO LOSE YOU, THE WAY YOU LOST YOUR DAD AT AN EARLY AGE. REST PEACEFULLY KNOWING YOUR WIFE , MY MOM, LOUISE , YOUR HOME AND YARD WILL CONTINUE TO BE CARED FOR. I WILL ALWAYS APPRECIATE THE MANY TIMES SHE NURSED AND TENDED TO YOUR WOUNDS AND ILLNESSES WHEN DRS, AND HOPSITALS SEEMED TO WANT TO LET YOU PASS AWAY.

          ONE MAN ALWAYS COMES TO MIND, MANY TIMES AS SOMEONE WHO INFLUENCED OR GUIDED YOU DURING YOUR BATTLE TO FIGHT AND GRACIOUSLY ACCEPT YOUR HEALTH PROBLEMS DURING YOUR LAST 46 YEARS OF LIFE. THOUGH HE PASSED AWAY A YEAR AFTER YOU GOT HURT WE ALL GOT TO KNOW AND LOVE HIM. YOU AND YOUR FAMILY KNEW OF THE HEALTH PROBLEMS HE ENDURED FOR ALMOST 30 YEARS. WHAT STOOD OUT ABOUT THIS MAN , WAS HOW HE COULD BE IN PAIN, NOT FEELING WELL, LIMPING ALONG, YET WOULDN'T LET THAT INTERFERE WITH MAKING SURE VISITORS TO HIS HOME TRUELY ENJOYED THEIR STAY AND LAUGHTER, STORIES, AND HIS WIFE'S MOST EXCELLENT COUNTRY STYLE OF COOKING. HIS NAME WAS EMIL P. KLOESEL SR. ALONG WITH HIS WIFE ELIZABETH, OF SHINER ,TEXAS. THEN YOU AND MOM RETURNED THE SAME GOOD WILL TO HIS FAMILY WHEN THEY CAME TO VICTORIA.

           EVEN THOUGH YOU WERE HOSPITALIZED OR STAYED UP MANY NIGHTS FOR PAIN, I WAS ABLE TO SIT AND TALK WITH YOU, AFTER SCHOOL AND WORK, OR AT HOME WHEN EVERYONE WAS ASLEEP, FOR MANY YEARS. NURSES WOULD CHECK ON YOU ALL NIGHT TO FIND YOU CARRYING ON AND LAUGHING, DURING SOME OF THE TIMES I WAS ABLE TO STAY WITH YOU ALL NIGHT. FROM CHILD TO ADULTHOOD WE SPENT MANY TIMES AROUND YOUR BAR-B-QUE PIT AND DINNING TABLE TELLING STORIES, DISCUSSING OLD TIMES, NEW EVENTS, OUR WORK , AND WORK ETHICS. I LEARNED TO DO A BETTER JOB THAN EMPLOYERS EXPECTED AND ALWAYS MORE THAN I WAS ASKED TO DO WITHOUT COMPLAINING,THERERORE I WAS ALWAYS ADVANCED QUICKLY AND NEVER EXPERIENCED ONE DAY OF UNEMPLOYMENT.

           I WILL ALWAYS BE THANKFUL WE GOT TO SPEND MORE TIME TOGETHER THAN MOST FATHERS AND SONS. I WILL ALWAYS BE IMPRESSED BY YOUR GOOD NATURE, YOUR ABILITY TO TRULY LISTEN, ADVISE, AND CARE ABOUT EVERYONE YOU MET.I COMMEND YOU FOR YOUR RELIGEOUS FAITH AND COMMITMENT TO ADHERE TIGHTLY TO IT WETHER IT BE GOOD OR BAD TIMES. I WAS ALWAYS HAPPY TO SEE YOU BRING OUT YOUR ACCORDION, PEOPLE GATHERED, JOINED YOU IN SINGING OR LISTENING INTENTLY, KEEPING A PART OF THE CZECH TRADITION ALIVE. I AM GREATFUL THAT YOU AND MOM PLACED SO MUCH VALUE IN YOUR CHILDREN GETTING TO KNOW ALL YOUR FAMILIES AND FRIENDS, ALONG WITH PICTURES AND STORIES OF THOSE WHO PASSED ON BEFORE OUR BIRTHS. I HOPE THAT YOU'R AWARE THAT I WILL MISS YOU AND REMEMBER ALL THE GOOD YOU HAVE BROUGHT TO THIS WORLD. MAY YOU REST IN PEACE, UNTILL YOU REJOIN ALL THOSE WHO HAVE GONE BEFORE YOU, IN GOD'S HEAVENLY KINGDOM.

          NOW IT HAS BEEN OVER A YEAR SINCE WE HAVE FIRED UP YOUR BAR-B-QUE PIT, WHENEVER WE DO I WILL PROMINENTLY DISPLAY YOUR PICTURE AND HAVE YOUR HONORARY HALF GLASS OF BEER AT YOUR SIDE, AND YOUR NAME AND MEMORIES WILL BE COMING TO US ALWAYS. AND WHAT I AM MOST PROUD OF IS THAT YOU HONORED ME WITH YOUR NAME AND I AM EQUALLY PROUD TO BE CALLED SIMPLY "JUNIOR".

                                                                                                YOUR SON ALWAYS
                                                                                             EDWIN GEORGE ORSAK JR.

                                                           TO: MY LOVING HUSBAND
                                                           EDWIN GEORGE ORSAK SR.


           WELL, ITS BEEN PAINFULL TO ACCEPT, BUT I AM STILL HERE AND THE TIME FINALLY CAME FOR YOU TO LEAVE AND TAKE YOUR PLACE IN HEAVEN TO SUFFER NO MORE. I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT I MISS YOU SO MUCH. EVERYWHERE I LOOK I CAN PICTURE YOU THERE. THE SOFA YOU LIED IN, NEXT TO ME IN MY RECLINER, IS EMPTY NOW. BUT I KNOW YOU ARE IN BETTER HANDS NOW, PEACEFULLY SLEEPING UP IN HEAVEN. I WILL CONTINUE TO WORK, STAY HEALTHY, ENJOY TIME WITH OUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS, CELEBRATING CHURCH MASS IN YOUR NAME AND SPENDING TIME WITH YOU AT OUR FINAL EARTHLY RESTING PLACE. I LOOK TO SEE YOU AGAIN, WHEN WE WILL BE TOGETHER FOR ALWAYS .

           I HELD YOUR HAND TO THE VERY END, THEN I FELT YOU SLIP AWAY, THEN I KNEW THE TIME HAD COME FOR ME TO LET YOU GO. BUT I AM SO GREATFUL THAT WE HAD EACHOTHER AND STAYED TOGETHER FOR 61 & 1/2 YEARS OF MARRIED LIFE. I FIRST FELL IN LOVE WITH YOU IN SEPTEMBER 1953. I LOVED YOU ALL THOSE YEARS, NEVER LOVED ANOTHER, AND WILL NEVER LOVE ANYONE BUT YOU.


          WE HAD OUR GOOD TIMES, BUT IT SEEMS YOU AND I SUFFERED THRU MORE OUR FAIR SHARE OF HARD TIMES. BUT WE VOWED TO EACH TO MAKE IT THRU RICH OR POOR, HEALTHY OR SICK, GOOD OR BAD TIMES, AND THANK GOD WE DID. SO I WILL SAY "GOOD BYE NOW", TILL I SEE YOU AGAIN AND JOIN HANDS FOREVER. MAY GOD BLESS AND KEEP YOU IN HIS CARE, AND MAY YOU REST IN PEACE IN YOUR NEW HOME.

                                                          "I LOVE YOU HONEY"
                                                                                                              

                                                                                                     FOREVER YOUR WIFE,
                                                                                                                 LOUISE




               IN YOUR HANDS, O LORD, 
WE HUMBLY ENTRUST EDWIN G.ORSAK SR.
IN THIS LIFE YOU EMBRACED HIM WITH YOUR TENDER LOVE,
               DELIVER HIM NOW FROM EVERY EVIL,
               AND BID HIM ETERNAL REST.
               THE OLD ORDER HAS PASSED AWAY,
               WELCOME HIM INTO PARADISE,
WHERE THERE WILL BE NO SORROW, NO WEEPING OR PAIN,
              BUT FULLNESS OF PEACE AND JOY 
WITH YOUR SON AND THE HOLY SPIRIT FOREVER AND EVER
             AMEN.



OBITUARY

Edwin George Orsak Sr.

June 2, 1935 – September 1, 2016

Rosewood Funeral Chapel

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