1926
Rachel
2015
Rachel I. Spilinek
April 29, 1926 — April 27, 2015
Rachel I. Spilinek, 88, of Elba died Monday, April 27, 2015 at Brookefield Park in St. Paul.
Services will be held at 2:00 p.m., Friday at the United Methodist Church in St. Paul. Reverend Delano Cunningham will officiate. Interment will be in the Elba Cemetery in Elba.
Visitation will be held on Thursday, from 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. at Jacobsen-Greenway Funeral Home in St. Paul.
Memorials are suggested to the Elba United Methodist Church, St. Paul Senior Center or to the family's choice.
Mrs. Spilinek was born April 29, 1926 in Thayer, MO to J. Haskell and Elizabeth (Hamilton) Wooldridge.
Rachel attended schools in several southern states because her parents traveled participating in religious revivals, mainly in Arkansas and Missouri. After her schooling she picked cotton and then worked in a shirt factory in Florida.
She met her future husband, Clayton Spilinek, Sr. in Key West, FL at a revival while Clayton was in the U.S. Navy. They were married on July 11, 1946 in Key West.
The couple returned to Nebraska where they lived and farmed near Elba for all of their married life. After Clayton died on May 6, 1981, Rachel continued to live on the farm and she babysat Sidney Tillotson and some of her grandchildren. She also helped take care of elderly in their homes.
Rachel loved to quilt, sew, do puzzles, and read. She was very good at making kolaches and potato dumplings and sauerkraut.
Rachel was a very religious person, attending church regularly and watch television Christian programs.
She enjoyed visits from her Pennsylvania family, brother-in-law, Bob Henry, Scott Henry, Joy Canton, Timmy Black and Faye McCullen.
She was a member of the Elba United Methodist Church, United Methodist Women and the Koinonia Church Circle. She also belonged to the Carl Mogensen American Legion Auxiliary Unit 119 of St. Paul, Loup Valley Lodge 437 of Ord, and the St. Paul Country Quilters.
Survivors include a son and daughter-in-law, Clayton Jr. and Shelia Spilinek of Giltner; two daughters and sons-in-law, Martha and Doug Fousek of Elba and Sandy and Don Psota of North Loup; six grandchildren; one step-grandchild; ten great-grandchildren and one step great grandchildren.
She is preceded in death by her parents; husband, Clayton Spilinek, Sr., a son, Henry Spilinek; one great grandson, Jack Thompson; one brother, Joseph Woolridge; two sisters, Wilma Jean Henry and Betty Lou Lee and a niece, Karlee Henry.
Services will be held at 2:00 p.m., Friday at the United Methodist Church in St. Paul. Reverend Delano Cunningham will officiate. Interment will be in the Elba Cemetery in Elba.
Visitation will be held on Thursday, from 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. at Jacobsen-Greenway Funeral Home in St. Paul.
Memorials are suggested to the Elba United Methodist Church, St. Paul Senior Center or to the family's choice.
Mrs. Spilinek was born April 29, 1926 in Thayer, MO to J. Haskell and Elizabeth (Hamilton) Wooldridge.
Rachel attended schools in several southern states because her parents traveled participating in religious revivals, mainly in Arkansas and Missouri. After her schooling she picked cotton and then worked in a shirt factory in Florida.
She met her future husband, Clayton Spilinek, Sr. in Key West, FL at a revival while Clayton was in the U.S. Navy. They were married on July 11, 1946 in Key West.
The couple returned to Nebraska where they lived and farmed near Elba for all of their married life. After Clayton died on May 6, 1981, Rachel continued to live on the farm and she babysat Sidney Tillotson and some of her grandchildren. She also helped take care of elderly in their homes.
Rachel loved to quilt, sew, do puzzles, and read. She was very good at making kolaches and potato dumplings and sauerkraut.
Rachel was a very religious person, attending church regularly and watch television Christian programs.
She enjoyed visits from her Pennsylvania family, brother-in-law, Bob Henry, Scott Henry, Joy Canton, Timmy Black and Faye McCullen.
She was a member of the Elba United Methodist Church, United Methodist Women and the Koinonia Church Circle. She also belonged to the Carl Mogensen American Legion Auxiliary Unit 119 of St. Paul, Loup Valley Lodge 437 of Ord, and the St. Paul Country Quilters.
Survivors include a son and daughter-in-law, Clayton Jr. and Shelia Spilinek of Giltner; two daughters and sons-in-law, Martha and Doug Fousek of Elba and Sandy and Don Psota of North Loup; six grandchildren; one step-grandchild; ten great-grandchildren and one step great grandchildren.
She is preceded in death by her parents; husband, Clayton Spilinek, Sr., a son, Henry Spilinek; one great grandson, Jack Thompson; one brother, Joseph Woolridge; two sisters, Wilma Jean Henry and Betty Lou Lee and a niece, Karlee Henry.
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