JOSEPH HRIBAR

Joseph William Hribar, 88, Willard, Clark County, died Monday, Sept. 9, 1996, at St. Joseph's Hospital, Marshfield.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 12, 1996, at Holy Family Catholic Church, Willard. Rev. Joseph Follmar will officiate. Burial will be in Holy Family Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Jim Hribar, Edward Ule, Craig Hribar, Clayton Braun, Walter Hribar and William Hribar.

Visitation will be on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 1996, from 6-8 p.m. at Holy Family Catholic Church. There will be a prayer service at 6:30 p.m.

Joseph William Hribar was born on Jan. 2, 1908, in Pueblo, Col., to Rank and Anna (nee Zitnik) Hribar. At the age of two, he moved with his parents to Willard, where he grew up on a farm. He received his education in McKinley School, southwest of Willard. He worked as a too and die maker in Chicago and returned to Willard in the summer to help on the farm. He marriage Olga Ule on Aug. 27, 1938, at St. Bonaventure Church in Chicago. She survives. They lived in Chicago until moving to Willard in 1947, where they farmed until retiring. He continued raising beef cattle and living on the farm until the time of his death. He was a Seif Township Chairman, a former school board member of Blackberry School and Greenwood Community School and a lifetime member of Holy Family Catholic Church.

Survivors include his wife four brothers, Anton (Pauline) Hribar, Lake Villa, Ill. Ludwig Hribar, Willard Walter (Clara) Hribar, Greenwood and William (Mary) Hribar, Willard and two sisters, Olga (Frank) Hedemark, Neillsville and Bernice (Elmer) Bruksch, Killdeer, Ill.

He was preceded in death by one son, Joseph William Hribar, on Sept. 29, 1978 his parents three brothers, Frank, John and Louis and two sisters, Anna Marincic and Mary Volovsek.

Rinka Funeral Home assisted the family with arrangements.

Source: Tribune-Record-Gleaner 09/11/1996