Eva Ambrosek

IMPERIAL -- Eva Ambrosek, 85, died Tuesday (Oct. 14, 2003) at Chase County Community Hospital in Imperial.

She was born May 30, 1918, in Wauneta to Jack and Mary (Vasabel) Tepley. She attended grade school in a small country school and graduated from Wauneta High School in 1936. She took normal training in teaching.

On April 23, 1938, she married Gerald Andrew Ambrosek at Oberlin, Kan. They lived on a farm north of Benkelman for two years and then purchased a farm in northwest Dundy County in 1940. She was a homemaker, taking an active role in the farming operation and in 4-H as a leader.

She was preceded in death by her parents; by her husband, Gerald in May 1985; two brothers, Wilbur and Leonard; one sister, Mae; and one granddaughter, Reneé.

Survivors include four sons, Richard Ambrosek and wife, Elva of Idaho Falls, Idaho, Robert Ambrosek and wife, Tina of Haigler, Leslie Ambrosek and wife, Sonia of Haigler and Mark Ambrosek and wife, Yolanda, also of Haigler; one daughter, Janet Ambrosek of Omaha; one brother, Jake Tepley and wife, Lillian of Elsie; one sister, Anna Cooper of Hamlet; and 17 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren.

Services are Saturday, 2:30 p.m. (MST), at the Champion Community Church in Champion with the Rev. Francis Baker officiating. Interment is at Riverside Cemetery in Wauneta.

A memorial has been established in her memory.

Liewer Funeral Home of Imperial is in charge of the arrangements.