Edward Russell Kohanek

Edward's father, Walter, moved to Texas from Chicago, where he was born and raised. Edward says:

"In 1938 my father took my mother and me to Chicago to visit my aunt. I remember the long bus ride home to Texas ..... I had 5 children and now have 17 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren."

"My dad once told me that either his father or grandfather had shortened the name to Kohanek he did not know what the original spelling of the name was. My father's heritage was Bohemian from his father and Irish from his Mother. My father had one sister Alice and three brothers Peter, John, and Edward whom I was named after. I do not think my aunt Alice or Uncles Peter and John had children. Uncle Peter was an acrobat in circuses and changed his name to Kennedy."