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Gary P. Svajdlenka

Gary P. Svajdlenka, 65, of Grand Island, died Sunday November 4, 2007 at the Golden Living Center at Lakeview.

Services will be 10:00 a.m. Thursday at All Faiths Funeral Home.  Private family burial will be in the Mt. Calvary Cemetery at Ravenna.

Visitation will be from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday at All Faiths Funeral Home.

Gary was born February 20, 1942 at Milwaukee, Wisconsin the son of Frank and Violet (Mueller) Svajdlenka. He grew up in Milwaukee graduating from Custer High School.  He received two years of drafting school.  Gary was united in marriage to Susan Sell on June 14, 1980.  They made their home in Grand Island.  He drove truck for Sun Flower and HTL.

He enjoyed fishing, game shows, cooking and watching cooking shows.  He had a great sense of humor and was an avid Green Bay Packer fan.  When he lived in Wisconsin he farmed and raised quarter horses.  While driving truck he enjoyed listening to Cub’s Baseball.

Those left to cherish his memory are his wife Susan, daughter and son-in-law, Taren and Joe Baxter of Doniphan, sons and daughters-in-law, Kurt Svajdlenka, Kent and Mary Svajdlenka of Grand Island and Paul and Tiffany Svajdlenka of Leesburg, Virginia, brother James and his wife Barbara Svajdlenka of Kent, Washington and twelve grandchildren. 

His parents and an infant brother Johnny preceded him in death.