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- [S4] Newspaper - Wisconsin - Green Bay Press Gazette, Roy W. Jindra; Obituary; 29 June 2000; viewed online; 19 August 2019.
Roy W. Jindra, 74, of 237 Riverwood Dr., Mishicot, died Tuesday, June 27, 2000 at his residence after a brief illness.
Roy was born June 11, 1926 in Two Rivers, son of the late Alvin and Leona Meineke Jindra and has been a life long resident. Mr. Jindra was a 1944 graduate of Mishicot High School. He served in the United States Air Force in Japan during the early years of the Korean Conflict as a Radar Technician. He married the at St. Peters Ev. Lutheran Church, July 28, 1956. He served as an apprentice for the
George Schmidt Plumbing Company in Mishicot, and later purchased the business in 1955 where he owned and operated Jindra Plumbing and Heating until his retirement in 1988.
Mr. Jindra was baptized and confirmed and was a very faithful member of St. Peters Ev. Lutheran Church and was active in the church choir. He was a former member of the Mishicot Lions Club. He was an accomplished pilot and a founding member of the Mishicot Flying Club, currently
the Manitowoc Flying Club. He was also a former member of the Wisconsin Master Plumbers Association, as well as the Board of Control of Manitowoc Lutheran High School. Mr Jindra enjoyed playing the clarinet and saxophone for several area bands and orchestras during the 1950s.
Survivors include his loving wife, one daughter and son-in-law, four sons and daughters-in-law, ten grandchildren, and one sister and brother-in-law, two brothers and three sisters-in-law, aunts, nieces, nephews and cousins also survive.
He was preceded in death by one sister, Ethel.
Funeral Services will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday, June 30, 2000 at St. Peters Ev. Lutheran Church, Mishicot with the Rev. Robert Johannes officiating, with entombment at the Knollwood Mausoleum, town of Kossuth, with committal prayers by the Rev. Paul Schleis, who is a godson of Mr. Jindra.
Relatives and friends may call from 4-8 p.m. Thursday (TONIGHT), at the Lambert Funeral Home and after 9:30 a.m. on Friday at St. Peters Ev. Lutheran Church.
In Lieu of other expressions of sympathy a memorial fund has been established in his name for Manitowoc Lutheran High School, St. Peters Ev. Lutheran Church Handicapped Access Fund or the donors choice.
In my Father's house are many mansions. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself, that where I am there you may be also. John 14:2-3.
The Jindra family would also like to extend a special thank you to the Two Rivers Visiting Nurses Association and Hospice for their love, special care and concerns shown to our family during Roy's illness.
Green Bay Press-Gazette (WI) - June 29, 2000
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