My Czech Family History

Vítáme Vás! This web site will provide information about my ancestors who immigrated to Texas from Bohemia and Moravia in the 19th century and their descendants.

I am grateful for the assistance and encouragement that I have received from my mother, my husband, our children, and my "long lost" cousins: Lisa Bernhard, Becky Donlan, Beverly Ewald, and Dennis Pechal.

Family Photos

• Three Generations (29 KB)
  

  A trip to downtown Fort Worth with my Auntee, Grandmother, and Mother in the fall of 1945.
  From left to right: Elsie Pechal, Anna Dawson, Pat McGee, and Marie McGee

• Mother & Child (19 KB)
  

  Anna Shindler Pechal holding her son Willie, ca. 1911

• In Remembrance of John Benneck (covers) (44 KB)
  

  Funeral service program - back and front covers.
  Hewett Mortuarty - Temple, Texas

• In Remembrance of John Benneck (pages 1 & 2) (45 KB)
  

  Funeral service program - poem and description of service.
  Hewett Mortuarty - Temple, Texas

• Elsie Pechal (34 KB)
  

  Collage of Photographs taken in 1970's

• John Henry Pechal, Pat McGee and Clyde Benick (62 KB)
  

  This photograph was taken when two of my uncles drove to Fort Worth to visit my family.
  We're standing in the back yard of our home on Chenault Street.
  Our Crosley is barely visible in the background.

  Photograph ca. 1947, courtesy of Lisa Bernhard

• John [Pechal] Benneck (28 KB)
  

  My maternal grandfather, John Benneck, at the beach.
  Photograph made at L. Tobler Studio
  Murdoch Bath House, Galveston, Texas.

  Photograph ca. 1930, courtesy of Beverly Ewald.

Related Files

• About Names (1 KB)
  

  Explanation of name changes and spellings in the Pechal/Benneck/Krauskopp/Shindler families.

• John Benneck's Obituary (1 KB)
  

  Text of John [Pechal] Benneck's obituary copied from newspaper clipping.

• Elsie Pechal's Obituary (1 KB)
  

  Text of Elsie Pechal's obituary.

Related Links

• Index to Crowley Heritage Pages
• Czechoslovak Genealogical Society International