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James Edward Smrkovski

Mound, Minnesota

Feb 23, 1939 – Feb 22, 2024

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BORN
February 23, 1939
DIED
February 22, 2024
LOCATION
Mound, Minnesota

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James Edward Smrkovski died very peacefully in his sleep February 22nd, 2024, the evening before his 85th birthday, in his Minneapolis, MN home surrounded by loving family. James is survived by his three daughters (Vesna, Rina, Vanda), three son-in-laws (Erik, Tom, Sid), two grandchildren (Tara,...

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Dad loved his kids. In order, his son Vania, four generations...his grandfather, father and oldest daughter, Vesna, his oldest and youngest children, his oldest daughter on a lovely summer's day enjoying a taste of his favorite culture.

With great sorrow I just learned over the Internet of Jim's passing. I was his colleague at Westmar College in 1990/91 (he taught English to Japanese exchange students from Teikyo U and I taught German/Spanish). My wife is Czech and he visited us in the late 1990s in the Czech Republic (where I have subsequently been teaching English to Czech university students; I drove him to Kutna Hora in central Bohemia where his grandparents emigrated from. Once we found our way in my old Skoda car,...

James Edward Smrkovski, loving wife Jacqueline and daughter Vesna. 1966 Germany.

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