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Jo-Ann Mandát
September 05, 2025


Cleveland, Ohio
Joseph Anthony Kocab passed away peacefully on Saturday, December 17. He was 90 years old. Joe was predeceased by his parents, Joseph and Antoinette, his brother Norbert (Joanna), his nephew Joe, and life companion Georgia Jencik. He is survived by his nieces, Anita Schafer, Patricia (Stu)...
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Jo-Ann Mandát
September 05, 2025

Jo-Ann Mandát
September 05, 2025

Jo-Ann Mandát
September 05, 2025
I was a member of the Czech Dance Group in Toronto and have many memories of Joe Kocab. He was good friends with my parents, especially my dad, who received the key to the City of Cleveland. I am going through our dance group archives and there are many kind letters from Joe to our dance group. Heaven must be full of great Moravian music since Joe and my dad both passed away in 2022. Best wishes to the Kocab family and the Czechs of Cleveland. We can't go back again but thank God for the...
Jo-Ann Mandát
September 05, 2025
We would like to add our memory of Joe "Pepik", we only recently learned with regret that he had passed away. We remember Pepik's visits to Czechoslovakia in the seventies and eighties to our grandparents Jaroslava+Vladimir Frydl. It was always wonderful and magical for all of us - their grandchildren Daniela+Magdalena+Kamila, cousin Anna and our mother Irena Syruchek. Among other things, he was also a godfather for Magdalena at her christening in 1972 in the church of St. Havel in Prague in...
Daniela Attar, Magdalena Kasparova, Kamila Syruckova
January 25, 2025 | Friend
Special condolence to Joe's good friends the Hyvnar family, Ludmila and John. May God bless you. Peace, Robert Rybka
Robert Rybka
January 11, 2023 | Friend
To the family of Joe Kocab, Joe was a friend of our family. He helped with a visit to the Czech Republic and found Czech music for us to enjoy. We would always greet him in the last pew at Our Lady of Lourdes Church before Saturday evening Mass. May the saints and angels accompany him to the heart of God.
Phil and Linda Marcin
January 06, 2023
Remember Joe for his radio broadcast on Sunday Afternoon . A very great friend of Mary & I many great times together He will be sadly missed especially his cigar and beer Loved all the old time records scratchy as they were
EDWARD GAJDOSTIK
January 06, 2023 | Friend
May the love of friends and family carry you through your grief.
Donna and Rudy Novotny
January 06, 2023 | Friend