Submitted by: Cathy Millburn
FRANK SCHILLER, SR.
Frank Schiller, Sr., b
August 3, 1871 in Wesley, Texas, d September 28, 1950 on Route 3 out of Rosebud,
Texas ‑ was a son of Joseph and Anna (Jesek) Schiller.
About 1896, Frank was
married to Mary Plasek, b September 14, 1878 at Welcome, Texas, d December 31,
1917 in Rosebud, Falls County, Texas.
Frank and Mary lived
at Wesley, Texas where five of their six children were born; moved to Bell
County; and then to the "Y" on Highways 53 and 77, where they farmed and ran a
filling station in Falls County, Texas. The six children of Frank and Mary
(Plasek) Schiller, Sr. were:
Mary Henrietta
Schiller, b September 12, 1897 at Wesley, Texas. No further information.
Mathilde Tracy
Schiller, b January 8, 1899 at Wesley, Texas ‑ married Edward Malcik.
Vlasta Belinda
Schiller, b March 7, 1901 at Wesley, Texas, d October 26, 1934 ‑married Frank
Malcik.
Edward Joe Schiller, b
November 6, 1902 at Wesley, Texas ‑ no further information.
Libby Frances
Schiller, b November 10, 1904 at Wesley, Texas ‑ married first to Joe Bravenec,
and married second to Merlin Ruble.
Frank John Schiller, b
August 4, 1909 at Barclay, Falls County, Texas ‑ married in 1935 to Minnie
Nussbaum.
After the death of
Mary (Plasek) Schiller in 1917, Frank Schiller, Sr. married second on December
7, 1926 in Cameron, Milam County, Texas to Mrs. Anna (Malcik) Pomykal, b April
10, 1896, d December 20, 1978 ‑ the widow of Adolph J. Pomykal and daughter of
Thomas and Marie (Stastny) Malcik. Frank and Anna had one daughter:
Naomi Ruth Schiller, b
January 8, 1929 at Rosebud‑ who married March 20, 1948 to Clarence "Sam"
Fritsche.
Copyright Permission granted
to Theresa Carhart for printing the biographies of these Falls County Families
to this Web page.
"Families of Falls County", Compiled and Edited by the Falls County Historical
Commission, page 407 column 2.
Member of Falls County Historical Commission.