Shramek, Joseph Home

1904 tax roll lists the owner as Joseph Shramek, Block 3, Lots 8, 9 & 12, Litty's 2nd Addition, value $500. This home was replaced with a 3-story brick home, which was occupied by the Shramek family until the 1950's. The brick home was donated to the Catholic Nuns of Wichita, KS, and became the first building in the St. Joseph's Villa nursing home complex. Joseph Shramek was born Feb. 6, 1870 in Des Moines, Iowa to Joseph and Frances Burian Shramek. He married Anna Kasparek Nov., 25, 1897, and they raised 5 children. He was president of of the Butler Co. State Bank, owner of a Wholesale Liquor Distributing Co, and rancher. He promoted a minor league baseball team, of which David City was a member. He was also one of ten men on the building committee for St. Mary's Church, which was dedicated in 1911.