Frank Ambrose Sadek

Frank Ambrose Sadek was born April 16, 1888 to Frank and Hedwiga (Bartkoviak) Sadek in the State of Kief in the Ukraine in Russia. He was the oldest of ten children.

In 1908 he came to the United States and settled in Fingal area where he worked for Fred Musek.

In 1913, he married Petrunella Rominsky at Fingal. Petrunella Rominsky was born to John and Julia (Weshnevski) Rominisky (and was one of eight children) in Germany in July of 1897. Later they moved to Russia and then to the United States, settling in the Barnes County area.

Frank and Petrunella lived in Fingal, Alice and Page, and in 1936 they moved to a farm in Ashtabula Township along the Sheyenne River. They spent most of their remaining years there.

The children of this marriage are:

  1. Victoria,

  2. Agnes,

  3. Frank Jr.,

  4. Alexander,

  5. Helen,

  6. Henry,

  7. Anne,

  8. Edward,

  9. Curtis and

  10. George.

Helen passed away in 1935, and Alexander (Alex) passed away in 1945. Alex was married to Rosetta Kiester in Valley City in 1943.

Frank Jr. lives in Rio Linda, California; Mrs. Voyed (Victoria) Kimble lives in Hope; Mrs. Harold (Agnes) Nelson lives in Page. The remaining children live in Barnes County; George, Curtis, and Mrs. Gerald (Anne) Kronebusch in Sanborn, and Henry and Ed. in Rogers.

There are 35 grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren of Frank and Petrunella. One grand-daughter, Linda Kimble, passed away in 1959.

Mrs. Sadek died at the age of 49 on June 25, 1946. Frank died at the age of 81 on February 16, 1969 in Valley City.

Voyed Kimble passed away in Fargo in July, 1973. He had lived and worked in Barnes County until about 1952, when they and their three children moved to a farm a few miles north of Pillsbury.

Source: Barnes County History 1976 Page 212