Funeral rites will be held this afternoon (Thursday) at the Leiser Funeral Home here for Mrs. John Najbrt, long-time community resident, who passed away Monday at the home of a son, Elmer, in the Town of Goetz.

MRS. NAJBRT'S death came after an illness of several months' duration.

Rev. Cletus Hair will officiate at the 2:00 services; pallbearers will be Chas Naiberg, Wm. Buresh, Felix Novak, John Roth, John Kane, and Frank Gingras.  Burial will be in the Bohemian National Cemetery.

Born July 14, 1875, in Czechoslovakia, Louise Vales came to this country with her parents.  They located in Chicago and later moved to Clarkson, Nebraska, and then West, Nebraska, where she met John Najbrt and they were married there a year later, on October 17, 1892.

They resided in David County, Nebraska, five years and then in Minnesota for a time before coming to Wisconsin in 1900.  Four years later they moved to Washington, but in 1910 returned to settle in the town of Goetz, where they since resided.

MRS. NAJBRT was a fifty-year member of the ZCBJ Lodge; in 1942 she and her husband celebrated their golden wedding anniversary.

She is survived by her husband; two sons, Alfred of Manitowoc and Elmer of Goetz; two daughters, Mrs. Rose Naiberg of Cadott and Mrs. Orville (Sylvia) Collum of Cornell; sixteen grandchildren and 21 great-grandchildren.