Oscar & Elsie Wilk

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Oscar was born in Stuttgart, AR and later moved to Illinois and Nebraska with his family. He attended school in Concordia, MO for two years and graduated from Concordia in Seward, NE in 1920 with a teaching degree. He taught Lutheran school in Waco, NE from 1920 to 1927 before moving on to Leigh, NE. Elsie was born in Leigh and confirmed at Zion Lutheran there. She graduated from Leigh High School in 1917 and taught school for two years just north of Leigh. After her mother's death, she gave up teaching to make a home for her father, brother, and younger sister. After the brother and sister married, she worked as a clerk at J.F. McKinley drug store for the two years before she married. Oscar lived in the teacherage across the street from where Elsie lived with her father. They married and lived in the teacherage together until Oscar switched to teaching in the public school, at which time they moved in with Elsie's father. They moved to Schuyler, NE in 1938. Oscar started working as an education consultant for the Nebraska State Employment Service in 1942. He and Elsie lived in two different houses in Columbus, NE before moving to Omaha, NE in 1952. Oscar retired in 1964, and following Elsie's death lived with daughter Donna in Minnetonka, MN.

Zion Lutheran, Leigh, NE	Zion Lutheran Schoolhouse where Oscar Wilk taught
Oscar & Elsie Wilk House Leigh, NE	Oscar & Elsie Wilk House Omaha, NE