Funeral Services for Frank C. Vana, Jr., age 76, of May, Texas will be held 2:00 PM Monday, July 18, 2016 at Grace Lutheran Church with Pastor Curtis Schneider officiating. Interment with military honors will follow at Eastlawn Memorial Park. The family will receive friends 5:00 – 7:00 PM Sundy at Heartland Funeral Home. Mr. Vana passed away Sunday, July 11, 2016 in the Comanche County Medical Center.
Frank Charles Vana, Jr. was born July 2, 1940 at Omaha, Nebraska the youngest child of Frank C. and Maryellen Whetstone Vana. After graduating from Technical High School in 1958, Frank joined the United States Army on August 1, 1962 and was honorably discharged from the U.S. Army Reserves with the rank of staff sergeant on August 1, 1968. Frank was baptized and confirmed at First Lutheran Church in Omaha, Nebraska. On, August 31, 1979 he married E. Jean Vana in Corpus Christ, Texas and they were members of Grace Lutheran Church in Brownwood. Frank had a wide variety of career opportunities from craft to management over a 50 year span. They consisted of tool room machinist, carpenter, millwright, telephone craftsman, telephone manager, punch press job shop manager, independent contractor, and home builder.
Survivors include his wife Jean Vana of May; sons Timothy L. and wife Terry of Pittsburg, Texas and John T. and wife Patricia of Brawley, California and their sons Christian Alan of Oak Harbor, Washington, Avery Thomas and Noah Brendan of Brawley, CA. He is also survived by many nieces and nephews and their children and great grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents, sisters Della Mae and Rose Marie and his brothers Leo , Ralph, William, Richard, Raymond, George, and Samuel.