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- «i»Narrated in 2014 by Bohumil (iii) VOLESKÝ :«/i»
Grand-ma «u»«b»RŮŽENA VOLESKÁ«/u»«/b» was a wiry and rather a strict woman. She must have been quite a supportive partner to her husband throughout their life together. They had a summer house in Klánovice u Prahy. I have a vague memory of being there (probably several times, 1943, 1945-48) and learning to rake a pattern on a garden path with grand-pa. With a couple of the Hellers brothers (Zdeněk & Vladík) we roamed a fallow field across the main street playing cowboys and indians.
She eventually left her Karlín apartment (that was swelling with tenants) and came to live with her widowed daughter, aunt «b»VĚRA DOLANSKÁ«/b», in Brno. For summers, they stayed in the Dolanskýs' rural retreat outside of Rájec nad Svitavou where I also spent summers as a boy of around 10.
At her advanced age, Grand-ma Růžena underwent a colo-rectal cancer operation and lived with a fecal side bag until the ripe age of 98 (†1974).
Aunt Věra had to evetually leave her Brno apartment (náměstí Svobody 3) and died at 98 (†1995) living in a retirement institution. I never knew much about just exactly how uncle «b»VLADIMÍR DOLANSKÝ«/b» passed away - he was arrested by the Germans at the very end of the war and died in April 1945 in a prison I dont quite know where. He was a prominent Brno lawyer (JUDr) representing Moravia nobility (the Belcredis, the Coloredo-Mansfelds of Boskovice, the Salms of Rájec, etc.) and so their life was full of a 'high society' earls and dukes who also came to unwind visting at the Dolansky's property in Rájec.
Those summer vacations that I spent as a boy in Rájec around the swimming pool (rare then !) in a private forest were some of the best times of my life. Later, I visited Rájec again several times, only to see the property slowly deteriorate. Following aunt Věra's death, the summer house became totally abandoned. The derelict property was a subject of some inheritance litigation (the Zátkas and some strange Brno family - my sister Marie also involved) and keeps deteriorating further - with the whole 2-hectare (formerly) fenced forest property quite neglected.
- (Medical):Narrated from memory by Bohumil(iii) VOLESKY, her grandson, in 2014:
RŮŽENA VOLESKÁ was a wiry woman, quite energetic and fit for most of her life.
Late in her life, she left Praha and moved in with her widowed daughter VĚRA Voleská-DOLANSKÁ who lived in Brno, Czech Rep.
As an old lady (her 80s ?) she developed a colo-rectal cancer and was operated on. She recovered well, however, from then on she was feable and had to live with a fecal bag.
Her son (Bohumil, II) died in Praha before her in June 1974 which was kept secret from her. She followed him shortly thereafter (1974-10-14) - died in a Brno hospital.
Unfortunately, I do not know the details as I was then already living in Canada (BV-III).
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