1919
Mr.
2010
Mr. John Adzick
August 19, 1919 — June 4, 2010
John Wesley Adzick, 90, of Prairie Village, KS., June 4, 2010. “Make sure you tell the surgeon I’m Montenegrin,” he instructed his middle daughter as he awaited general anesthesia for a hip-repair operation, five weeks before his death in Kansas City. “You just make sure to act like it,” she replied, not needing to, for no one still living could have been better versed in the stubborn pride with which her father disguised his vulnerability. He was born on August 19, 1919, in Saint Louis, the third of seven children reared by Zivko and Vidoslava Adzick. Their ancestry in the Balkan highlands would become a pole star in a life otherwise shaped by and exemplary of the American experience.
In World War II he served four years in the Army Corps of Engineers, seeing combat in New Guinea and Halmahera. He graduated from Washington University in Saint Louis in 1949. With his wife, Eve Chulick Adzick, he had three daughters, who survive him: Carol Popp (John W. Popp), Mary Linda Boling (Landy Boling), and Susan Adzick (Hal Hardin). Their love for him surpasses every measure except the love he had for them. He was known to cry without reluctance, moved to tears most readily by affection. He was devoted to his family and took uncommon joy in talking to strangers.
He worked for Hamilton Beach in Racine, WI., and Rival Manufacturing in Kansas City. He was a past president of the AMIGO trade organization for manufacturers’ representatives at the Kansas City Merchandise Mart. Once in midlife and twice in his early eighties, he made pilgrimages to Montenegro.
He will be buried in Overland Park next to his wife of 55 years, but his home remains where it always has been: in the minds and memories of his surviving family and friends. In addition to his daughters he is survived by his sisters: Mileva Kovac, Dorothy Kemper and Georgia Glogovac; his sister-in-law, Amalea Adzick; his grandchildren: Trey Popp (Liz Bowman), Emily Boling (David Oppenheim), Michael Popp, Tom Boling (Kelly Boling), Jason Popp and Ryan Popp; and his great-grandchildren: Madeline Eve and Elizabeth Carolyn Oppenheim, Noah Wesley Popp, and Thomas Sellers Boling III. He was preceded in death by his parents, his brothers, Michael and Nick Adzick and his sister Betty Sekulovich.
A funeral service will be held Sunday, June 6th at 2:00 pm at D.W. Newcomer’s Johnson County Chapel at 11200 Metcalf in Overland Park, KS 66210.
Fond memories and condolences for the family may be left at www.johnsoncountychapel.com (Arrangements: D.W. Newcomer’s Sons Johnson County Chapel, 913-451-1860)
In World War II he served four years in the Army Corps of Engineers, seeing combat in New Guinea and Halmahera. He graduated from Washington University in Saint Louis in 1949. With his wife, Eve Chulick Adzick, he had three daughters, who survive him: Carol Popp (John W. Popp), Mary Linda Boling (Landy Boling), and Susan Adzick (Hal Hardin). Their love for him surpasses every measure except the love he had for them. He was known to cry without reluctance, moved to tears most readily by affection. He was devoted to his family and took uncommon joy in talking to strangers.
He worked for Hamilton Beach in Racine, WI., and Rival Manufacturing in Kansas City. He was a past president of the AMIGO trade organization for manufacturers’ representatives at the Kansas City Merchandise Mart. Once in midlife and twice in his early eighties, he made pilgrimages to Montenegro.
He will be buried in Overland Park next to his wife of 55 years, but his home remains where it always has been: in the minds and memories of his surviving family and friends. In addition to his daughters he is survived by his sisters: Mileva Kovac, Dorothy Kemper and Georgia Glogovac; his sister-in-law, Amalea Adzick; his grandchildren: Trey Popp (Liz Bowman), Emily Boling (David Oppenheim), Michael Popp, Tom Boling (Kelly Boling), Jason Popp and Ryan Popp; and his great-grandchildren: Madeline Eve and Elizabeth Carolyn Oppenheim, Noah Wesley Popp, and Thomas Sellers Boling III. He was preceded in death by his parents, his brothers, Michael and Nick Adzick and his sister Betty Sekulovich.
A funeral service will be held Sunday, June 6th at 2:00 pm at D.W. Newcomer’s Johnson County Chapel at 11200 Metcalf in Overland Park, KS 66210.
Fond memories and condolences for the family may be left at www.johnsoncountychapel.com (Arrangements: D.W. Newcomer’s Sons Johnson County Chapel, 913-451-1860)
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