Like many Czech residents of his day, Joe F. Honza, Sr. (1896-1955) was a devoted father and husband as well as a successful farmer in the Ennis area. His son, Lawrence Honza, remembers him as hard-working, dependable and caring, again not unlike many men who supported their families in the first half of the 20th century.
“Dad farmed a half section with two-thirds of the acreage in cultivation,” La…
