Obit – Mr. Ted Balicki Sr.
Mr. Ted Balicki Sr. age 81, a hobby farmer of the Kempville Community, was pronounced deceased at 2:22 p.m. Saturday afternoon April 20, 2024 at the Riverview Regional Medical Center in Carthage where he was admitted April 15th with respiratory problems.
Mr. Balicki was at the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home where his family will received friends Friday April 26th from 3 p.m. until 8 p.m.
On Saturday April 27th his remains were transferred by Southwest Airline from BNA in Nashville to Midway Airport in Chicago, Illinois to the Kosary Funeral Home in Evergreen, Illinois for funeral services to be conducted on Tuesday April 29th at 3 p.m. and interment will be private for the family.
Mr. Balicki was born Theodore John Balicki Sr. in Chicago in Cook County Illinois on January 16, 1943 and was the son of the late Theodore Balicki who died on July 25, 1945 at the age of 37 and Caroline Bres Balicki who died on January 26, 2002 at the age of 90.
Mr. Balicki was a 1961 graduate of Lindbloom Math and Science Academy in Chicago.
In Chicago, Illinois on October 17, 1964, he was united in marriage to Chicago native, the former Marilyn Murnane. She peceded Mr. Balicki in death at the age of 73 on August 30, 2017 following almost fifty three years of marriage.
Mr. Balicki, known to friends as “T-Bar”, stated he and his wife desired to live in a quitter place and he found that, when in 1994 he and his wife relocated from Chicago when he purchased the former Gid and Margie Holland Forkum farm on Gladdice Road in the Kempville Community.
Mr. Balicki desired the following statements to be listed in his obituary which exemplified his feelings about his retired life: No worries, No Plans, No Business, Too lazy to work, Too healthy to beg, Too nervous to steal, No money, No future, Ain’s got much, Don’t want much, Ain’t mad at nobody, Waiting for the 1st of the month. Reckon how long he had to study and come up with the joy he experienced since relocating to Smith County.
Mr. Balicki was a retired over the road truck driver for the Marshall Fields Corporation.
He was of the Catholic faith.
Surviving is his son, Ted Balicki Jr. and grandson Ted “Teddy” Balicki both of Nashville; sister, Joan Hamann of Chicago; nephew and nieces, Kyle, Haley and Carley.
The Balicki family has requested memorials to the St. Jude Childrens Hospital in Memphis.
SANDERSON of CARTHAGE
