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Joseph was born to Anna and Anton Kucera at the Tama County Howard Township family farm.
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Joe Graduated from Toledo Public High, in Toledo, Iowa.
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Joe had surgery to remove one of his kidneys.
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The Great Depression was when steep declines in industrial output and rising levels of unemployment was failing and companies laid off workers. By 1933, when the Great Depression reached its low point, 13 to 15 million Americans were unemployed and nearly half of the country’s banks had failed.
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After his Father's death Joe was left trying to deal with his recent loss and assisting his mother and family on the farm.
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Joe bought 167 acres of farmland to start his own farm and life.
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Joe and Margaret got married Tuesday morning at 9:30 on November 25, 1941, at St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church in rural Clutier, Iowa. Father Thomas Vopatek performed their wedding ceremony. Joe and Margaret began their life together on Joe’s farm where he had been living and working.
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Joe's Hemp Turner Machine was invented to help us make rope in the United States during World War II.
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Joe died in Covenant Medical Center, Waterloo, Iowa, after suffering a stroke.
