Omaha couple, parents to 7 kids, killed in 1-vehicle crash (no seat belts NO life ins) Donation LINK

[Omaha Steve]

From last Monday. I just found out they have no life insurance. Everything for the funeral was donated etc.


Edit: Donation info: http://www.omaha.com/news/metro/omaha-rocker-wife-who-were-killed-in-crash-lived-for/article_e7c0f701-2c90-595f-9100-da997045235f.html

How to donate
» Call Centris Federal Credit Union in Omaha at 402-334-7000 and ask for the Frank and Yvonne Pivonka Memorial Fund.

» Contribute to the family’s Gofundme fundraiser online at www.gofundme.com/c8dtlg

Too late for the bake sale info.

Go fund me so far: 21,766 of 40k Raised by 348 people in 7 days. Does not include bake sale, food, etc.

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PHOTO COURTESY OF THE PIVONKA FAMILY

Family members, from top left: Isabelle, 13; Sabrina, 19; Abigail, 3; Yvonne, 40; Frank, 41; Jasmine, 15; Angel, 20; Sophia, 7; Frankie, 17


POSTED: MONDAY, JULY 28, 2014 4:59 PM
By Maggie O'Brien / World-Herald staff writer

An Omaha couple with seven children were killed in a one-vehicle accident near West Point, Nebraska, over the weekend when their sport utility vehicle went into a ditch and rolled several times.

Franklin J. Pivonka, 41, and his 40-year-old wife, Yvonne E. Pivonka, were pronounced dead at the scene by authorities who found the bodies about 5:20 a.m. Monday in a heavily wooded area.

Family members said they believe the couple died overnight Saturday. They filed a missing persons report Sunday.

The accident occurred on southbound Highway 275 about two miles south of West Point.

FULL story at link.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Oh, that is horrible.

I hope there is support for the family in their community.




We need the link.

[itsrobert]

2. Link

http://www.omaha.com/news/metro/omaha-couple-parents-to-kids-killed-in--vehicle-crash/article_7bd112b6-16a2-11e4-a09a-0017a43b2370.html

[Omaha Steve]

5. Thanks for adding the link

I slapped this together in a hurry.

OS

[LoisB]

3. This is beyond awful. My heart goes out to the children.

[jaysunb]

4. Here's the link to help these kids.

http://www.gofundme.com/c8dtlg

[SheilaT]

6. No seat belts????

Haven't they been standard equipment for some fifty years now? Don't most states have laws REQUIRING their use?

No insurance is somewhat easier to understand, without knowing anything at all about these people, but not using seat belts???

Not to mention SUVs are notoriously unstable and prone to rolling over, but I'm still flabbergasted at the no seat belts.

[Arugula Latte]

9. I just never understand this.

If you have two or more brain cells to rub together, you buckle your seat belt every single time.



But, yeah, I'm sorry for their deaths and sorry for their kids.

[malaise]

11. This morning I went to the credit union on campus

I offered a colleague a ride back to his office and he laughed when I put on my seat belt. I told him it was a very simple habit.

I feel it for the kids but why on earth would they not be wearing seat belts.

[Omaha Steve]

12. Seat belts are the law in Nebraska

I know seven kids that will probably remember to wear a belt every single time.

[Skidmore]

7. This appears to be the week for deaths in

light vehicles. We have had a total of 6 kids betweeen two different communities die in accidents involving light vehicles in the last three days. Four in a John Deere Gator were hit by a truck running a stop sign at an intersection of a country road. Two died on private property when their ATV rolled over a steep embankment on a creek. Four 14-year olds and two pre-teens gone.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

8. Some people think compulsory seat belt use is "government interference with my freedom".

Not when the taxpayers have to pay the ER bills after you've been splattered across the landscape because you don't understand inertia. Newton's First Law.

[BlueJazz]

10. Saddened and a little irritated. (Don't risk your children's life)