ERNEST VANEK
Assistant Coach,
Played on KU's 1932-34 teams.
Ernest J. Vanek, 88, died May 19 near his home in Bella Vista, Ark.
Vanek lettered in four sports before graduating from KU and serving as an
assistant basketball coach and director of the National Youth Administration of
Douglas County. He also coached at Herington, Wichita, North Topeka High and
College of Emporia before entering the sporting goods business as sales and
general manager for 28 years.
His wife, Dorothy Streit, survives of the home. Other survivors include two
sons, Larry, Tulsa, Okla., and Michael, Peoria, Ill.; a stepson, Richard Streit,
Kansas; a stepdaughter, Marilyn Zastrow, Grand Island, Neb.; five grandchildren;
and eight stepgrandchildren.
Source: www.oread.ku.edu 6/9/2000