Funeral services will be 12:00 p.m. on Friday, December 21, 2007 at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Friendship, Wisconsin. Father James P. McNamee will officiate. Interment will be at the St. Leo Catholic Cemetery, Adams, Wisconsin.

Visitation will be 5-8 p.m. on Thursday at Roseberry's Funeral Home, and again from 11:00 a.m. until the time of services on Friday at the Church.

Albert was born December 11, 1916 in Belle Plaine, Iowa, the son of Albert Jr. and Anna (Krajicek) Cherveny. Upon his graduation from Belle Plaine High School in 1934, Albert began working for the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. Following his father and grandfather to have a combined total of 145 years service for the same railroad.

On September 26,1940 Albert married Margaret Delores (Maynard) of Coloma at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Wautoma. They began their married life with a brand new Palace Trailer to live in so Albert could keep his young family near where he was working in various small towns around central Wisconsin. When their second baby was due they moved to a house in Adams and soon purchased their first home.

Over the next several years he worked his way up within the railroad from starting as a section laborer through several signal department positions. He took correspondence courses to learn the intricacies of the circuitry of signals and then had the position of Signal Maintainer in Watertown, South Dakota from 1947 until 1955. He advanced to lead Supervisor in Madison, WI for 2 years then returned to Adams as District Forman from 1957 until 1961. Boone, Iowa was his next location when he took the Assistant Signal Supervisor position and in 1965 became the Signal Supervisor until retirement in 1980. Albert was a member or the local 39 of the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen.

After retirement Albert and Delores spent winters in their home in Edinburg, TX and their summers in West Des Moines, IA. They did much traveling and kept in contact with the many friends they made in the various towns they resided in.

Albert was a lifetime member of the knights of Columbus, having served as Grand Knight of Council 859 while living in Watertown, SD. In 1954. Albert was a member of St. Joseph Catholic Church in Adams and Friendship.

Albert is survived by his wife, M. Delores, 2 daughters, Patricia (Francis) Kierstyn of Friendship and Nancy (Steven ) Underbakke of Plover; 2 sons, James (Judith Peters) Cherveny of Duluth, Minnesota and Thomas (Marie Lecy) Cherveny of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; 11 grandchildren and 18 Great Grandchildren. He is also survived by his sister Mildred (Lawrence) Knuth of Vinton Iowa; brothers, Donald Cherveny of Denton, Texas and Robert Cherveny of Vinton Iowa.

Albert was preceded in death by his parents, Albert and Anna (Krajicek) Cherveny; a son John Scott Cherveny; a great granddaughter Kailee Ann Kierstyn.

Memorials may be directed to the St. Joseph Catholic Church Building Fund or Adams County Historical Society.