Source: Iowa Veterans Remembrance Project

Toney Francis Mycka Jr, U.S. Army, Corporal

Biography:

Toney Francis Mycka was raised in Sioux City and he had five siblings. His parents owned restaurants in the Sioux City area, the Homestead Cafe and Toney's Fine Foods Restaurant. After high School Mycka joined the Army and trained as an infantryman. He was sent to South Vietnam in April 1969. Two months into his deployment he was killed in an accident. On June 20, 1969 a munitions depot accidentally exploded, killing Mycka and three others. He was 19 years old at the time of his death. His body was returned to Iowa and laid to rest at the Mount Calvary Cemetery in Sioux City. Both his parents where later buried at the Mount Calvary Cemetery as well.

Source: Sioux City Journal, June 26, 1969

The body of Toney Mycka Jr., 19, 311 McCook Lake, who was killed Friday (June 20, 1969) while serving with the 25th Infantry Division in Vietnam, will be brought to the funeral home in Sioux City.

Mr. Mycka was born Nov. 25, 1949, in Sioux City.  He attended Blessed Sacrament Elementary School and was graduated from Heelan High School in June 1968.  He joined the Army in July 1968, and was sent to Vietnam in April 1969.

He was engaged to marry Linda Kay Murphy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William J. Murphy, 508 38th St. Place.  The couple had not set a wedding date.

Survivors besides the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Toney Mycka Sr. of McCook Lake; include three brothers, Richard of Marshalltown, Iowa, and Robert and Michael, both of Sioux City; and two sisters, Mrs. Henry (Mary Ann) Nasternak of Buffalo, NY and Mrs. William (Patti) Staempfli Jr. of Newburgh, NY.

Source: Sioux City Journal, July 2, 1969

Pfc. Mycka Funeral Set

Funeral services for Army Pfc. Toney Francis Mycka Jr., 311 McCook Lake, who was killed June 20 in South Vietnam, will be at 9 a.m. Saturday (July 5, 1969) at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church. The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Newman Flanagan will officiate.  Military rites will be conducted in Calvary Cemetery.

Members of a military unit will be pallbearers.

Honorary pallbearers will be Jeff Schwinden, Terry Muff, Fred Palensky, Steve Duggan, Dan Payer, Bob Wickstrom and Douglas Miller.

The Rosary will be recited at 7 p.m. at the Rutledge Funeral Home by members of the Heelan High School Colass of 1968, at 8 p.m. Friday by parishioners and at 8:30 p.m. Friday by the Catholic Daughters of America.

Pfc. Mycka, son of Mr. and Mrs. Toney F. Mycka Sr., of McCook Lake, was attached to the 25th Infantry Division.  He entered military service in July 1968, and was sent to South Vietnam in April 1969.

A memorial to orphanages has been established in Pfc. Mycka's name.