Bud was born on Jan. 11, 1927, in Loma to Theodore and Christie (Ratkovec) Kudlacek. He grew up in the Loma and Brainard area. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II from Jan. 9, 1945, to ...

What would have been a tragedy in Kudlacek’s eyes is if he had not moved the bulk of his music collection — close to 20,000 individual compact discs and records, from modern albums to antique ...