I am 62 year old grandson of Mary (Soucek) Vladyka. Mary Soucek was born in 1882 in Tama City, Iowa. Around January of 1888 her family moved to Jackson, MN. Her siblings were Frank, Agnes, James, Alice, Louie, Henry, Charlie adn Eddie.
Good friends of her family were Paul Ambrose and his sons, Alfred, Frank and John as well as the Nejedli family. Ancestors were from Bohemia. In 1906 she went to Peeksville, NY and later married Joseph Vladyka and raised a family of 12 very fine children in Hampton, NY despite the premature death (age 49) of her husband.
Maybe her father was Frank since that was the name of her oldest brother.