Lenore Vondracek Filip, 96 of Cedar Rapids, died Monday, June 16, 2014 at Meth-Wick Community. Celebration of Life Services will be Friday, July 18, 2014 at 3 p.m. at Brosh Chapel in Cedar Rapids, located at 2121 Bowling Street SW. A Celebration Gathering will be from 2 until 3 p.m. Friday. Inurnment will follow in Czech National Cemetery. Lenore was born August 26, 1917 in Yale, South Dakota, the daughter of Emil and Anna (Volesky) Vondracek. After graduating from Yale High School in 1934, she attended Cedar Rapids Business College. Upon graduating in 1935, she was employed as a secretary in the law offices of Guy Linville and Carl Hendrickson in Cedar Rapids. In 1939 she went to Chicago to work for a New York Stock Exchange Firm on LaSalle Street. On August 20, 1940 she was united in marriage with Robert Thomas Filip, the son of Frank and Marie Filip, of Cedar Rapids. Robert preceded her in death on February 23, 1995. In July of 1941 they moved from Chicago to Clinton, Iowa, where Robert was Treasurer of Fidelity Life Association located at Fulton, Illinois. They lived in Clinton until January 1969 when Robert was named Vice President and Treasurer of Mutual Trust Life Insurance Company in Oakbrook, Illinois. They returned to the Chicago area living in the western suburb of Downers Grove until Robert's retirement in 1980. Lenore was a member of the First United Methodist Church, a 50 year member of the P.E.O. Sisterhood and a 50 year member of the Order of the Eastern Star. She contributed many volunteer hours of work to the American Red Cross, Jane Lamb Hospital and her church when living in Clinton and Downers Grove. Since her move to the Methwick Community in April of 1996, she has given many hours of service to St. Luke's Hospital as a volunteer. Lenore is survived by her nieces, Kaye (O'Keefe) Wolkow of De Smet, South Dakota and Carolyn (O'Keefe) Brandt of Shoreview, Minnesota, and Susan Filip Bearbower of Cedar Rapids. She was preceded in death by her husband, Robert Thomas Filip; her sister, Irma O'Keefe of De Smet, South Dakota; and her brother, Leon Vondracek of Belle Fourche, South Dakota. Memorials may be directed to the family.