I can milk the cows even without any a special school
Alena Gavendová, née Fluksová, was born on 5 October, 1942 in the village of Krásná in Beskydy mountains to the farmer, Augustin Fluks and his wife Teresie. It was fifteen years after the older brother of Emil and seven years before the younger brother Ladislav. Soon after war the Fluks´ moved to the farmhouse confiscated after the Germans in Košetice near Opava. Alena attended the first grade of the elementary school in Velké Heraltice. Soon after her 14th birthday she began working in the floral department in the local agriculture cooperative. In 1960 she married Oldřich Gavenda, and a year later got birth to the son Oldřich. Several years later the daughter Pavlína and a son Michal were born. In 1962 Alena Gavendová began working in Ostroj in Opava in the department of manual adjustment and continued working there until 1996, when she retired. During retirement she helped out her husband with the administration of the local shooting range.