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Frank Sillik loved football, his family said.
He began playing at age 8, said his mother, Katherine Sillik of Glenwood, Iowa. He was still playing in high school, first at Omaha North and then at Thomas Jefferson in Council Bluffs.
He also played for the Little Vikes program in Omaha.
Frank M. Sillik died Saturday at Creighton University Medical Center, said his mother. He was 33 and died from injuries suffered when he was struck by an SUV, she said.
On Aug. 17, he left a Metro Area Transit bus at Fontenelle Boulevard and Kansas Avenue, walked behind the bus and was crossing Fontenelle midblock when he was hit, police said. The SUV driver was not ticketed.
Even when the job market was tight, Sillik always found work, said his mother.
“He was working construction,” she said, though he usually laid carpet. He also had served in the Army, she said.
Because Sillik had an organ donor sticker on his driver’s license, his kidneys and liver were harvested and given to three people on a waiting list, his mother said.
Other survivors include his children, Nicolas, Martina, Serenity, Katherine and Chance Sillik, all of Omaha; and his parents, Roger and Katherine Sillik.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Thursday at Roeder Mortuary, 50th Street and Ames Avenue.
“He was a big fan of the Huskers,” Frank Sillik’s mother said, so he will be buried wearing Big Red attire.
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444-1165, sue.truax@owh.com
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