I wouldn’t want you to have to experience of our generation
Ludmila Plhoňová, née Kakáčová, was born on May 12, 1934 in Lažany. Father Josef worked in Zbrojovka in Brno, mother Ludmila took care of the household and farm animals, and both parents took care of the fields. From her childhood, Ludmila Plhoňová had numerous experiences connected with the war years. She remembered the arrest of gamekeeper Josef Šotola or the bombing of Kuřim. She went to elementary school in Černá Hora and Lipůvka, then graduated from a two-year school where she learned to work on a sewing machine. She started her first job at Zbrojovka Brno. She never joined the Communist Party. From her first marriage, which ended in divorce, she had a son and a daughter, the son later died tragically in a traffic accident. She had two daughters from her second marriage. After the birth of her second daughter, she started working in a cowshed. She was a long-time member of the volunteer association, where she played and later gave advice. She also practiced in Sokol and devoted herself to astronomy, reading and writing poetry for a long time. Her lifelong love was cats. In 2021, she lived in Lažany.