Alan Joseph Svejkovsky

To know Alan was to love Alan and be loved by Alan. If you were that person, you were blessed. We all count ourselves as one of those lucky people. He was your biggest fan, and you always felt heard by Alan. He always had your back. He was truly the best friend that anyone could ever hope for.

Alan was one of the most generous people to walk the planet. He may not have had much but you could depend on him to be there to help in any way he could, be it with physical strength (in his younger years), sage advice, or a kind word. He gave freely and was a trusted friend and sibling, father, companion and neighbor-a genuinely amazing human. But we that were close to him were probably biased. He wouldn’t give it a second thought to give the shirt off his back.  And he did that for so many over the years.

Alan, much like our dad, didn’t know a stranger.  Everyone he met was his new best buddy and I would say many felt that way about him too.

Through his philanthropic works volunteering or helping out a neighbor -he would often do this by asking them to help him so that he could give them cash for a job well done without breaking their spirit or embarrassing them, well, that was just the way he was.  Surely all the foster families he helped over the years would agree.

You have never known anyone that was more of an optimist than Alan. Faced with any number of bad turns or luck in his life or disappointment he would always find the silver lining. We like to fancy ourselves a PollyAnna too, but he beat anyone hands down! And may we add Alan was the best hugger on the planet! We will miss those hugs.

It’s no secret Alan was our favorite. Truth be told, he was probably many people’s favorite.  He had that magnetism. Alan was lovable, he was affable and just an all-around good guy that you wanted to be around- that you wanted in your life. If he was, you were blessed.

Was he perfect? No. Was he flawed? Absolutely. But aren’t we all.

His positive traits far out weighted the negatives. He made amends in his heart for those that hurt him over the years and atoned deeply for those he hurt. If you didn’t get to fix it on your end before he left us, he fixed it on his end and is at peace with you.

We all now have the best guardian angel ever. We are in good hands.

Alan, we love you and you will be sorely missed. We will miss our long phone calls where we solved all the world’s problems and laughed hysterically at the weirdness of current day events. Alan loved to share with us his favorite memes, TicTok reels and Youtube music videos. I’m sure we will forever hear in our head his infectious laugh and voice.

Thank you for being the best brother to us all.  Thank you for sharing your heart with us and loving us. Wherever you are we hope you are golfing again, are pain free and ambulatory and beating dad at cribbage- tell him we all knew he was a card counter.

Alan is survived by his children, Justin Svejkovsky (AZ) and Trisha Svejkovsky (AZ), siblings Mark (Jackie) Svejkovsky (MN), Carla (Art) Debernarde (TX), Gayle (Bob) Sedey (MN), Lisa (Jon) Schaeffer (GA) and Jan Johnson (MN).