She married into a collectivized farm
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She was born on November 17, 1927 in Mělnické Vtelno near Mělník. In 1950, she married Čestmír Pelant, whose family previously owned a farmhouse no. 17. Čestmír himself farmed on the farm since 1945, when the so-called national guests left the place - in this case the Germans from Bessarabia, to whom the Pelants had to leave the farm during the war. In 1948, the Pelants were charged a high land tax, which they were unable to pay; a year later, the farm was taken over by a local unified agricultural cooperative. The Pelants continued to live in the residential area, Květa found a job in the cooperative. However, Čestmír was fired from there, so he commuted to work to the national company TOS Mělník. The couple watched their former property falling into ruins, and their two daughters did not know until they were adults that the farm on which they grew up had originally belonged to their family. After the revolution, the Pelants received financial compensation and shares in the construction company for their collectivized assets, but their value fell sharply in the following years. Květa Pelantová lived on the farm until she was old.
