Obituaries
Harry Marti
Sep 13, 2007
Harry Adolph Marti was born March 9, 1922 to Louie and Martha (Sommer) Martiin Bern, Kansas, where he was raised and graduated from high school. He served in the US Navy as a radio operator during WWII and continued this work after leaving the Navy. He returned to the Bern area in 1960 and lived there until moving to...
Elgin Hartter
Sep 10, 2007
Elgin Hartter was born on June 15, 1944 the son of John Hartter and Mary Helen Butterfield Hartter at Ottawa, Kansas. He was one of three children born to this union. Elgin attended and graduated from Sabetha High School in 1962. He then attended the Ottawa University from 1963 until 1964. He received one of the first golf scholarships...
Elizabeth Wilson
Sep 8, 2007
Elizabeth "Betty" (Breon) Wilson, 85, of St. Joseph, passed away Saturday, September 8, 2007. Betty was born August 18, 1922, to Samuel and Emilie Breon, in Sabetha, Kansas. She spent her childhood there and graduated from Sabetha High School in 1940. After graduation she worked various office jobs in Sabetha. On June 9, 1945, she married Theodore "Bud" Wilson,...
Earl Hightower
Sep 3, 2007
Earl A. Hightower, 95, of Bern, went to be with his Lord on Monday, September 3, 2007. He was born January 31, 1912, in Dayton, New Mexico to Howard and Dona Hightower. On June 9, 1935, 72 years ago, he married Maude E. "Maudie" Jerome. She survives of the home in Sabetha. Other survivors include their children, Ray and...
Martha Unkefer
Aug 29, 2007
Martha Ann Unkefer, Age 85, died peacefully on August 29, 2007. Born November 11, 1921 in Tarkio, MO to Evelyn and Morris Hall. Martha grew up in Missouri and Kansas and graduated from Fairview High School in Fairview, KS in 1939 and then the University of Kansas after working as a civilian airport radio operator during WWII. Martha married...
Cleta Lewis
Aug 24, 2007
Cleta, Lewis, 89, of Centralia, KS died Friday, August 24, 2007 at the Eastridge Care Home in Centralia. She was born May 18, 1918 on a farm northwest of Centralia the daughter of Martin Alexander Bell and Sophie Shaffer Bell. She graduated from Centralia High School in 1936. She received a Bachelor's Degree in 1956 and received her master's...
Neal Sawyer
Aug 20, 2007
Neal Sawyer, 90, of Sabetha, Ks. died Monday, August 20, 2007 at the Sabetha Community Hospital. Neal was born April 04, 1917 at the family farm in Fairview, Ks. the son of Lawrence and Bessie VanDalsem Sawyer. He was one of five children born in this union. Neal was a field man for the Mid- American Dairymen in Sabetha....
Mavis Meyer
Aug 12, 2007
Mavis Louise Meyer, 80, of Sabetha died Sunday, August 12, 2007 at Stormont-Vail Hospital in Topeka. She was born at Sabetha, KS on December 3, 1926, the daughter of John P. and Marie Frieden Strahm. After graduating from Bern High School in 1944, she obtained her teaching certificate from Emporia Teachers College, and taught one year at Eureka country...
Keith Brooks
Aug 9, 2007
Keith Allen Brooks, 72, died Thursday, Aug. 9, 2007, at the Ap-ostolic Christian Home in Sabetha, surrounded by family and loved ones. He was born in Sabetha on July 23, 1935. He attended school in Sabetha and graduated from Sabetha High School, where he was an outstanding athlete. After high school he attended Ottawa University in Ottawa, where he...
John Kaufman
Aug 7, 2007
John William Kaufman, 80, of Sabetha, formerly of Fairbury, IL passed away Tuesday, August 7, 2007 at the Apostolic Christian Home in Sabetha. John was born the son of Jacob and Clara (Bach) Kaufman on November 18, 1926 in Fairbury, IL. He graduated from high school in Silverton, OR before serving his country in the US Navy. John was...
Sue Durland
Jul 28, 2007
Sue Durland, 60, of Centralia, KS died Saturday, July 28, 2007 at the Onaga Community Hospital in Onaga, KS. She was born September 20, 1946 in Axtell, KS the daughter of Nelson G. Torrey and Rose Mary Henry Torrey. She graduated from Axtell High School in 1964. On November 5, 1965 she married Richard Durland at Axtell, KS, he...
Mary "Betty" Meyer
Jul 24, 2007
Mary "Betty" Elizabeth Meyer was born on August 23, 1922 the daughter of Bruce Beecher Brower and Mary Margaret Searing Brower at Centralia, Kansas. She was one of seven children born to this union. She grew up in the Centralia area and attended Centralia school and graduated from Centralia High School. She was united in marriage to Joy Lee...
Harold Lortscher
Jul 17, 2007
LT. CMDR. HAROLD G. ("HAL") LORTSCHER, 91, of Denver, CO, died Tuesday, July 17, 2007 after being admitted for 48 hours to Swedish Hospital in Denver, CO. His death was a result of waging a long and very determined battle with cancer. He was born January 28, 1916, on the family farm located in Berwick between Bern and Sabetha,...
Alice Gabbert
Jul 14, 2007
Alice Maxine (Johnstone) Gabbert, 93, of sabetha passed away on Saturday, July 14, 2007 at the sabetha Manor. Alice was born the daughter of Harry and Rella (Neff) Johnstone in Kelly, KS on Friday, September 19, 1913. In her early life, her family had temporarily moved to the Campus-Oakley area of western Kansas, before moving back to nemaha County...
Ralph Ward Sr.
Jul 8, 2007
Centralia, Kansas - Ralph Benjamin Ward Sr., 94, died Sunday morning, July 8, 2007, at the Onaga Community Hospital in Onaga, KS. Ralph was born April 19, 1913 in Vermillion the son of George B. Ward and Larry Horton Ward. He attended country school south of Centralia. On February 7, 1934 in Wilsey, KS Ralph married Irene Frances Harris,...
Joan Wenger
Jun 16, 2007
Joan A. Wenger was born on October 8, 1933 the daughter of Frederick Heideman and Elizabeth "Laura" Blocker Heideman. She was one of nine children born to this union. She grew up on a farm northeast of Seneca, Kansas and attended St. Peter and Paul Schools. She graduated from St. Peter and Paul High School in 1951. Joan worked...
Edna Mai
Jun 15, 2007
Edna Mai, 78, passed away Thursday, June 15, 2007 at the Sabetha Manor. Services are pending with Popkess Mortuay of Sabetha.
John Edelman
Jun 13, 2007
John Jacob Edelman was born on July 26, 1923 the son of John D. Edelman and Mary Bauman Edelman at Sabetha, Kansas. He was one of 14 children born to this union. He grew up in the Sabetha area 4 miles west of the Sabetha Hospital. Attended IXL District 40 School until the 8th grade. He entered into farming...
Frank Craig, Jr.
Jun 11, 2007
Frank "Toby" Craig, Jr., 81, of Topeka, formerly of Bern passed away Monday, June 11, 2007 at his home. He was born the son of Frank Sr. and Lucile E. (McMurry) Craig on October 10, 1925 in Bern. Frank graduated from Bern High School in 1944 and then served his country in the Army Air Corps during WWII. He...
Albert Fountain
Jun 7, 2007
Albert Paul Fountain was born on October 27, 1924 the son of Robert L. Fountain, Sr. and Lulu V. Kolepfer Fountain at Sabetha, Kansas. Al grew up in the Sabetha area and graduated from Sabetha High School as salutatorian on May of 1942. Al served one year in pre-med at Kansas University before being drafter before World War II....
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