Digital Augusta

Augusta, Kansas

1983-07-14
Collection: 1983

Title

1983-07-14

1983-07-15

Subject

Whitson, Wilda

Keen, Grace Mae

DeHaven, Verna Lucille

Runer, Rufus A.

Harrell, Millie

Description

Obituaries published in the Augusta Daily Gazette

Creator

Augusta Daily Gazette, Augusta, Kansas, USA

Source

Augusta Historical Museum, Augusta, Kansas, USA

Publisher

Augusta Public Library, Augusta, Kansas, USA

Date

1983-07-14

1983-07-15

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Language

English

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Citation
Augusta Daily Gazette, Augusta, Kansas, USA, “1983-07-14,” Digital Augusta, accessed November 1, 2024, https://augusta.digitalsckls.info/item/146.
Text

The Augusta Daily Gazette
Thursday, July 14, 1983
Whitson Dies At AMCI-LTC
Mrs. Wilda Whitson, 79, Benton, died Wednesday evening at the Augusta Medical Complex long term care facility.
Her service will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Palmyra Baptist Church in Benton. Dr. Dale Sneeringer will officiate and burial will be in the Benton Cemetery.
Services are pending at the Downing and Lahey Mortuary in Wichita.
Survivors include her husband, Clifford of Benton; daughters, Mrs. Norma Little and Mrs. Wauna Fuller, both of Augusta; sons, Milton of Augusta, Ivan of Wichita and Troy of Seminole, Okla.; sisters, Gladys Harrison of Arizona; Dora Stuber of Wichita; brothers, Roy Winter-mote of El Dorado and Leonard Wintermote of Michigan; 13 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren. Two sons and one daughter preceded her in death.

Grace Keen Dies At AMCI
Grace Mae Keen, 87, 620 Osage, died today at the Augusta Medical Complex.
Her services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Dunsford Funeral Home. Rev. Richard Axmann will officiate and burial will be at the Elmwood Cemetery.
She was born June 15, 1896 in
Flatrock, Ill., to Jesse and Etta Mae Hughes Cox.
She married Fred F. Keen May 30, 1915 in Patoka, Ind. He preceded her in death in 1970.
She was a homemaker. She was a member of the First Baptist Church, the Eastern Star and EHU.
Survivors include daughters, Bernice O. Frety of Harlingen, Texas, Olive Richey of Augusta and Elizabeth Stagner of Pleasaton; a brother, Salvation Army Commander Clyde Cox of Arlington Heights, Ill.; a sister, Mary Phillips of Princeton, Ind.; five grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.

Grandmother Dies At 87
Verna Lucille DeHaven, 87, Wichita, grandmother of Marilyn Phillips and Carolyn Patten, both of Augusta, died Tuesday at St. Francis Regional Medical Center in Wichita.
Her service will be at 1 p.m. Friday at the Cochran Mortuary in Wichita.
A memorial has been established with the American Diabetes Association.
Other survivors include sons, John A. of Springfield, Mo., Dean E. of Wichita, Earl R. of Mulvane; daughters, Jeanne at home, Patsy Black, Peggy Koerner, Ruth Holland, all of Wichita, Alice Hahn of Viola, Rachel Traxler of Selma, Ala., Helen Rogg of Russell; 32 other grandchildren; 58 great grandchildren and 10 great-great-grandchildren.

Father Dies In Wichita
Rufus A. Runer, 77, Wichita, father of Faun Norman of Augusta, died Tuesday at St. Joseph Medical Center in Wichita.
His service will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday at the Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Memorial Chapels in Iola. Rev. Robert Lourance will officiate and burial will be in the Iola Cemetery.
He was born Jan. 14, 1906 in Geneva to David and Dollie Shultz Runer.
He married Bernice Gerhart Jan. 18, 1936. She survives.
He was a retired carpenter. Other survivors include sons, Harvie of Hagarville, Ark., Jim of Bruce, Miss.; other daughters, Fern Ball of Bowie, Texas, Linda of Wichita; a brother, Forest of Colony; a sister, Vera McDowell of Topeka; six grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.

Friday, July 15, 1983
Sister Dies In Wichita
Millie Harrell, 49, Wichita, sister of James L. Hammond of Augusta, died Wednesday at Wesley Medical Center in Wichita.
Her service was at 10 a.m. today at the DeVorss Mortuary in Wichita. Rev. Jesse H. Vardaman officiated.
A memorial has been established with the American Cancer Society.
She was born Jan. 1, 1934 in Wagoner, Okla., to Mancer and Edna Wheeler Cleveland.
She was a laboratory technician at Wesley Medical Center in Wichita.
Other survivors include daughters, Jamie Gilbert and Jill Raden, both of Wichita; brothers, Calvin W. and Bobbie J. Hammond, both of Wichita, and a grandchild.

Memorial Set For G. Keen
A memorial has been established at the First Baptist Church for Grace Keen, 87, Augusta. Keen died yesterday at the Augusta Medical Complex.
Her services are at 2 p.m. tomorrow at the Dunsford Funeral Home.
Among the survivors is a daughter, Bernice O. Fretz of Harlingen, Texas, whose name was misspelled in yesterday’s paper.

Original Format

Newspaper clipping