Digital Augusta

Augusta, Kansas

2005-02-205
Collection: 2005

Title

2005-02-205

2005-02-25

Subject

Wike, Cora E.

Starkey, Alberta Haaga

Description

Obituaries published in the Augusta Daily Gazette

Creator

Augusta Daily Gazette [Kansas]

Source

Augusta Historical Museum, Augusta, Kansas

http://augustahistoricalsociety.com

Publisher

Augusta Public Library, Augusta, Kansas, USA

Date

2005-02-28

Rights

In Copyright In Copyright

Published with permission of copyright holder. Further reproduction prohibited.

Format

Clippings

Language

English

Type

application/pdf

Identifier

b10#17 2005



Citation
Augusta Daily Gazette [Kansas], “2005-02-205,” Digital Augusta, accessed November 21, 2024, https://augusta.digitalsckls.info/item/1508.
Text

Cora E. Wike

Cora E. Wike, 92, Augusta, homemaker and co-owner of Murray Wike Water Well Drilling, passed away on Friday, Feb. 25, 2005.
Visitation from 1 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, with family to greet friends from 6 to 7 p.m.; service at 1 p.m. Wednesday, March 2, all at Headley Funeral Chapel in Augusta.
She is survived by sons, Ralph and his wife Mary of Harper, Norman and his wife Peggy of Wichita; daughters, Melba Staats and her husband Harold and Patricia Fletcher and her husband Raymond, all of Wichita, and Ruby Simon and her husband Junior of Augusta; 14 grandchildren; 31 great-grandchildren; nine great-great-
grandchildren.
Memorials to Leukemia Society of America.
Arrangements are under the direction of Headley Funeral Chapel of Augusta.

Alberta Haaga Starkey

Alberta Haaga Starkey, 98, Douglass, passed away on Friday, Feb. 25, 2005.
Graveside service will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday, March 1, at Latham Cemetery.
Visitation today until 8 p.m., with family to greet friends from 6 to 8 p.m., at Headley Funeral Chapel’ in Augusta.
She was born near Altanta on May 9, 1906, the daughter of the late Edward and Ocea M. (Johnson) Tomlin. Alberta worked as a cook at many local restaurants and had been employed at Boeing during World War II and after.
She is survived by: sons, -Bob and his wife Kate Haaga of El Dorado, Billy and his wife Anne Haaga of Douglass; step son, Tom and his wife Lois Starkey of Burden; step daughter, Betty and her husband Esli Burden of Pittsburg; sister,
Ruth Bacon of Augusta; nine grandchildren, Rex Stevens of Arkansas City, Deann Korte and Billye Stull, both of Augusta, Janett Doile and Christi Dutcher, both of El Dorado, Kathy Lockhart and Scott Haaga, both of Douglass, Steve Haaga of Rock, and Jack Haaga of Rose Hill; 13 great-grandchildren; 12 great-great-grandchildren; one step grandchild; three step great-grandchildren; two step great-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by husbands, Homer Haaga and Morell Starkey; son, Gene Rex Haaga, daughter, Helen Stevens, four brothers, one sister, and one step grandchild.
Memorials to Heartland Home Health Care & Hospice of Derby or Medicalodge of Douglass.
Headley Funeral Chapel of Augusta has charge of the arrangements.

Original Format

Newspaper clippings affixed to loose-leaf notebook page