Digital Augusta

Augusta, Kansas

1984-07-09
Collection: 1984

Title

1984-07-09

Subject

Londagin, Ernie

Reed, Fern Imo

Thummel, Arnold

Vachal, Vlad "Pete"

Wike, Amber Lucinda

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

1984-07-09

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Format

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Language

English

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Citation
Augusta Daily Gazette, Augusta, Kansas, USA, “1984-07-09,” Digital Augusta, accessed November 22, 2024, https://augusta.digitalsckls.info/item/233.
Text

The Augusta Daily Gazette
Walnut
An elderly Augusta man was struck and killed by a petroleum tanker truck while crossing a downtown street late last night.
At approximately 10:15 p.m., 70-year-old Ernie Londagin of 217 1/2 State, was crossing Walnut Street (U.S. 77) at Third Street when a southbound 1980 Peterbilt semi-trailer truck driven by Henry D. Berlin of Potwin struck him.
It was the first pedestrian traffic fatality in several years for the city.
Londagin was thrown more 100 feet by the impact, causing him to suffer massive injuries, according to authorities. He was declared dead at the scene of the accident by deputy county coroner Dr. Ron Varner and was transported to Dunsford Funeral Home in Augusta by a Butler County ambulance.
Augusta chief of police Steve Shaffer said Berlin, who was driving for Total Petroleum Inc. of Ardmore, Okla., at the time of the incident, would not be charged in the accident. Shaffer said that skid marks and the point of impact indicated that Londagin had simply come out of the darkness into the path of Berlin’s truck.
A funeral service for this construction laborer will be 3 o’clock tomorrow afternoon at the Dunsford Funeral Home chapel with Rev. George Goudie of the First Southern Baptist Church officiating. Burial will be in Seltzer Cemetery.
Ernest “Ernie” James Londagin was born May 16, 1914 in Thomas, Okla., as a son of Joseph and Mary Mullin Londagin.
He was married to the former Geneva Mae Monroe. She preceded him in death late last year.
Survivors include two sons, Keith of Custer City, Okla., and Leroy of Santa Fe, Texas; four daughters Elizabeth Jones of Texas, Darlene Giblet of Chandler, Okla., Juanita Knox of Carnie, Okla., and Pat Jackson of Davenport, Okla.; three brothers, Delbert of Haskell, Okla., Dwight and Dwane, both of Ponca City, Okla., and a sister, Thelma Havice of Augusta.

Monday, July 9, 1984
Fern Reed dies at 87
Fern Imo Reed, 87, Augusta, died Saturday.
Her service will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the Dunsford Funeral Home.
A memorial has been established with the First United Methodist Church.
Survivors include her husband Jay; sons, Lyle of Wichita, Jerald of Decatur, Ala.; daughter, Maxine Frost of Augusta; 10 grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren.

Ex-Augustan dies at 64
Arnold Thummel, 64, Bethany, Okla., formerly of Augusta, died Friday at Kinsley, Kan.
His service was at 10 a.m. today at the Church of the Epithany of the Lord in Oklahoma City, Okla. Father Philip Bryce officiated and burial was at the Resurrection Cemtery in Oklahoma City.
He was born Oct. 23, 1919 in Kansas to Charles and Bertha Simeon Thummel
He married Lorraine Klein. She survives.
He was a retired salesman for Carrier Airconditioning Co.
He was a World War II veteran.
Other survivors include sons, Donald, Alan and Craig, all of Oklahoma City; daughters, Constance Morris of Hawaii and Debra Barter of Oklahoma City; brother, Bernard, of New Mexico; sisters, Josephine Kinnamon and Bernadette Thummel, both of Kansas, Rita Adams of Kentucky, and six grandchildren.
Guardian West Funeral Home in Oklahoma City, Okla., was in charge of arrangements.

Pete Vachal dies at 79
Vlad “Pete” Vachal, 79, Augusta, died Saturday.
His service will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Downing & Lahey Mortuary in Wichita.
He was a retired farmer from the Benton area.
Survivors include brothers, James, Barney, both of Wichita, Charles E. of McPherson; sisters, Lillian Mercer of El Dorado, and Mary Anderson of Wichita.

Amber L. Wike dies at 90
Amber Lucinda Wike, 90, Augusta, died Friday.
Her service will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Dunsford Funeral Home.
Survivors include sons, Murray, Robert, both of Augusta, Virgil of Mesa, Ariz., Sam of Wichita; daughters, Opeal Robey of Wichita, Delma Pencek of Shreveport, La.; sisters, Blanche Hall of Towanda, Virgilene Coffman of El Dorado; 16 grandchildren; 24 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.

Original Format

Newspaper clipping