Digital Augusta

Augusta, Kansas

1982-03-22
Collection: 1982

Title

1982-03-22

Subject

Jordan, Bessie May

Hamm, Joyce L.

Dalke, Otto

Watson, Andrew

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

1982-03-22

Rights

In Copyright In Copyright

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Format

Clippings

Language

English

Type

application/pdf



Citation
Augusta Daily Gazette, Augusta, Kansas, USA, “1982-03-22,” Digital Augusta, accessed November 21, 2024, https://augusta.digitalsckls.info/item/31.
Text

The Augusta Daily Gazette Monday, March 22, 1982
B. Jordan Dies At 82
Bessie May Jordan, 82, 620 Osage, died yesterday at the Augusta Medical Complex.
Her service will be at 2 p.m. tomorrow at the Dunsford Funeral Home. Rev. Richard Bacon will officiate and burial will be at Elmwood Cemetery.
She was bom Sept. 17, 1899 in Augusta to Edward and Molly Mourtree Hartup.
She married Bert Jordan July 24, 1924 in El Dorado. He
preceded her in death in 1954.
She was a Christian.
Survivors include a son. Cleo Ray Jordan of Wichita; daughters, Pauline Barnes of Warsaw, Mo., Betty Tull of Fort Collins, Colo., and Dorothy Seaburn of McPherson; a step daughter, Violet Matten of Yucaipa, Calif.; a sister, Mary Wheeler of Gardner; nine grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.

Hamm Dies In Greece
Joyce L. Hamm, 56, son of Rev. C.H. Hamm who was a former Methodist minister in Augusta, died Wednesday, March 17, in Athens, Greece, where he was undergoing treatment for cancer.
His service will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the United Methodist Church in Plains.
He served as mayor of Plains and was the owner of the Hamm Insurance Agency.
Other survivors include his wife, Ruby Hamm; sons, Terry Hamm of Liberal and Mike Hamm of Plains; a brother, Joe Hamm of Kinsley and a sister, Eloise Stinson of Emporia.

Brother Dies In Newton
Otto Dalke, 58, Newton, brother of Clarence Dalke of Augusta, died Saturday at the Axtell Christian Hospital in Newton.
His service will be at 10 a.m. tomorrow at the First Baptist Church in Newton. Rev. Fred Spinder will officiate and burial will be in the Goessel Cemetery.
Friends may call until 9 o’clock tonight at the Miller Funeral Home in Goessel.
He was bom March 10, 1924 in Goessel to Alvin and Helena
Becker Dalke.
He married Wilma Welty Nov. 5, 1947 in Newton. She survives.
He was a self-employed painter and carpenter.
Other survivors include a son, Michael Roy Dalke of Wichita; two daughters, Barbara Jo Townell of Newton and Pamela Ann Dalke of the home; two other brothers, Herbert Dalke of Dallas, Texas and Alvin Dalke Jr., of Newton; a sister, Olga Schroeder of Moundridge and a grandchild.

Ex-Augustan
Andrew Watson, 73, Houston, Texas, formerly of Augusta, died Saturday in Houston.
His service will be at 11 a.m. tomorrow at the Gece Lewis
Dies At 73
Funeral Home in Houston, Texas.
A brother, Mark Watson of El Dorado, survives.

Sister Survives
The name of Grace Watson Mouser of Wichita Falls, Texas, was not listed among the survivors of former Augustan Andrew Watson, 73, Houston, Texas, who died Saturday. She is a sister of the deceased. His funeral service was today in Texas.

Original Format

Newspaper clipping