Digital Augusta

Augusta, Kansas

1985-12-26
Collection: 1985

Title

1985-12-26

1985-12-27

Subject

Wall, Theta Jean

LeMay, Donald Edward

Rippee, Homer Harold

Schreiber, Clarence Emil

Johnson, Winfred "Winnie" Harold

Hamann, Vivian Marie

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

1985-12-26

1985-12-27

Format

Clippings

Language

English

Type

application/pdf



Citation
Augusta Daily Gazette, Augusta, Kansas, USA, “1985-12-26,” Digital Augusta, accessed May 5, 2024, https://augusta.digitalsckls.info/item/349.
Text

The Augusta Daily Gazette
Thursday, December 26, 1985
Theta Jean Wall service tomorrow
A funeral service for Theta Jean Wall, 59, Route 2, will be at 2 p.m. tomorrow at the Dunsford Funeral Home.
She died Tuesday at St. Joseph Regional Medical Center in Wichita.
Rev. Art Wilson will officiate and burial will be in the Elmwood Cemetery.
She was born Oct. 12, 1926 in Augusta to Eugene M. and Icy P. Warner Ridge.
She was a employee at K-Mart in Wichita for 16 years.
She was also a member of the VFW, American Legion and Moose Lodges auxiliaries in El Dorado.
Survivors include son, Lonnie of Leon; a daughter, Kathy Caudillo of Kansas City, Mo.; mother, Icy Ridge of Augusta; brothers, Donald Ridge of Augusta and Dr. Willard Ridge of Great Falls, Mont.; three grandchildren Steve and Marc Wall of Augusta, Michael Wall of Leon, and step grandchildren, Steve and Jody Bartee of Leon and Herbert Baker, with whom she lived.
A memorial has been established with the Institute of Logopedics in Wichita.

Memorial service Sunday for LeMay
A memorial service will be at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Dunsford Funeral Home for Donald Edward LeMay, 54, 612 Osage.
He died Dec. 23 at the Augusta Medical Complex.
He was cremated.
He was born Feb. 25, 1931 in Middletown, Conn., to Roderick and Frances Frafley LeMay.
He married Barbara Shankle Sept. 4, 1951 in Elizabeth City, N.C. She survives.
He was a retired Wichita city bus driver. He was also retired from the U.S. Navy.
Other survivors include sons, Donald Jr.; a daughter, Debra Priddy, both of Augusta; brother, Robert LeMay of Handen, Conn.; sisters, Beverly Gluhowski of Manchester, Conn., Barbara Gregorio of Hatford, Conn., and four grandchildren.
A memorial has been established with the American Heart Association.

Thursday, December 26, 1985
Homer Kippee dies at 59
Homer Harold Rippee, 59, Wichita, formerly of Augusta, died yesterday at Wesley Medical Center in Wichita.
His funeral will be at 10 a.m. Saturday in the Downing & Lahey Mortuary in Wichita. Burial will be in the Wichita Park Cemetery.
A memorial has been established with the American Lung Association.
He was born May 26, 1926 in Augusta to Huey and Lola Single-ton Rippee.
He married Noella Plummer.
She survives.
He was an oil accountant for Lonita Inc.
Rippee graduated from Augusta High School in 1944. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II and the Korean Conflict.
Other survivors include a son, David Rippee of Dallas, Texas; a daughter, Kimberly Ann Rippee of Oklahoma City, Okla.; mother, Lola Rippee of Augusta; a brother, Dick Rippee of Augusta; sisters, Virginia Winger of Augusta and Dorothy Ferguson of Perth, Australia and a grandchild.

Friday, December 27, 1985
Clarence Schreiber dies in Wichita
Clarence Emil Schreiber, 70, Andover, father of Lawrence Edward Schreiber of Augusta, died Wednesday at the Wesley Medical Center in Wichita.
His funeral will be at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow at the Old Mission Funeral Home Chapel in Wichita.
He was born March 2, 1915 in Munster, Ind., to Emil C. and Molly Stahlbaum Schreiber.
He married Dorothy Mae Gehrke June 19, 1937 in Hammond, Ind. She survives.
Schreiber was a retired U.S. postal service superintendent.
Other survivors include sons, John Thomas Schreiber of Albuquerque, N.M., and Emil Warren Schreiber of Rose Hill; daughter, Virginia Lee Dery of Johannesburg, South Africa; brother, Warren T. Schreiber of Santa Fe, N.M., and seven grandchildren.

Friday, December 27, 1985
‘Winnie’ Johnson service Saturday
Winfred “Winnie” Harold Johnson, 68, 1710 Dearborn, died Wednesday at Bedford, Texas.
Graveside services will be at 2 p.m. tomorrow at the Elmwood Cemetery. Rev. Burl Allison Jr. will officiate.
A memorial has been established with the Augusta Medical Complex.
He was born March 2, 1917 in St. John to Arthur B. and Ida Belle Fager Johnson.
He married Grace Emily Patton Aug. 19, 1939 in Hutchinson. She survives.
Johnson worked for the Mobil refinery. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II and was a member of the First Baptist Church in Stafford.
Other survivors include a son, Ronald of Bedford; sister, Rose Mary Leonard of Bellingham, Wash., and two grandchildren, Ryan and Bret Johnson of Bedford.
The Dunsford Funeral Home of Augusta is in charge of arrangements.

Rites Monday for Vivian Hamann
Vivian Marie Hamann, 78,106 W. Sixth, died yesterday on the Robert Docking (U.S. 54) overpass.
A rosary will be at 7 p.m. Sunday at the Dunsford Funeral Home. Her funeral will be at 9 a.m. Monday at the chapel in the Catholic Center for The Aged in Wichita. Father Ronald Gilmore and Father Thomas Stroot will officiate. Burial will be in the Calvary Cemetery at Evanston, Ill.
She was born July 8, 1907 in Chicago, Ill., to John and Nora Shea Heuvelman.
She married Irving Hamann who preceded her in death in 1974.
Survivors include brothers, Bertram Heuvelman of Richmond, Ill.., and Laurence Heuvelman of Crystal River, Fla., and sisters, Helen Schuhrke of Coon Rapids, Minn., and Mary Jane Schneider of Augusta.

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