Digital Augusta

Augusta, Kansas

1982-04-20
Collection: 1982

Title

1982-04-20

1982-04-21

1982-04-23

Subject

Wolf, Tom

Petty, Bertha (Bertie) B.

Nichols, Glenda

Petty, Bertha "Beulah"

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

1982-04-20

1982-04-21

1982-04-23

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Language

English

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Citation
Augusta Daily Gazette, Augusta, Kansas, USA, “1982-04-20,” Digital Augusta, accessed November 22, 2024, https://augusta.digitalsckls.info/item/39.
Text

The Augusta Daily Gazette
Tuesday, April 20, 1982
Sergeant Tom Wolf
Funeral Wednesday
A funeral service for Butler County sheriff’s sergeant Tom Wolf will be at 1 p.m. tomorrow at St. John’s Catholic Church in El Dorado.
Father Leroy Linnebur will officiate and burial will be at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Moline.
A memorial has been established. Donations may be sent in his name to Walnut Valley State Bank or the Carlson Funeral Home, both of El Dorado.
He was bom July 1, 1953 in Oakland, Calif., to Alvin T. and Dixie Fox Wolf Sr.
He married Rhonda Weyrauch April 6, 1974 at
Eureka. She survives.
He had lived in El Dorado for six years. He had served with the Butler County Sheriff’s Department for 5 1/2 years.
Other survivors include two son, Michael and Matt, both of the home; his mother and stepfather, Dixie and Dean Groene of Enid, Okla.; his father, Alvin T. Wolf Sr. of Oakland, Calif.; his grandmother, Arlimae Fox of Moline; three brothers, Dennis Wolf of Moline, Leroy Groene and David Groene, both of Enid, and a sister, Sheryle Villareal of Enid.
Carlson Funeral Home of El
Dorado is in charge of the arrangements.
Sgt. Wolf died when a semitrailer truck driven by Johnny Lee Huddleston, 30, Austin, Texas, drove up onto the rear of the sergeant’s patrol car and the piggyback vehicles rammed into the side of a house in Towanda. The sheriff’s officer and other law enforcement officers had been attempting to stop Huddleston’s vehicle.
The 28-year-old deputy was the fourth law enforcement officer to die in Butler County in the line of duty since 1978.
On May 24, 1978, Kansas Highway Trooper Conroy O’Brien was shot to death near Matfield Green on the Kansas Turnpike. Butler County Sheriff’s officers apprehended three men who were later convicted of first-degree murder.
Sgt. Steve Hopper, a Butler County Sheriffs officer, died May 19, 1979 in a two-car accident while en route to a disturbance call at Santa Fe Lake.
Almost two years passed before George Rainey of Milwaukee, Wis., shot and killed Trooper F.F. “Bud” Pribbenow of Rose Hill July 11, 1981 near El Dorado on the Kansas Turnpike. Rainey was found guilty of first degree murder.

The Augusta Daily Gazette
Wednesday, April 21, 1982
Mother Dies In Wichita
Bertha (Bertie) B. Petty, Neodesha, mother of Loleta Haskins of Augusta, died today at Wesley Medical Center.
Her service will be at the Altoona Christian Church in Altoona Saturday.
The Lawrence-Fawcett
Funeral Home in Neodesha is in
charge of arrangements.
Other survivors include her husband, Virgil Petty of the home; five other children; 18 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

The Augusta Daily Gazette Friday, April 23, 1982
Glenda Nichols Rites Monday
Glenda Nichols of rural Augusta died early today at the Augusta Medical Complex
Her funeral will be 10 a.m. Monday at the Culbertson Mortuary in Wichita and burial will be in the White Chapel Memorial Gardens there.
She is survived by her husband, Richard, of the home; her mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Tillotson; one brother and three sisters.

Bertha Petty Rites Saturday
Bertha “Beulah” Petty, 60, Neodesha, mother of Loleta Haskins of Augusta, died Wednesday at Wesley Medical Center in Wichita.
Her service will be at 10 a.m. Saturday in the Altoona Christian Church. Rev. Ken Burns will officiate and burial will be in the Altoona Cemetery.
She was born June 8, 1921 in Altoona to Charles and Mary Pheiffer Baughn.
She married Virgil W. Petty July 10, 1939 in Chanute. He survives.
She attended the First Christian Church in Altoona. She was a member of the Sycamore Valley Ladies Aid, TOPS Club, and the Lunch Bunch.
Other survivors include sons, Charles Petty of Erie, Michael Petty of Earlton; daughters, Vergie Marie Kustanborter of Bullhead City, Ariz, Belinda Allen of Rose Hill, Sharon Sandbothe of Garden City; brothers, Tom Baughn and Charles Baughn of Chanute, Chet Baughn of Fredonia, Frank Baughn of Altoona, Richard Baughn of Mulvane; sister, Louise Schultz of Braman, Okla., Bonnie Durham of Durango, Colo.; 18 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Original Format

Newspaper clipping