Digital Augusta

Augusta, Kansas

1987-02-26
Collection: 1987

Title

1987-02-26

1987-02-27

1987-03-02

Subject

Kennedy, Edgar

Williams, Ida Mae

Clements, Helen

McMillian, Candace

Danler, Joseph E.

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

1987-02-26

1987-02-27

1987-03-02

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Format

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Language

English

Type

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Citation
Augusta Daily Gazette, Augusta, Kansas, USA, “1987-02-26,” Digital Augusta, accessed November 24, 2024, https://augusta.digitalsckls.info/item/454.
Text

Thursday, February 26, 1987
Edgar Kennedy rites are tomorrow
Edgar Kennedy, 61, Wichita, father of Eddy J. Kennedy of Augusta, died Wednesday at St. Joseph Regional Medical Center in Wichita.
His funeral will be at 2 p.m. tomorrow at Kirby-Morris Funeral Home in El Dorado. Rev. Charles Harrison will officiate and burial will be in Walnut Valley Memorial Park.
A memorial has been established with the American Diabetes Association.
He was born June 6, 1925 in Wichita to Jesse Earl and Inez Thompson Kennedy.
He married JoAnn Counter Nov. 10, 1946 in Topeka. She survives.
Mr. Kennedy was a pipeline construction superintendent.
Other survivors include sons, Terry of Rose Hill, Todd of Wichita; daughter, Rita Arnold of Fort Bolivar, Texas; mother, Inez Kennedy of El Dorado; brothers, Earl of Derby and Harry of El Dorado, and eight grandchildren.


Friday, February 27, 1987
Ida Mae Williams service tomorrow
Ida Mae Williams, 87, Wichita, mother of Wanda Lee M. Sheets of Douglass, died Wednesday at St. Joseph Medical Center in Wichita.
Her funeral will be at 1 p.m. tomorrow at the Downing & Lahey Mortuary in Wichita. Rev. Bert McCormick will officiate.
She was born on Oct. 8, 1899 to John and Rachael Watson Ratliff.
Other survivors include sons, William Junior of Shawnee, William Eugene of Pendelton, Ore., Charles Jacob of Rock; daughters, Trella Rosalie Meads of Hermiston, Ore., and Betty M. Wells of Wichita; sister, Trella Moore of Pittsburg; 27 grandlchildren; 41 great-grandchildren, and seven great-great-grandchildren.
Memorials have been established with the American Diabetes Association and the American Lung Association.
Monday, March 2, 1987
Helen Clements died at 83 Friday
Helen Clements, 82, Harper, mother of LaWanda Bush of Douglass, died Friday at her home.
Her funeral was at 2:30 p.m. today at the Elliott Funeral Home in Harper. Rev. Gene Eshleman officiated and burial was in the Fairview Cemetery in Danville.
A memorial has been established with the Harper United Methodist Church.
She was born July 24, 1904 in Zenda to George and Antionette Wohlfred
She married Thomas J. Clements. He preceded her in death in 1962.
Other survivors include a son, Dick of Wichita; daughter, June Bush of Wichita; four grandchildren, and two great-grand children.

Candace McMillian rites were today
Candace Lynn McMillian, 30, Sylvia, sister of Cheryl Feldman of Douglass, died Wednesday at a Hutchinson hospital.
Her funeral was at 10:30 a.m. today at the Peacock-Milton Funeral Home in Stafford. Rev. Steve Reusch officiated and burial was in the Sylvia cemetery.
She was born Oct. 29, 1956 in Oklahoma City, Okla., to John Hubert and Marilyn Ruth Olson Hare Jr.
She married Jerry Dean McMillian Oct. 21, 1978 in Maize. He survives.
Other survivors include a son, Todd; a daughter, Monica, both of the home; father, John Hare Jr. of Occidental, Calif.; mother and stepfather, Marilyn and Dwight Clements of Derby; brothers, Brian Hare of Meriden, Wayne Hare of Wichita; sisters, Laurie Odom of Hinesville, Ga., Melanie Hare of Wichita, and grandmother, Madeline Olson of Northbridge, Mass.

Joseph E. Danler dies in accident
Joseph E. Danler, 44, Seattle, Wash., formerly of Augusta, died Saturday while sailing from Anacortes, 60 miles north of Seattle, Wash., to Shilshole Bay in Seattle.
A memorial service is scheduled for 10 a.m. Thursday in Seattle.
Danler was sailing with three friends when the accident occurred. A family spokesman, Frank Couch of Wichita, said Danler slipped and fell from the stern of the boat into the frigid waters of Pudget Sound near Port Townsend. His companions pulled him from the water. He was flown in a Coast Guard helicopter to a nearby hospital where he died.
Danler attended St. Patrick School in Kingman and St. James Catholic School in Augusta. He graduated in 1960 from Kapaun High School. He received a bachelor’s degree in business administration. Since serving in Vietnam as an army officer, he has lived in Seattle.
Survivors include his wife, Barbara of Seattle; a son, Patrick, Sparks, Nev.; parents, I.A. and Florence Danler of Waterloo; brothers, John of Augusta, Leo of Douglass and Larry of Wellington, and sisters, Cecilia Andrus of Bellingham, Wash., Mary Turner of St. Joseph, Mo., and Theresa Couch of Wichita.

Original Format

Newspaper clipping