Digital Augusta

Augusta, Kansas

1987-11-23
Collection: 1987

Title

1987-11-23

Subject

Clinger, Bertha D.

Roby, Martha Josephine

Tate, Everett Clyde

Thompson, Waldo W.

Finlay, Roy

Boyle, Hugh H.

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

1987-11-23

Format

Clippings

Language

English

Type

application/pdf



Citation
Augusta Daily Gazette, Augusta, Kansas, USA, “1987-11-23,” Digital Augusta, accessed May 19, 2024, https://augusta.digitalsckls.info/item/524.
Text

Monday, November 23, 1987
Bertha Clinger died Friday
Bertha D. Clinger, 97, of Rose Hill, homemaker, died Friday, Nov. 20.
Her funeral was 2 p.m. today at Rose Hill United Methodist Church. Burial was in Rose Hill Cemetery and Rev. Paul Johnson officiated. Hilyard-Smith Funeral Home in Douglass had the arrangements.
Clinger was born Aug. 31, 1890 to John Morton and Clarinda Curtis Chance in Rose Hill.
On Feb. 3, 1915, she and Ernest William Clinger were married in Wichita. He preceded her in death in 1962.
Her survivors include: sons, Harold “Tom” of Rose Hill, Garold “Barney” of Aurora, Colo.; daughter, Mildred Cox of Rose Hill; six grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; several great-great-grandchildren.
A memorial has been established with Rose Hill United Methodist Church.

Martha Roby died Saturday
Martha Josephine Roby, 82, of El Dorado, mother of June Can-field of rural Leon, and sister of Mrs. Fred Thompson of Augusta, died Saturday, Nov. 21 in Susan B. Allen Memorial Hospital.
Her graveside service will be 11 a.m. at Fairlawn Cemetery in Hutchinson. Rev. Burl Allison will officiate. Dunsford Funeral Home has the arrangments.
Roby was born Nov. 11, 1905 to Jesse Franklin and Jessie Grace Perkins in Kansas.
She was a housekeeper and a member of the Church of the Nazarene.
In addition to her daughter in Leon and her sister here, survivors include: brother, Tim Per-
kins of Vancouver, Wash.; half-brother, James H. Applegate of Oldfield, Mo.; sisters, Edith Thompson of Lost Springs, Bessie Shatell of Wichita; three grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; one great-great-grandchild.

Everett C. Tate died yesterday
Everett Clyde Tate, 78, of Augusta, retired Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. installation foreman, died yesterday.
His funeral will be 3 p.m. tomorrow at Mission Chapel Mausoleum in Wichita. Rev. Burl Allison will officiate. Quiring-Old Mission Mortuary has the arrangments.
Tate was born Aug. 18, 1909 to Daniel Hesther Grugin Tate in Macon, Mo.
His survivors include: wife, Frances N.; daughter, Shirley Jean Scott of Scottsdale, Ariz.; stepson, James T. Westervelt of Longmont, Colo.; stepdaughters, Billye Jane Johnson of Portland, Ore., Karen Turner of Bakersfield, Calif., Clarene Bennett of Augusta; brothers, Jeff of Dear-more, Mo., Edgar of Rayville, Mo., Ralph, Claude, Wayne, all of Liberty, Mo.; sister, Carrie Williams of Los Angeles; 10 grandchildren; five great-grandchildren.

Augustan’s brother died in Lyons
Waldo W. Thompson, 74, of Orange, Calif., formerly of Lyons, retired Skelly Pipeline Co. inspector, brother of Juanita Thornton of Augusta, died Friday, Nov. 20.
His graveside service will be 10 a.m. Wednesday at Lyons Municipal Cemetery. Sillin Funeral Home has the arrangements.
Thompson was born in November 1913 to Jay Dexter and Maude James Walker Thompson in Chadwick, Mo.
In addition to his sister here, survivors include: son, Tony of Santa Ana, Calif.; daughter, Marsha Peterson of Thousand Oaks, Calif.; brother, J.O. of Palacios, Texas; four grandchildren; three great-grandchildren.

Services pending for Roy Finlay
Services are pending for Roy Finlay, 79, of Carbondale, brother of Gilbert of Augusta, who died yesterday at a nursing home in Overbrook.
In addition to his brother here, survivors include: sons, Gerald of Kansas City, Mo., Lee of Dallas; sisters, Florence Badger of Carbondale, Violet Woodward of Shawnee Mission, Sara Allen of Carlsbad, Calif.

Hugh H. Boyle funeral today
Hugh H. Boyle, 54, of Wichita, pathologist, died Thursday, Nov. 19, in a plane crash near the Augusta Municipal Airport.
His funeral was 2 p.m. today at Reformation Lutheran Church.
Boyle was born Feb. 16, 1933 to Hugh Harold and Vera May Downing Boyle in Erie, Penn.
His survivors include: wife, Kathryn M.; sons, Robert Bruce, Patarick Douglas, both of Wichita, Kevin Dittemore of Emporia, Carl Dittemore of Athens, I11.; daughter, Cathleen Susan of Lawrence; mother, Vera May Gillespie of Wellsville, N.Y.; sisters, Susn Sanders of Wellsville, Sally De Alassandro of Pittsburgh, two grandchildren..
A memorial has been established with the Friends University Scholarship Fund.

Original Format

Newspaper clipping