Digital Augusta

Augusta, Kansas

1988-03-31
Collection: 1988

Title

1988-03-31

1988-04-01

1988-04-04

1988-04-05

Subject

Myers, Gladys Juanita

Ford, Carl E.

Green, Leon E. "Tye"

Long, Mary G. "Gwen"

Tibbetts, Lenn Willard

Bline, Nolyn

Mathewson, Clara Miller

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

1988-03-31

1988-04-01

1988-04-04

1988-04-05

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Language

English

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Citation
Augusta Daily Gazette, Augusta, Kansas, USA, “1988-03-31,” Digital Augusta, accessed November 24, 2024, https://augusta.digitalsckls.info/item/563.
Text

Thursday, March 31, 1988
Gladys J. Myers died in El Dorado
Augusta homemaker Gladys Juanita Myers, 85, died Wednesday, March 30, at Knutson Manor nursing home in El Dorado.
A graveside service will be conducted at 11 a.m. Saturday, April 2, in Elmwood Cemetery with Rev. George Goudie of First Southern Baptist Church officiating.
She was born June 28, 1902, to Raymond Keihl and Lela Hodson, in Wichita.
On May 25, 1921, she married Arthur Preston Myers in Winfield. He preceded her in death.
She is survived by two daughters, Phyllis Wallace, Augusta and Ruth Green, Pittsburg; a brother, Robert Keihl, San Fransisco; two sisters, Gertrude Nazar, Redwood, Calif., and Ella Kness, Utah; six grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren.
The Dunsford Funeral Home of Augusta has charge of the arrangements.

Saturday funeral for Carl E. Ford
Retired Boeing Military Airplane Co. welder Carl E. Ford, 86, Sedan, father of Marlene Brazell of Augusta, died Tuesday, March 29.
His funeral service will be 2 o’clock Saturday afternoon, April 2, at the Timmons Funeral Home in Fredonia.
Ford also leaves three other daughters, Pauline Cheuvront of Denver, Colo., LaDonna Smith of Sedan, Frances Ledbetter of Stillwater, Okla.; three sisters, Effie Owens and Verna Post, both of Marshall, Mo., and Bertha Palmer of Chico, Calif.; 14 grandchildren and 24 great-grandchildren.
Memorials have been established with the Christian churches at Sedan and Fredonia.

Friday, April 1, 1988
Leon E. Green died Wednesday
Leon E. “Tye” Green, 79, 448 Broadway, died Wednesday, March 30, at Augusta Medical Complex. He was a retired machinist tool and die maker for Boeing Military Airplane Co.
His funeral service will be 11 a.m. Monday at the Dunsford Funeral Home chapel and burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery. Rev. Burl Allison Jr. will officiate.
Green was born Dec. 30, 1908 in Netawaka to William and Lillian Dearing Green.
On March 14, 1935, he and the former Goldie A. Conway were married in Lawrence. She preceded in hin death in 1984.
Green leaves a son, Gary of Wichita; two daughters, Jody Vogt of Douglass and Janice Monyhan of Collinsville, Okla.; three brothers, David and Don, both of Topeka, and Jim of Long Beach, Calif.; a sister, Ruth Stapleton of Red Bluff, Calif.; 12 grandchildren, and 22 great-grandchildren.

Monday, April 4, 1988
Mary G. Long dies at hospital
Retired Beech Aircraft Corp. shipping supervisor Mary G. “Gwen” Long, 79, Douglass, died Saturday, April 2, at the Susan B. Allen Memorial Hospital in El Dorado.
Her funeral service will be 2 o’clock tomorrow afternoon (April 5) in the Hilyard-Smith Funeral Home chapel at Douglass and burial will be in the Douglass Cemetery.
She was born Sept. 11, 1908 in Seward to Thomas and Pearl Goatley.
On April 8, 1925, she and Robert L. Long were united in marriage at El Dorado. He preceded her in death.
Mrs. Long had been a resident of Douglass since 1923 after relocating there from El Reno, Okla.
She leaves a son, Robert J. “Bob” Long of El Dorado; a sister, Neona Murphy of Douglass; two grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.
Memorial gifts to the Douglass Public Library have been suggested.

Monday, April 4, 1988
Lenn W. Tibbetts dies in Lenexa
Retired music teacher Lenn Willard Tibbetts, 91, a former Augusta resident, died Saturday, April 2, in Lenexa.
His funeral service will be 2 o’clock tomorrow afternoon (April 5) at the Dunsford Funeral Home chapel with Rev. Burl Allison Jr. officiating. Burial will be in the Elmwood Cemetery.
He was born April 11, 1896 in Ottawa as a son of Willard Lorenzo and Lena Snider Tibbetts.
Tibbetts and the former Cora L. Benifiel were married April 29, 1917 in Nowata, Okla. She preceded him in death.
Survivors include a daughter, Virginia Hutton of Lenexa; a brother, Jess Tibbetts of Wichita; two sisters, Mary Loop of Salinas, Calif., and Gertrude Brown of Medford, Ore.; two grandchildren (Jeanne Ralston and Pennie VonAchen) and four great-grandchildren (Bill and Tom Ral-ston, Megan and Kate VonAchen).
Tibbetts was a member of the First Christian Church.
Memorials, to the Lenn Tibbetts music scholarship fund have been suggested.

Bline died Saturday
Nolyn Bline, husband of former Augustan Alberta Bailey, died Saturday, April 2, at their home in Bella Vista, Ark.
Cremation service will be held at the Bella Vista Community Church, Tuesday, April 5, at 10:30 a.m.

Tuesday, April 5, 1986
Sister died in Wichita
Clara Miller Mathewson, 89, of Wichita, sister of Augusta resident Ruth Toothman, died Saturday evening, April 2, in Wichita.
Also surviving are a niece and nephew, Betty Conner and James Toothman, both of Augusta. There was no service. Burial was in the Green Valley Cemetery near Furley.

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