Digital Augusta

Augusta, Kansas

1988-04-11
Collection: 1988

Title

1988-04-11

Subject

Hill, Albert M.

Carroll, Dolores P. (Grimes)

Wells, Ruth Marion

Head, Joyce Earline

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

1988-04-11

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Format

Clippings

Language

English

Type

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Citation
Augusta Daily Gazette, Augusta, Kansas, USA, “1988-04-11,” Digital Augusta, accessed November 24, 2024, https://augusta.digitalsckls.info/item/565.
Text

MONDAY, APRIL 11, 1988
Funeral Tuesday for Albert Hill
Retired Mobil Oil refinery worker Albert M. Hill, 83, 1802 Dearborn Street, died early Sunday morning, April 10, at St. Francis Regional Medical Center in Wichita.
His funeral service will be 11 o’clock tomorrow morning, April 12, at the Dunsford Funeral Home chapel of Augusta with burial in Sunset Lawns Cemetery at El Dorado. Rev. Burl Allison Jr. will officiate.
He was born July 7, 1904 in Walnut as a son of Fred A. and Margaret Frances (Salrin) Hill.
On Nov. 7, 1931, he was united in marriage to Irene Dills in a ceremony at Kansas City, Mo. She survives.
Hill had lived in Augusta for the past 56 years after moving here from El Dorado.
He worked nearly 40 years for Mobil Oil refinery and retired from there in 1968. Hill worked as a unit operator nearly all of his refinery career.
He loved baseball and coached and managed many area youth baseball teams during his lifetime. Hill was an avid fan of University of Kansas athletics.
He was a member of the Elks Lodge for nearly 50 years and a former member of the Moose Lodge.
In additon to his wife, Hill leaves a son, Roger Hill of Lawrence; a daughter, Sarah Nusbaum of Wichita; a brother, Ernest Hill of Halstead; a sister,
Rachel VanLeeuwen of St. Paul; five granddaughters -- Lisa Eick, Lauren Lyons, Kari Millison, Kristi Hill and Kathy Hill.
He was preceded in death by his parents, one son, Richard E. “Dickie” Hill, and six brothers.
A memorial has been established with Augusta Medical Complex Hospital Auxiliary. Contributions may be sent to the Dunsford Funeral Home,

Former Augustan died in California
Dolores P. (Grimes) Carroll, 83, of Rancho Bernado, Calif., a former Augustan, died Tuesday, April 5. Services were Saturday at DeVorss Flanagan-Hunt Mortuary in Wichita.
She is survived by a niece, Donna Vausbinder, Topeka.
She lived in Augusta many years and graduated from Augsuta High Shcool in 1923. She worked for Southwest Bell Telephone Company as an operator in Wichita.

Ruth Wells, 68 died Saturday
Ruth Marion Wells, 68, died Saturday at Augusta Medical Complex. She was a retired Beech Aircraft worker.
A memorial cremation service will be held Tuesday, April 12, at 1 p.m. at Dunsford Chapel with Rev. Galen Burow of Christ Lutheran Church officiating.
She is survied by a son, Larry Wells, of Augusta; two brothers, Lawrene Polzin, Forsythe, Mont, and Vernon Polzin, Columbia Falls, Mont.; a sister, Alice Cartwright, Laurel, Mont., and two grandchildren.
She was born July 15, 1919 in Minnesota to John Polzin and Clara Schmidt. She was a member of Christ Lutheran Church.
Memorials have been established to the Center for Basic Cancer Research at Kansas State University in Manhattan.

Joyce E. Head service today
A funeral service for homemaker Joyce Earline Head, 57, Wichita, mother of Shirley Clayton of Augusta was held this afternoon at the Resthaven Mortuary in Wichita and burial was in the Resthaven Gardens of Memory. Captain Roger Adams of the Salvation Army Citadel Corps officiated.
She died Thursday, April 7, at St. Francis Regional Medical Center in Wichita.
She was born Oct. 8, 1930 in Kansas to Burden and Ethel Stanley Crawford.
On Sept. 21, 1947, she and John B. Head Sr. were united in marriage at Wichita. He survives.
She was a member of the Salvation Army Home League.
In addition to her daughter and husband, she leaves sons John B. Jr., Bill M. and Kenneth, both of Wichita; a sister, Carolyn McLaughlin of Wichita, and nine grandchildren.

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