Digital Augusta

Augusta, Kansas

1991-01-29
Collection: 1991

Title

1991-01-29

1991-01-30

1991-01-27

1991-01-09

1991-02-04

Subject

Bracht, Alma

Gephner, Ernest Dewain

Sibley, Joe

Holcomb, Thelma M.

Lenertz, Edith J.

Description

Obituaries published in the Augusta Daily Gazette

Creator

Augusta Daily Gazette [Kansas]

Source

Augusta Historical Museum, Augusta, Kansas

Publisher

Augusta Public Library, Augusta, Kansas, USA

Date

1991-01-31

Rights

In Copyright In Copyright

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Format

Clippings

Language

English

Type

application/pdf

Identifier

binder4#9



Citation
Augusta Daily Gazette [Kansas], “1991-01-29,” Digital Augusta, accessed November 22, 2024, https://augusta.digitalsckls.info/item/797.
Text

Thursday, January 31, 1991

Alma Bracht

Homemaker Alma Bracht, 95, Augusta, died Tuesday, Jan. 29, in Augusta.
Funeral services will be 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 2, at the Douglass Church of Christ.
Burial will be in the Douglass Cemetery.
Survivors include a son, Todd of Homer, Alaska; two daugthers, Betty McCune of Smileyburg,
Donna Jean Watt of Deming, N.M.; two brothers, Arthur Diller of Augusta, Elmer Diller of Mulvane;
two sisters, Lula Rosenburg of California, Viva Dewart of Augusta; 16 grandchildren;
and numerous great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.
Hilyard-Smith Funeral Home in , Douglass is in charge of arrangements.
A memorial has been established with the Maude Carpenter Children’s Home.

Ernest Dewain Gepner

Ernest Dewain Gepner, 58, Augusta, died Thursday, Jan. 30.
Funeral services will be 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 2, at the Phelps Funeral Home in Miltonvale.
Graveside services will be in a country cemetery.
Survivors include his wife, Patricia; children and their spouses, Robert Ernest and his wife Christine of Leavenworth,
Vickie Larison and her husband Clifton of Towanda, Raymond Marshall of Topeka and
Scott Dewain and his wife Amy of Wichita;
five grandchildren, Joseph, Mark and David Gepner of Leavenworth, Nichole and Heidi Larison of Towanda;
mother, Alice Gepner of Milton-vale; brother, Curtis Gepner and his wife Marianne of Sidney, Australia;
sister, Goldie Dewey of Beloit; foster brother Steven Marsh and his wife Jennifer of Abilene,.
A memorial has been established with the Isis Shrine for Crippled Children’s Hospital, Salina.

Joe Sibley

Retired service station manager Joe Sibley, 74, Bolivar, Mo., died Sunday, Jan. 27.
He is the brother of Augusta resident Russell Sibley.
Funeral services were Wednesday.
Survivors include his wife, Helen; sons, Mike of Half Way, Mo., Gary of Bolivar, Joe R., address unknown;
daughters, Pam Mendez of Arlington, Texas, Brenda Wannow of Edmond, Okla.,
Mary Logue, Mabel L. Fisher, both of Wichita, Janet Bowring, Susan Long, both of Bolivar;
brothers, Leroy of Federal Way, Wash., Edward of Half Way;
sisters, Grace Schreiner, Helen McPherson, both of Wichita, Zella M. Parker of Independence,
Geil Smith of Spring-field, Mo.; nine grandchildren.
Butler Funeral Home, Bolivar, is in charge of arrangements.

Tuesday, February 5, 1991

Thelma Holcomb

Thelma M. Holcomb, 84, Plainfield, N.J., died Wednesday, Jan. 9, at the Meridian Nursing Center in Westfield, N.J.
She was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star in Augusta.
Funeral services were held at the Memorial Funeral Home in Fanwood, N.J.
She was also a member of Monday Afternoon Club, Kings Daughters and the Methodist Church in Davis, Okla.
Holcomb was born in Davis, Okla., and has lived in Plainfield since 1948.
She attended Oklahoma A&M and Wichita University.
Survivors include her husband, Harley J. Holcomb; and a brother, Curtis Alpers of Duncan, Okla.

Edith J. Lenertz

Edith J. Lenertz, 69, Wichita, died Monday, Feb. 4. She is the sister of Augusta resident Augusta L. Gass.
Funeral services will be 2 p.m. Thursday at Culbertson-Smith Mortuary, Wichita.
Other survivors include a son, Roger E. of Wichita, daughter, Margeta J. EuBanks, Wichita;
sister, Julie J. Rapp of Choctaw, Okla.; two grandchildren.

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