Digital Augusta

Augusta, Kansas

1991-08-26
Collection: 1991

Title

1991-08-26

1991-08-25

1991-08-25

1991-08-13

Subject

Crain, Lottie Pearl

Hart, Verda I.

Gallardo, Helen T.

Munroe, Alfred A. Jr.

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

1991-08-27

Rights

In Copyright In Copyright

Published with permission of copyright holder. Further reproduction prohibited.

Format

Clippings

Language

English

Type

application/pdf

Identifier

Binder4#60



Citation
Augusta Daily Gazette [Kansas], “1991-08-26,” Digital Augusta, accessed November 22, 2024, https://augusta.digitalsckls.info/item/850.
Text

Tuesday, August 27, 1991

Lottie Crain

Homemaker Lottie Pearl (Wolf) Crain, 89, Arkansas City, died Monday, Aug. 26.
She is the sister of Leo Wolf of Douglass.
Funeral services are 10:30 a.m. Thursday at Rindt-Erdman Funeral Home, Arkansas City.
Survivors include a son, Elmo of Arkansas City; five grandchildren; five great-grandchildren.
A memorial has been established with Central Christian Church Library.

Verda Hart

Homemaker Verda I. Hart, 86, Latham, died Sunday, Aug. 25. She is the mother of Ivan Hart of Augusta.
Funeral services are 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Carlson Funeral Home, El Dorado, and 1 p.m. at Latham Cemetery.
Other survivors include her husband, John; son, Phillip of El Dorado; daughter, Marian Hunter of Howard;
brothers, Percy Finley of Winfield, Vemie Finley of Latham;
13 grandchildren; 27 great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren.
Memorials have been established with the American Cancer Society and the American Heart Association.

Helen Gallardo

Homemaker Helen T. Gallardo, 52, Augusta, died Sunday, Aug. 25, at HCA Wesley Medical Center, Wichita.
Rosary will be 7 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 28, at Dunsford Funeral Home, Augusta.
Funeral services will are 11 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 29, at St. James Catholic Church in Augusta,
with Father James Billinger officiating.
Burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery, Augusta.
Other survivors include sons, Tony of Lawrence, Michael of Augusta;
brother, Manuel Cabrales Jr. of El Dorado; a sister, Lucy Carrillo of Augusta;
two grandchildren, Kelsi Alise and Michaela Alane, both of Augusta.
A memorial has been established with the St. James Church Building Fund, P.O. Box 250, Augusta, Kan. 67010.

Wednesday, August 28, 1991

Military funeral

A full military funeral service with honors was held Aug. 20 for Alfred A. Munroe Jr., 68, Alexandria, Va.,
brother of Robert Munroe of Augusta, at the Arlington National Cemetery outside of Washington, D.C.
Munroe died at his home on Aug. 13.
He was born Sept. 12, 1922 in Wichita as a son of Alfred Alexander Munroe and Nellie Alice England Munroe.
In 1940, he graduated from Douglass High School and attended Kansas State University
at Manhattan for one year before receiving his bachelor’s degree from Wichita University.
Later, he would graduate with honors from the University of Syracuse and a degree in public administration.
Munroe earned a law degree from George Washington University.
He saw service and was wounded in the Korean War. In addition to the Purple Heart, he received a Bronze Star.
Following graduation from George Washington University,
he worked for the U.S. Department of the Army in Paris, France, and began a lengthy civil service career.
He also worked at Worms, Germany, as comptroller for the European Military Command.
Attending the service at Arlington were brother Robert from Augusta,
nephew Allen Munroe of Wichita, and sister Ruth Shenfeld of Glendale, Calif.

Original Format

Newspaper clipping