Digital Augusta

Augusta, Kansas

1991-11-14
Collection: 1991

Title

1991-11-14

1991-11-25

1991-11-26

Subject

Collins, Mary Louise

Porter, Maxine

Collins, Mary Louise

Eckel, John E.

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

1991-11-26

Rights

In Copyright In Copyright

Published with permission of copyright holder. Further reproduction prohibited.

Format

Clippings

Language

English

Type

application/pdf

Identifier

Binder4#80



Citation
Augusta Daily Gazette [Kansas], “1991-11-14,” Digital Augusta, accessed November 21, 2024, https://augusta.digitalsckls.info/item/871.
Text

Tuesday, November 26, 1991

Mary L. Collins

Mary Louise Collins, 88, Augusta, died Monday, Nov. 25, at the HCA Wesley Medical Center in Wichita.
Her funeral service will be at 2:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 30, at the Dunsford Funeral Home chapel here.
Rev. Max Munson will officiate and burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery.
She was born July 23, 1903 at Grenola as a daughter of Mary Lou Allen Rule and Smiley Bonham Haigler.
On April 23, 1921, she and John Millard Collins were married in a ceremony at Howard. He survives.
Mrs. Collins was a retired seamstress and tailor.
Other survivors include a son, Jeffrey of Hutchinson, a daughter, Christina Smith of Augusta and
a brother, Martin Haigler o Hutchinson. She was preceded in death by one son, Jay who died in September of this year).

Wednesdav. November 27, 1991

Maxine Porter

Maxine Porter of Peabody, mother of Augusta city manager Warren Porter, died last night at the hospital in Newton.
Funeral arrangements were pending this morning at the Baker Funeral Home in Peabody.

Mary L. Collins

Mary Louise Collins, 88, Augusta, died Monday, Nov. 25, at the HCA Wesley Medical Center in Wichita.
Her funeral service will be at 2:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 30, at the Dunsford Funeral Home chapel here.
Rev. Max Munson will officiate and burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery.
She was born July 23, 1903 at Grenola as a daughter of Mary Lou Allen Rule and Smiley Bonham Haigler.
On April 23, 1921, she and John Millard Collins were married in a ceremony at Howard. He survives.
Mrs. Collins was a retired seamstress and tailor.
Other Survivors include a son, Jeffrey of Hutchinson, a daughter, Christina Smith of Augusta,
a brother, Martin Haigler of Hutchinson, four grandchildren and one great-grantchild.
She was preceded in death by one son, Jay who died in September of this year.

John Eckel

John E. Eckel, 85, died Nov. 14 in Gramacy Hill Care Center in Lincoln, Neb. He was a Douglass High School graduate.
Funeral services were Monday at the First United Methodist Church in Arkansas City.
Burial was in Douglass Cemetery.
Eckel was born in Rick Creek Township, Cowley County, to Charles B. and Clara E. (Gephart) Eckel.
He attended Kansas University and graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 1929
with a degree in petroleum engineering.
In June of 1935, he married Dorothy Guyot in Douglass, and they resided in Houston, Texas.
After retiring, the Eckels moved to Arkansas City. Eckel’s wife preceded him in death on Aug. 16.
Survivors include a son, John E. Jr. of Galveston, Texas; a daughter, Mary Endecott Nefsky of Lincoln, Neb.;
and seven grandchildren.

Original Format

Newspaper clipping