Digital Augusta

Augusta, Kansas

1982-12-17
Collection: 1982

Title

1982-12-17

1982-12-20

Subject

Cromer, Patricia Ann

Slater, Anna Frances

Clark, Iretha "Rita" M.

Sparks, Nellie

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

1982-12-17

1982-12-20

Format

Clippings

Language

English

Type

application/pdf



Citation
Augusta Daily Gazette, Augusta, Kansas, USA, “1982-12-17,” Digital Augusta, accessed April 28, 2024, https://augusta.digitalsckls.info/item/98.
Text

The Augusta Daily Gazette
Friday, December 17, 1982
Sister Dies In Kingman
Patricia Ann Cromer, 45, Kingman, sister of Larry Robb of Augusta, died Wednesday at the Kingman Community Hospital.
Her service will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Kingman Presbyterian Church. Rev. James Ayres will officiate and burial will be in Walnut Hill Cemetery at Kingman.
A memorial has been established with the Kingman Presbyterian Church.
She was born Jan. 1, 1937 in Ponca City, Okla., to Neal M. and Hazel Malone Robb.
She married Troy L. Cromer Nov. 6, 1955 in Kingman. He survives.
She was a homemaker. She was a charter member of the Rainbow Girls in Kingman, the UPW, Eastern Star, Safeway Credit Union and the Presbyterian Church.
Other survivors include a son, Jon T. Cromer of Kingman; daughters, Debra L. Cromer of Oklahoma City, Okla., and Lisa A. Cromer of Wichita; mother, Hazel Robb of Kingman; a sister, Marilyn Hart of Emporia and a grandchild.

Monday, December 20, 1982
Anna Slater
Died Thursday
Anna Frances Slater, 73, 639 Osage, died Thursday at the Augusta Medical Complex.
Graveside services were at 10:30 a.m. today at the Fredonia (Kan.) cemetery. Pastor Dean McCormick of the First Assembly of God Church in Wichita officiated.
She was born Feb. 16, 1909 in Humboldt to Herman and Clara Pettit Wood.
She married Elden Slater Oct. 17, 1936 in Independence. He survives.
The Dunsford Funeral Home of Augusta was in charge of arrangements.

Sister Dies In Wichita
Iretha “Rita” M. Clark, 59, Wichita, sister of Alfred Ford of Augusta, died Saturday at St. Francis Regional Medical Center in Wichita.
Her service will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Broadway Mortuary in Wichita. Rev. Lewis D. Fowler will officiate and burial will be in the Wichita Park Cemetery.
She was born Oct. 11, 1923 in Barber County to McCage and Myrtle Steadman Ford
She was a former Safeway Co. employee.
She was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary.
Other survivors include a son, Darrell McKnight of the home; three other brothers, Walter Ford of Melbourne, Fla., Charles Ford of Houston, Texas, McCage Ford of Newport News, Va.; a sister, Lois South of Wichita; a half-sister, Evelyn Towns of Liberal, and a granddaughter.

Nellie Sparks Dies At 86
Nellie Sparks, 86, Wichita, mother of Joe Sparks of Augusta, died Saturday at the Kansas Masonic Home in Wichita.
Her service will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Lamb Mortuary in Whitewater. Rev. Dale
Sneeringer will officiate and burial will be in the Towanda Cemetery.
A memorial has been established with the Kansas Masonic Home.
She was born Nov. 2, 1896 in Meade to Marshall and Eva Mae Morris Camp.
She married Nov. 18, 1914 in El Dorado to Benjamin Harris Sparks. He preceded her in death.
She was a member of the Evangelical United Brethern Church at Newton and the Order of the Eastern Star.
Survivors also include another son,. Eldon Sparks of Portland, Ore.; a daughter, Margery Wohlgemuth of Benton; brother, Jimmy Camp of Wichita; sisters, Lucy Baker of Wichita and Eva Camp of El Dorado.

Original Format

Newspaper clipping