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Vernice Rausch
NORTH KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Vernice Elaine Delp Rausch, 72, of North Kansas City, formerly of Winfield, died Feb. 29, 2000, at North Kansas City Hospital.
Memorial services will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Platte Woods United Methodist Church, 7310 NW Prairie View Road.
Memorial contributions may be made to the American Lung Association, 4300 SW Drury Lane, Topeka, KS 66604-2419.
Rausch was born July 5, 1927, in Denver. She attended Southwestern College in 1946-47 and taught music in a grade school west of Winfield.
She attended Platte Woods United Methodist Church and All Tribes Indian United Methodist Church. She was director of the Mommetts, a barber shop singing group.
Survivors include her husband, Dean Rausch; seven sons, Terry, Greg, Brad, Kent, Web, Wes and Chris Rausch; 16 grandchildren, four great-grandchildren and many family members in Winfield, including Mary Brewer, and on the West Coast.
Christian Griffin
ARKANSAS CITY - Christian Grant Griffin, son of Valarie Jennings and Reuben Griffin of Arkansas City, was stillborn March 2, 2000, at South Central Kansas Regional Medical Center.
Services were at 1 p.m. March 8 in Riverview Cemetery. The Rev. James Watson officiated. Rindt-Erdman Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
In addition to his parents, he is survived by a sister, Shinyah Lynn Griffin, Arkansas City; his grandparents, Mary and Harold Gross, Winfield, Rodney Jennings, Arkansas City, and Star and Grant Griffin, Okmulgee, Okla.; and a great-grandmother, Velva Jennings, Arkansas City.
John Moore
Services for John Wesley Moore were held at 2 p.m. Feb. 29, 2000, in Colonial Chapel of Miles Funeral Service. The Rev. Jeff Fletcher officiated. American Legion Post 10 and Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3544 provided military ceremonies in Highland Cemetery.
Music included recordings of Ray Charles and Willie Nelson singing "Seven Spanish Angels," Vince Gill singing "Go Rest High on That Mountain," Steve Wariner singing "Holes in the Floor of Heaven," Vince Gill and Barbra Streisand singing "If You Ever Leave Me" and Celine Dion singing "Because You Love Me."
Honorary casket bearers were Gene Bair, Becky Camp, Jarred Chalmers, Dean Crow, Don Drennan, Dennis Gilliland, Lawrence Hostetter, Teresa Jordan, Mark Kent, John McIver, Steve McNutt, Terry Mount, Travis Schumate, Cliff Sneed, Rob Snively and Roger Tredway.
Casket bearers were David and Kim Estabrook, Zackary Hill, Clint Moore, Chad, Tim and Tyler Spencer and Dylan Thayer.
Memorials have been established with the American Syringomyelia Alliance Project and Victory in the Valley in Wichita.
William Myers
BETHANY, Okla. - William Logan Myers, 79, of Bethany, died March 6, 2000, at Deaconess Hospital in Oklahoma City.
Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at Miles Funeral Service. Military burial rites will be conducted in Dexter Cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home until 9 tonight. Family will be present from 7 to 9 to greet visitors.
A memorial has been established with the World War II Veterans Memorial. Contributions may be made through the funeral home.
Myers was born June 29, 1920, at Cedar Vale, to Willie and Mollie May (Bennett) Myers. He graduated from Dexter High School in 1938.
A veteran of World War II, he served in the U.S. Army for four years with the 32nd Infantry Division, spending three of those years in foxholes in New Guinea. He received numerous medals, including the Distinguished Unit Badge, the Good Conduct Medal and the Philippine Liberation Ribbon with one Bronze Star. Following his discharge in August 1945, he returned to Cowley County.
On Dec. 3, 1946, he married Helen Miller in Winfield. They lived most of their married lives in Bethany where he was employed by Westinghouse Electric Supply Co. for 31 1/2 years.
Survivors include his wife, Helen Myers, Bethany; a brother, Belvin Myers, Arkansas City; two sisters, Bonnie Fisher, Bull Shoals, Ark., and Betty Johnson, Arkansas City; and two stepbrothers, Leo Wood, Yountsville, Calif., and Harold Wood, Arkansas City.
Jana Seidel
Jana Lou Seidel, 39, of 813 E. 33rd, Winfield, died March 6, 2000, at William Newton Memorial Hospital.
Memorial services will be held at 3 p.m. Thursday at Miles Funeral Service. Private committal ceremonies will be held following cremation.
Seidel was born Jan. 31, 1961, in Pratt, to Donna (Barnes) and Leo Seidel. In 1972 she moved to Winfield where she resided at Winfield State Hospital and Training Center. She had resided at Creative Community Living since Jan. 13, 1998.
Survivors include her parents, Leo and Donna Seidel, Lowell, Ark.; a sister, Nila Seidel, Rose Hill; and a brother, Vince Seidel, Springdale, Ark.
Olive Kappler
DEXTER - Olive Elaine Kappler, 81, of Dexter, died March 8, 2000, at William Newton Memorial Hospital.
Services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday in Maple City Cemetery.
Friends may call at Swisher-Taylor & Morris Funeral Home from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday.
The John and Olive Kappler Memorial Scholarship has been established for Cedar Vale and Dexter students at Cowley County Community College.
Kappler was born May 13, 1918, in Hooser, to Fern (Oller) and John Batdorf. She attended Prairie Eagle grade school and was a 1937 graduate of Cedar Vale High School. She also completed her teaching degree at Pittsburg State Teachers College.
She began her 39-year teaching career in a one-room school in Cowley County. She taught in Arkansas City schools and 29 years at Gardner Elementary School in Wichita.
On Nov. 29, 1948, she married John Kappler in Arkansas City. They lived first in Arkansas City, then in Wichita before retiring and moving to Dexter in 1979. Her husband died Sept. 18, 1981.
Kappler was a former member of the Kansas branch of the National Education Association and a member of the Wichita Retired Teachers Association and the Kansas Retired Teachers Association.
Survivors include a stepdaughter, Lois Jean Feltenberger, Ferridy, La.; a stepdaughter-in-law, Nita Steffey, Snelville, Ga.; eight stepgrandchildren and many stepgreat-grandchildren.
Leo Thiessen
GREENVILLE, Ohio - Leo H. Thiessen, 79, of Greenville, formerly of Independence, died March 7, 2000, in Greenville.
Services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at Zimmerman Funeral Home in Howard. The Rev. Robin Haines will officiate. Burial will be in Moline Cemetery.
Visitation with the family at the funeral home will be from 10 a.m. Saturday until service time.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Greenville Evangelical United Methodist Church, Darke County, Ohio Cancer Association or Dr. Robert Finley III of the Franciscan Foundation Vaccine Program. Contributions may be left at the funeral home.
Thiessen was born Aug. 4, 1920, at Lahoma, Okla., to Henry and Lydia (Jantz) Thiessen.
On Sept. 4. l 947, he married Mary Bruner of Moline and lived in Independence for several years before moving to Greenville. He was employed by Fram Corp. in Greenville until his retirement.
He was a member of the Evangelical United Methodist Church in Greenville.
Survivors include his wife, Mary Thiessen, Greenville; his daughters, Linda Seelbrede, Paw Paw, Mich., Patty Haugsness, Hutchinson, and Kim Thiessen, Lawrence; his brothers, Alfred Thiessen, Fredonia, Dan Thiessen and Eddie Thiessen, both of Independence, and Waldo Thiessen, Phoenix; a sister, Elfrieda Howard, Independence; one grandchild and two stepgrandchildren.
Frances Popham
ROUND ROCK, Texas - Frances T. Popham, 87, of Round Rock, formerly of Winfield, died March 1, 2000, in Round Rock.
She was buried in Cook-Walden/Capitol Park Cemetery
at Pflugerville, Texas. Davis Funeral Home of Georgetown, Texas, was in charge of arrangements.
Popham was born Jan. 23, 1913, in Winfield, to Frank and Ida Belle (Armstrong) Kimsey.
She married Kenneth Golightly with whom she had four children, Doloris, Richard, Barbara and Robert. After the couple divorced, she moved from Winfield in the 1940s.
She later married Lawrence Glass with whom she had three children, Loreena, George and Michael. The Glasses also divorced.
On June 27, 1962, she married Harry Popham in Hebron, Neb. He died in 1993.
Survivors include three daughters, Doloris Godsey, Winfield, Barbara Counts, Akron, Ohio, and Loreena Fogle, Austin, Texas; four sons, Richard Golightly, Winfield, Robert Golightly, Corpus Christi, Texas, George Glass, Austin, Texas, and Michael Glass, no address given; 20 grandchildren and many great-grandchildren.
Jana Seidel
Services for Jana Lou Seidel were held at 3 p.m. March 9, 2000, in Colonial Chapel of Miles Funeral Service. The Rev. Larry Jones officiated.
Music selections were "I Will Be Free" and "Tears in Heaven," presented by Gina Towell.
