He graduated from Ellis High School in 1945 and was a U.S. Army veteran.
He married Doris E. Kinderknecht in September 1947. She died in November 1985. He married Rosalie Dietrich in May 1987. She died in September 2003.
He was a longtime Ellis resident. He was the manager of the Golden Belt Co-op Farm Supply Store for many years. He was a farmer-rancher. He was a member of the Ellis Veterans of Foreign Wars, American Angus Association and was a Scout leader.
Survivors include two sons, Greg, Atlanta, Ga., and Bruce, Manhattan; a stepson, Fred, Wamego; two daughters, Sandra Grabbe, Orlando, Fla., and Rebecca Bray, West Bloomfield, Mich.; three stepdaughters, Debbie Fisher, Mesa, Ariz., Lynda Spurgeon, Harlem, Ga., and Laura Riedel, Haysville; seven grandchildren; and 10 step grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by three sisters, Ethel Solomon Berland, Florence Krannawater and Carrie Tawney.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Wasinger Funeral Chapel, Ellis, with the Rev. John Binder officiating; burial in Mount Hope Cemetery, Ellis. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.
Memorials are suggested to the Ellis Good Samaritan Center.
Hays Daily News, 1/19/2004
He graduated from Ellis High School in 1945 and was a U.S. Army veteran.
He married Doris E. Kinderknecht in September 1947. She died in November 1985. He married Rosalie Dietrich in May 1987. She died in September 2003.
He was a longtime Ellis resident. He was the manager of the Golden Belt Co-op Farm Supply Store for many years. He was a farmer-rancher. He was a member of the Ellis Veterans of Foreign Wars, American Angus Association and was a Scout leader.
Survivors include two sons, Greg, Atlanta, Ga., and Bruce, Manhattan; a stepson, Fred, Wamego; two daughters, Sandra Grabbe, Orlando, Fla., and Rebecca Bray, West Bloomfield, Mich.; three stepdaughters, Debbie Fisher, Mesa, Ariz., Lynda Spurgeon, Harlem, Ga., and Laura Riedel, Haysville; seven grandchildren; and 10 step grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by three sisters, Ethel Solomon Berland, Florence Krannawater and Carrie Tawney.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Wasinger Funeral Chapel, Ellis, with the Rev. John Binder officiating; burial in Mount Hope Cemetery, Ellis. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.
Memorials are suggested to the Ellis Good Samaritan Center.
Hays Daily News, 1/19/2004
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