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Clarence Merz
ARKANSAS CITY - Clarence Albert Merz, 85, farmer and carpenter, of Arkansas City, died April 2, 1999, in Wichita.
Services were held at 10 a.m. April 5, 1999, at the Hillcrest Bible Baptist Church. The Rev. Rick Williams officiated. Burial was in Parker Cemetery.
A memorial has been established with Hillcrest Bible Baptist Church. Contributions may be made through the church or Hawks Funeral Home.
Merz was born Dec. 6, 1913, in Kay County, Okla., to Henry D. and Anna S. (Antholz) Merz. He grew up and attended Grant School in Newkirk, Okla.
On July 20, 1933, he married Opal Evelyn Stigleman in Kay County. They moved to Cedar Vale in 1944 and in 1970, to Arkansas City.
Mr. Merz was a member of Hillcrest Bible Baptist Church.
Survivors include his wife, Opal Evelyn Merz, Arkansas City; three sons, Allen Ray Merz and Leon Max Merz, both of Arkansas City, and Everett Lee Merz, Las Vegas, Nev.; a daughter, Marie Ann Norton, College Station, Texas; 11 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.
A son, Clarence E. Merz, preceded him in death.
Goldie Snyder
SEDAN - Goldie Mae Snyder, 87, homemaker, of Sedan, died April 3, 1999, at Sedan City Hospital.
Services will be held Wednesday at 1 p.m. in the Graves-Baird Chapel in Sedan. Burial will be in Burden Cemetery. The Rev. Joe Thomas will officiate. Graves-Baird Funeral Home has charge of arrangements.
Memorials have been established with the Sedan Church of Christ. Contributions may be left at the funeral home.
Snyder was born Sept. 6, 1911, in Rome, to Joseph E. and Bertha B. (Hatton) Rhodes.
On March 10, 1934, she married Clarence Earl Snyder. He died on May 10, 1978.
She was a member of the Sedan Church of Christ.
Survivors include a son, Richard Joe Snyder, Wichita; a daughter, Joyce Julian, Sedan; a brother, Harold Rhodes, Winfield; five grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.
Phyllis Miller
ARKANSAS CITY - Phyllis Ernestine Miller, 69, lifelong resident of Arkansas City, died April 2, 1999, at South Central Kansas Regional Medical Center.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday at Trinity Episcopal Church in Arkansas City. The Rev. Bill Fulton will officiate. Burial will be at Memorial Lawn Cemetery.
Friends may call at Hawks Funeral Home Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Wednesday from 9 to 11:30 a.m. The family will receive friends on Tuesday evening from 5:30 to 7.
Contributions to the Phyllis Miller Memorial can be left at the funeral home.
Miller was born Nov. 5, 1929, in Arkansas City, to Buddie Ernest and Nettie Viola (McGlothen) Hale. She grew up and attended school in Arkansas City.
She was a member of Trinity Episcopal Church.
Survivors include two daughters, Marilyn L. (Grubb) Coury and Victoria J. (Buck) Vaughn, and two sisters, Louise DiVall and Hazel Zimmerman, all of Arkansas City; two brothers, Arthur Hale, Grove, Okla., and Wendell Hale, Winfield; five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Pete Whiteside
PARSONS - Millard Samuel "Pete" Whiteside, 92, formerly of Fall River, died April 1, 1999, at the Labette County Medical Center in Parsons.
Graveside services were held at 2 p.m. April 5, 1999, at the Charleston Cemetery
near Fall River. Greenwood Lodge163 Ancient Free and Accepted Masons conducted Masonic rites.
Lloyd G. Zimmerman sang "In the Garden."
A memorial has been established with the Greenwood Lodge AF&AM. Contributions may be left with Zimmerman Funeral Home.
Whiteside was born Aug. 23, 1906, at Neodesha, to Frank E. and Clara (Thompson) Whiteside. He attended school and grew to manhood in the Neodesha community.
He was employed by the Greenwood County Highway Department for several years before becoming a rural mail carrier in the Fall River area.
On May 31, 1928, he married Nellie Miller at Fredonia. They made their home in Fall River for most of their lives. On Sept. 23, 1942, Miller became postmaster of Fall River and remained in that position until his retirement in 1966.
He was a resident of Fall River until 1996, when he entered the Golden Keys Nursing Home in Neodesha. After the death of his wife on Dec. 10, 1997, he moved to the Good Samaritan Center in Parsons to be near family.
Whiteside was a member of the Rural Mail Carriers Association and an active supporter of the Democratic Party. He was a past master of Greenwood Lodge 163, AF&AM and was a member of Greenwood Lodge for more than 63 years.
He is survived by his niece, Marie Thomas, Neodesha; a nephew, Donald Whiteside Denton, Texas; a brother-in-law, E.W. Miller, Parsons, and a sister-in-law, Phyllis Nevitt, Neodesha.
Charles Andreae
Charles O. Andreae, 70, of 707 N. College, Winfield, died April 4, 1999, at William Newton Memorial Hospital.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Miles Funeral Service with burial in Highland Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home until 9 p.m. today.
Born March 21, 1929, at Madison, he was a son of Ottmar and Lena (Kinzle) Andreae. He lived in Kansas until moving to Denver as a teen-ager. He graduated from high school in Denver.
Andreae served with the U.S. Army Engineering Battalion in Germany. He then returned to Denver and married Catherine E. David in the early 1950s. They later divorced.
Andreae began employment with Mountain Bell Telephone in the early 1950s and retired in 1982 as a lineman and installer in the Denver and Evergreen, Colo., areas.
He lived to the Ozark, Mo., area for seven years before moving to Winfield in 1998.
Andreae attended New Life Chapel/First Foursquare Church in Udall and was a former member of the Elks Lodge and American Legion at Evergreen.
Survivors include three sons, Mark, David and Rocky Andreae, all of Winfield; a daughter, Christine Whittemore, Hudson, Colo.; a brother, Lewis Andreae, and a sister, Frances Vaughn, both of Denver; nine grandchildren and one great-grandson.
A son, William Andreae, preceded him in death.
Shirley Cooper
WICHITA - Shirley Arlene Cooper, 63, of Wichita, formerly of Sedan, died April 1, 1999, at Riverside Hospital in Wichita.
Services were held at 11 a.m. April 5 at Pleasant Valley Baptist Church in Wichita. The Rev. Earl Kinney officiated. Burial will take place later. Baker Funeral Home of Valley Center was in charge of arrangements.
Cooper was born Feb. 27, 1936, in Sedan, to William R. and Mary Bell (Crow) Baker.
She was a retired manager of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 112.
Survivors include a son, James Cooper, Wichita; a daughter, Cheryl Horton, Maize; three brothers, William Baker and Earl Baker, both of Wichita, and Jim Baker, Maize; five sisters, Esther Cohoon and Fern Biggs, both of Wichita, Wilma Bollinger, Derby, Maggie Ashford, Keifer, Okla., and Connie Slinkard, Collinsville, Okla.; six grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
Donald Myrick
GUTHRIE, Okla. - Donald Myrick, 56, of Guthrie, died April 2, 1999, at his home.
A memorial service will be held at the First Assembly of God Church in Guthrie. The body was cremated, and burial will be held later.
A memorial has been established with the Oxford Christian Church.
Myrick was born Sept. 12, 1942, in Wichita, to Orval and Mildred (Foth) Myrick. The family moved to Oxford in 1956, and he graduated from Oxford High School in 1960.
In 1966 he married Wendy Jones in Oklahoma City.
Survivors include his wife, Wendy Myrick, and a son, James Christopher Myrick, both of Guthrie; his mother, Mildred Myrick, Winfield; and a brother, Bob Myrick, and a sister, Sandra Sawyer, both of Oxford.
Berniece Wood
ARKANSAS CITY - Berniece L. Wood, 84, of Arkansas City, formerly of Cedar Vale, died April 2, 1999, in Wichita.
A Rosary service was held at 7 p.m. April 5 in Hawks Funeral Home Chapel. A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated at 10 a.m. April 6 at Sacred Heart Catholic Church. Burial was in Greenlawn Cemetery
at Grenola.
A memorial has been established with William Newton Memorial Hospital.
Wood was born June 22, 1914, in Leads, to N. Ceal and Emma (Carter) Fisher. She moved from Cedar Vale to Arkansas City in 1953.
In 1957 she married Harry C. Wood, who died in 1967.
Wood worked as a private duty licensed practical nurse and also in the dietary departments at Winfield State Hospital and Training Center and St. Joseph's Hospital in Wichita.
She was a member of Sacred Heart Catholic Church.
Survivors include a daughter, Pat Mullin, Mount Morris, Ill.; a grandson whom she raised, Danny E. Donohue, Winfield; three other grandsons, David W. Donohue, Arkansas City, Donald E. Donohue, Winfield, and John P. Mullin, Milwaukee, Wis.; and three granddaughters, Patricia R. Street, Arkansas City, Mary K. Mullin, London, England, and Margaret A. Mullin, Houston.
Two sons, Dannie Cloyd Donohue and Ivan Charles Donohue, preceded her in death.
