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Elsie Reynolds
MOLINE - Elsie Lou Reynolds, 87, of Moline, died Sept. 15, 1999, in Wichita.
Services were held at 10:30 a.m. Sept. 20 in Moline Cemetery. Pastor Robin Haines officiated. Honorary casket bearers were David Brace, Jim Byrnes, Joe Byrnes, John Clark, Jim Edgington, Mike Harbison and Virgil Hawkins. Columbia Chapter 142 of Howard conducted Eastern Star services.
A memorial has been established with the Moline United Methodist Church. Contributions may be made through Zimmerman Funeral Home of Howard.
Reynolds was born Dec. 20, 1911, at Ada, Okla., to John and Myrtle (Brown) Vance.
She graduated from high school in Wakita, Okla., and attended one year of college before completing cosmetology school in Wichita. She was employed as a cosmetologist in Wichita for several years.
In 1939 she married Howell Percy Reynolds in Wichita. They moved to Moline in 1940. Her husband died April 6, 1978.
Reynolds, a homemaker, was a member of the Order of Eastern Star for more than 50 years and currently a member of Columbia Chapter 142 of Howard. She was a longtime member of the Moline United Methodist Church and active in United Methodist Women.
Survivors include a son, John Reynolds, Jupiter, Fla.; a daughter, Nancy Winter, Mulvane; and a stepson, Alden McDonald, Topeka;
Marie Wilson
ARKANSAS CITY - Marie Lucille Wilson, 81, of Arkansas City, died Sept. 18, 1999, at South Central Kansas Regional Medical Center.
Services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday in Tannehill Cemetery
west of Arkansas City. The Rev. James Standerfer will officiate.
Friends may call at Hawks Funeral Home from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday.
Wilson was born Jan. 6, 1918, in Ada, Okla., to Alvin Elwood and Minnie Sylvina (Lewis) Dickson.
She moved to Arkansas City from Freedom, Okla., in 1995.
Survivors include two sons, Gary Gottlob and Grant Gottlob, both of Arkansas City; three brothers, Gene Dickson, Bluff City, Paul Dickson, Layton, Utah, and David Dickson, Bremerton, Wash.; three sisters, Pat Stuart, Arkansas City, Betty Gillett, Douglass, and Sue Shelton, Bluff City; six grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
Her husband preceded her in death.
Earl Bergman
ARKANSAS CITY - Earl J. Bergman, 80, of Arkansas City, died Sept. 20, 1999, at South Central Kansas Regional Medical Center.
Services will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday in Riverview Cemetery. Visitation is from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday and 9 a.m. to noon Thursday.
Bergman was born April 6, 1919, in Pond Creek, Okla., to Adolf and Anna (Dieglaman) Bergman.
He served with the U.S. Navy from 1942 to 1945.
In 1942 he married Eulene Cardell in Long Beach, Calif. They lived in the Blackwell area until moving to Arkansas City in 1952. She died in 1959.
On Jan. 1, 1960, Bergman married Grace Eleana Madden in Arkansas City. She died Sept. 10, 1997.
Bergman worked at Mauer-Neuer Meat Packing Plant in Arkansas City for 29 years until retiring in 1981.
He was a member of Shelton Beaty American Legion Post 18 and Spencer Ralston Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1254.
Survivors include three stepsons, Jan Chapman, Chula Vista, Calif., Ross Rommel, Arkansas City, and Chris Rommel, Spencer, Ind.; three stepdaughters, Kay Chapman, Lawrence, Penny Johnson, Tucson, Ariz., and Pam Mitchell, Okmulgee, Okla.; 15 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
Kenneth Day
Kenneth L. Day, 83, of 1 Glenville Corners, Winfield, died Sept. 19, 1999, at his home.
Services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at Miles Funeral Service. Burial will be in Highland Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday.
Memorials have been established with Hospice Inc. and the Evangelical Free Church. Contributions may be made through the church or funeral home.
Day was born Dec. 8, 1915, in Winfield, to Lemar Mead and Lula Alice (Curtis) Day. Kenneth was raised in Winfield where he attended Webster Elementary School and graduated from Winfield High School in 1933.
He began working in Winfield grocery stores and later began his career as a meat cutter.
On Dec. 1, 1936, he married Gladys L. Anderson at Newkirk, Okla. They resided in Winfield where he was employed by McConn Bakery.
A veteran of World War II, he served with the U.S. Army Air Force. Following discharge, he returned to Winfield.
He was employed for many years as a meat cutter for Sloan's, Winfield IGA store, Quesenberry Grocery, Grose's IGA in Arkansas City and Sheneman's Meat Market. He retired from Sheneman's in 1980 but continued to operate a meat-cutting business from his home for several years.
His wife died March 22, 1993.
A member of the Evangelical Free Church, he and his wife had served during a church mission trip to the Star Lake Indian Reservation in New Mexico.
Survivors include a son, Kenneth G. Day, Winfield; two daughters, Gwen Fox and Patty Dust, both of Winfield; a sister, Marie Arthur, Wichita; five grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
A daughter, Shirley Day, died Feb. 20, 1978.
Verle Dobson
Leverle K. "Verle" Dobson, 84, longtime resident of Walnut Hill Nursing Center, Winfield, died Sept. 19, 1999, at Walnut Hill.
Services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday in Union-Graham Cemetery. A procession will leave Miles Funeral Service at 1:30 p.m. There is no visitation.
Dobson was born Aug. 30, 1915, in Winfield, to Ray and Edith (Carey) Dobson. He attended Winfield schools, was active in sports and dramatics and graduated from Winfield High School in 1934.
He attended Cowley County Community College for one year, then transferred to Chillicothe Business College in Missouri, where he met Violet Jacobson. The couple married on April 11, 1939, in Missouri and resided in Winfield.
Dobson served in World War II with the Army Air Corps. He saw duty at several bases in the United States and did a tour of duty overseas in the Philippines. After discharge, he returned to Winfield and joined his father and brothers, Bob and Don, in forming Dobson Decorators.
His wife died Sept. 25, 1992.
Dobson was a member of the First Baptist Church, Elks Lodge, American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Survivors include a brother, Robert C. "Bob" Dobson, Winfield, and several nieces and nephews.
Gene Hatfield
CEDAR VALE - Kenneth Eugene "Gene" Hatfield, 76, of Cedar Vale, died Sept. 21, 1999, at Via Christi Regional Medical Center-St. Joseph Campus in Wichita after a long illness.
Services will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday at the First United Methodist Church in Winfield. Burial will be at 1:30 p.m. in Belle Plaine Cemetery.
Visitation will be Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. at Wheeler Funeral Home in Cedar Vale and at the church before the service.
Hatfield was born Nov. 12, 1922, in Belle Plaine, to Robert Benjamin and Golden May (Guinn) Hatfield. He was raised and educated in Belle Plaine and was a 1940 graduate of Belle Plaine High School.
A World War II veteran, he served in the Air Force from 1942 to 1945.
In 1946 Hatfield graduated from the Kansas City School of Mortuary Arts. He returned to Belle Plaine and operated Hatfield Funeral Home until 1981. He joined Wheeler Funeral Home in 1983 and moved to Cedar Vale in 1985. He had been a funeral director in Kansas for over 50 years and received an award from the Kansas Funeral Directors Association in 1997.
Hatfield was a member of the United Methodist Church and the Kansas Funeral Directors Association and was active in a variety of civic organizations while he lived in Belle Plaine.
Survivors include a sister-in-law, Juanita Hatfield, Belle Plaine; three nephews, Jim Hatfield and Robert Hatfield, both of Belle Plaine, and Larry Hatfield, Wichita; and four nieces, Kay Hatfield and Carol Sue Anderson, both of Belle Plaine, and Lou Ann Pursa and Gay Lynn Pursa, both of Coldwater.
Elias Hernandez
Elias Hernandez, 81, of 202 E. Fourth, Winfield, died Sept. 18, 1999, at his home.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday at Holy Name Catholic Church. Burial will be in Highland Cemetery.
A Rosary will be said in English tonight at 8 in Swisher-Taylor & Morris Memorial Chapel.
Hernandez was born July 20, 1918, in Aquascalientas, in the state of Aquascalientas, Mexico, to Crispin Lopez and Bonificia Martinez.
On Oct. 21, 1939, he married Carmen Manriquez in Hanford, Calif.
Hernandez worked for Santa Fe Railway for over 40 years in Kansas and Nebraska.
Survivors include his wife, Carmen Hernandez, Winfield; two sons, Tony Hernandez, Chicago, and Louis Hernandez, Tonkawa, Okla.; two daughters, Frances Barron, Winfield, and Rachel Hernandez, Chicago; brothers and sisters, in Mexico, Texas and Nebraska; seven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
A son, Louis Hernandez, and a daughter, Rose Hernandez, preceded him in death.
Lavena Newland
ARKANSAS CITY - Lavena Bittle Newland, 86, of Arkansas City, died Sept. 17, 1999, at the Presbyterian Manor Health Care Center.
Private services were held Sept. 18 in Springside Cemetery
at Arkansas City. Jesse Kindred officiated. Hawks Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
Newland was born May 17, 1913, in Kay County, Okla., to Robert and Ethyl (Gamble) Stevenson. She graduated from Geuda Springs High School and later attended Cowley County Community College.
On Nov. 29, 1933, she married Leland Holley Bittle in Enid, Okla., and they lived near Arkansas City. He died July 16, 1957.
Bittle graduated from Southwestern College in 1960 with a degree in education. She taught in elementary schools in Arkansas City until retiring in 1978.
On Oct. 12, 1978, she married C.M. Newland in Arkansas City. He died in the summer of 1982.
Newland had been a member of Grandview United Methodist Church and the Retired Teachers Association.
Survivors include a son, Wayne Bittle, Arkansas City; a daughter, Helen Hamilton, Asheville, N.C.; five grandchildren and several great-grandchildren.
A son, Douglas R. Bittle, was killed in the Vietnam War.
