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Cora Diaz
Cora Diaz, 69, of 323 Loomis, Winfield, died Jan. 21, 2000, at William Newton Memorial Hospital.
A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated at 2:30 p.m. Monday at Holy Name Catholic Church. Burial will be in St. Mary's Cemetery.
A Rosary will be said at 7 p.m. Sunday at Miles Funeral Service.
Friends may call at the funeral home from noon to 7 p.m. Sunday.
Diaz was born Jan. 25, 1930, in New Salem, to Bonifacio and Adriana (Corrales) Jurado. She was educated in New Salem schools and later received her general equivalency diploma (GED).
On Sept. 4, 1954, she married Pete H. Diaz. They made their home in Winfield. Mr. Diaz died June 21, 1974. She worked in the dietary department at William Newton Memorial Hospital from 1978 to 1998 when she retired.
She was a member of Holy Name Catholic Church,
Survivors include two sons, Pete Diaz, Wichita, and Lupe Diaz, Winfield; a daughter, Rita Sweet, Hurst, Texas; five brothers, Bonny Jurado, North Platte, Neb., Manuel Jurado, Anaheim, Calif., Lupe Jurado, Olathe, and Lee Jurado and Raymond Jurado, both of Wichita; three sisters, Jenny Cabrera, Escondido, Calif., Jessie Contreras, Wichita, and Toni Ramos, Winfield; and nine grandchildren.
Vernon Drake
Vernon William Drake, 89, of Route 1, Winfield, died Jan. 21, 2000, at Cumbernauld Village.
Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday at Grandview United Methodist Church. Burial will be in Wilmot Cemetery. Friends may call at Miles Funeral Service from noon to 9 p.m. Sunday.
Memorials have been established with Grandview United Methodist Church and Hospice Inc. Contributions may be made at the funeral home.
Drake was born Oct. 29, 1910, to William David and Pearl Edna (Wilson) Drake. He attended Winfield area schools and graduated from Winfield High School in 1927. He worked at Kay & Kaw Furniture Store as a young man.
On May 3, 1931, he married Neva Weigle in Winfield. The couple have farmed one and a half miles north of Floral since 1933.
Drake was a member of Grandview United Methodist Church and the Elks Lodge. Her served on the boards of Floral and Sunnyside schools during the time Sunnyside was built.
He was president of the Timber Creek Watershed Board for 35 years, during which time 33 dams, including one that created Winfield City Lake, were built for flood control. He was a member of the Walnut River Watershed Board, the Farm Bureau Board, the Cowley County Livestock Board and the Conservation Board. He received numerous soil conservation awards.
Survivors include his wife, Neva Drake, Cumbernauld Village; two sons, Don Drake, Winfield, and Mark Drake, Topeka; a daughter, Diane Sidwell, Tabernash, Colo.; two sisters, Dorothy Bernard, Winfield, and Genevra Hayes, Wichita; nine grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.
Freida Brewer
Freida M. Brewer, 88, of 1320 Wheat Road, Winfield, died Jan. 23, 2000, at William Newton Memorial Hospital.
Services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Miles Funeral Service. Burial will be in Douglass Cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home from 3 to 9 p.m. Tuesday.
A memorial has been established with the First United Methodist Church. Contributions may be made at the church or funeral home.
Brewer was born Dec. 29, 1911, at Douglass, to Fred and Ollie (Briggs) Elliott. She received her education in Winfield area schools and graduated from Winfield High School in 1930.
On Aug. 20, 1930, she married Harry John Brewer in Colorado Springs. They made their home in Winfield. She worked for Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. and retired after 20 years of service. Her husband died in 1974.
Brewer was a member of the First United Methodist Church.
Survivors include a son, John Brewer, Burden; a daughter, Nan Brewer, Ames, Iowa; a brother, Fred Elliott, Wichita; six grandchildren, four stepgrandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren and nine stepgreat-grandchildren.
Doris Miles
BURDEN - Doris H. Miles, 74, a resident of Burden for over 50 years, died Jan. 22, 2000, at William Newton Memorial Hospital in Winfield.
Services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Burden United Methodist Church. Burial will be in Burden Cemetery.
Friends may call at Miles Funeral Service from noon to 9 p.m. Tuesday and until noon Wednesday.
A memorial has been established with the Burden United Methodist Church. Contributions may be made through the church or funeral home.
Miles was born Sept. 28, 1925, in Katanning, Western Australia, to David and Sophie (Quartermaine) Jones. Following her parents' death when she was a child, she was raised by her aunt, Hannah Jones Alderson, in Perth, Western Australia. She received her education at High Gate Hill School in Perth and worked as a seamstress as a young woman.
She met U.S. Army Private Hayward Miles in 1943 when he was sent to Australia for treatment of malaria which he had contracted in New Guinea. They married in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, on Sept. 2, 1944.
Following World War II, the couple lived in St. Louis where her husband was attending the College of Mortuary Science. They lived and worked in funeral homes in Ellsworth and Cottonwood Falls. In 1947 they moved to Winfield where he was employed by Morris Funeral Home. In 1948 they purchased the Burden Funeral Home from E.L. Gann and later acquired the Cedar Vale Funeral Home. They served those communities for over 35 years as Miles Furniture and Mortuary. Her husband died in 1983, and she sold the business in 1985.
A longtime member of the Burden United Methodist Church, she was a Sunday school teacher and worked in United Methodist Women for nearly 50 years. She also served in community and civic organizations.
She retained her Australian citizenship and returned to Australia for a family reunion in 1984.
Survivors include three sons, John Martin, Houston, David Miles, Winfield, and Jeff Miles, San Diego; a daughter, Maureen E. Moore, Burden; three brothers, William Jones, Allen Jones, and Ernest Jones, and three sisters, Phyllis Booker, Elsie Piper and Connie Murphy, all of Australia; nine grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
A son, Paul Alan Miles, died in 1984.
Anna Wineinger
DERBY - Anna Mae Wineinger, 82, formerly of Oxford and Longton, died Jan. 22, 2000, at Vintage Place in Derby.
Services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Oxford United Methodist Church. Pastor Wayne Handle will officiate. Burial will be in Memorial Lawn Cemetery
at Arkansas City.
Friends may call at Oliver-Hawks Funeral Home until 8 p.m. today and Tuesday.
A memorial has been established with the Oxford United Methodist Church. Contributions may be made at the church or funeral home.
Wineinger was born Dec. 30, 1917, on a farm south of Oxford, to Melville W. and Emma (Botinger) Swaim. She graduated from Geuda Springs High School and later from Arkansas City Junior College. She worked at a family bakery in Wichita until she married.
On Dec. 13, 1940, she married Paul Gilbert Wineinger in Geuda Springs. In March 1941 a second ceremony was held at Slate Valley Baptist Church. The Wineingers lived and farmed near Longton until moving to Oxford in 1978.
She was a member of the United Methodist Church in Oxford and in Longton where she was the church secretary-treasurer for many years. In Longton she had also been a member of the women's circle and bridge club.
Her husband died Aug. 15, 1996. Wineinger moved to Derby in September 1998.
Survivors include two daughters, Paula VanBuskirk, Peck, and Vickie Pickell, Stillwater, Okla.; a brother, Francis "Tad" Swaim, Geuda Springs; a sister, Daisy Nichols, Andover; three grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
Laura Beal
DOUGLASS - Laura Lou Beal, 87, retired Carr Rock Quarry bookkeeper and Douglass city clerk, died Jan. 23, 2000.
A remembrance gathering will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday in the First Christian Church fellowship hall.
Memorials have been established with the First Christian Church and Douglass Public Library.
Survivors include a son, Richard W. Beal, Effingham; a daughter, Sara Bohrer, Burden; five grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
Hilyard-Smith Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Frank Carr
WELLINGTON - Frank M. Carr, 99, of Wellington, died Jan. 23, 2000, at Cedarview Good Samaritan.
Services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Friday at Frank Funeral Home. Pastor Sallie Shore will officiate. Burial will be in Sumner Memorial Gardens.
Friends may call at the funeral home from 3 to 9 p.m. Thursday.
Memorials have been established with the Multiple Sclerosis Society and the First Christian Church.
Carr was born May 23, 1900, in Colwich, to William L. and Alice L. (Van Horn) Carr.
On May 11, 1925, he married Nola E. Underwood in Anthony. She died in 1983.
Carr retired as a conductor for the Santa Fe Railroad after 42 years of service.
He was a member of the First Christian Church, NARVE and the United Trainmen Union.
Survivors include a son, Arlis Carr, Wellington; a daughter, Aileen Butters, Winfield; a brother, Merle Carr, Valley Center; a sister Mildred Baringer, Attica; four grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
Cora Diaz
A Mass of Christian Burial for Cora Diaz, 69, who died Jan. 21, 2000, was held at 2:30 p.m. Jan. 24 at Holy Name Catholic Church. The Rev. Michael Maybrier officiated. Burial was in St. Mary's Cemetery.
Dorothy Groene was the organist. Music included "Ave Maria" and "The Prayer," recorded by Celine Dion.
Casket bearers were John Amezcua, Dave Cline, Greg Feaster, LeRoy Jones, Alvin L. Sweet, Alvin R. Sweet and James Tapia.
A Rosary was said at 7 p.m. Jan. 23 at Miles Funeral Service.
Vernon Drake
Services for Vernon William Drake, 89, who died Jan. 21, 2000, were held at 10:30 a.m. Jan. 24 at Grandview United Methodist Church. The Rev. Connie Wooldridge officiated. Burial was in Wilmot Cemetery.
Rose Marie Watt was the organist, and Richard Clower sang "In the Garden" and "Rock of Ages."
Honorary casket bearers were Walt Lewis, Don Long, Paul Stuber and Raymond Wallace.
Casket bearers were Don Ehling, Dee Lewis, Walter Meyers, Warren Sickles, Daryl Thiel, Don Thiel and Larry Thiel.
Memorials have been established with Grandview United Methodist Church and Hospice Inc.
Miles Funeral Service was in charge of arrangements.
