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Sarah Macharia

KANSAS CITY, Kan. - Sarah M. Macharia, 40, of Kansas City, Kan., formerly of Winfield, died Jan. 16, 2001.

Memorial services will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at Grace United Methodist Church. She will be buried in the family compound in Nairobi, Kenya.

A memorial has been established to help her family defray funeral expenses. Contributions may be made through the church or Miles Funeral Service.

Macharia was born Oct. 6, 1960, in Nairobi, Kenya, to Grace and Frances Macharia. She was raised in Kenya and educated in a Catholic girls school there. Following emigration to the United States, she attended Emporia State University.

After graduation, she dedicated her life to working with the developmentally disabled and brain-injured individuals.

She worked in Las Vegas, Nev., with brain injury victims and was employed by several agencies in Kansas communities, including McPherson, Emporia and Topeka. She worked at Focus Developmental Center in Winfield for several years and was executive director for Pathways in Macksville for a short time. She had most recently served as executive director of Res-Care in Kansas City.

Survivors include her parents, Frances and Grace Macharia, Nairobi, Kenya; three brothers, John Macharia, Peter Macharia, and Noah Macharia, and two sisters, Edda Macharia and Beatrice Macharia, all of Great Britain.

Mildred Lemert

CEDAR VALE - Mildred H. Lemert, 94, of Cedar Vale, died Jan. 18, 2001, at Pleasant Valley Manor in Sedan.

Cremation has taken place. A memorial service will be 11 a.m. Wednesday at Wheeler Funeral Home in Cedar Vale.

Memorials have been established with the Cedar Vale Church of Christ, the Maude Carpenter Children's Home or a charity of the donor's choice.

Lemert was born Aug. 15, 1907, on a farm northeast of Cedar Vale, to Bertha (Stewart) and Arthur Lemert. She graduated from Cedar Vale High School in 1925 and obtained a teaching degree from Kansas State University in 1929. She attended several other universities and also took study tours in Europe and the Middle East.

Lemert taught school in Cedar Vale and Clay Center before retiring and was a member of the National Education Association, the Kansas National Education Association and Delta Kappa Gamma sorority. She was a member of the Cedar Vale Church of Christ.

After she retired, she helped at the Cedar Vale Library and was on the staff that published the Cedar Vale history book in 1975.

Survivors include several nieces and nephews including Joy Fadely, Sedan, and R.R. Hake, Woodland Hills, Calif.

Jeanette Foskett

Jeanette M. Foskett, 81, of Winfield, died Jan. 18, 2001, at Winfield Rest Haven.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday in Tannehill Cemetery.

Friends may call at Swisher-Taylor & Morris Funeral Home until 7 this evening.

Memorial contributions can be made to the Michigan Lupus Foundation, 26202 Harper Ave., St. Clair Shores, MI 48081.

Foskett was born Nov. 20, 1919, in Winfield, to Bessie (Heydecker) and Arthur McClung. She attended Tannehill rural school and graduated from Winfield High School in 1937.

On March 29, 1947, she married Cash Pechin in Wichita. He died in March 1970.

In July 1980 she married Roy J. Foskett in Arkansas City. He died in April 1985.

Foskett worked for Beech Aircraft Corp. as a timekeeper and payroll clerk before her retirement.

Survivors include a sister, Perle Miles, Wichita; a stepdaugther, Kathleen Schlecht, Lewiston, Mich.; and a stepson, Michael Shellburn, address not given.

Donna Meinert

DAVIS, Ill. - Donna Lou Meinert, 70, of Davis, died Jan. 11, 2001, in Freeport Memorial Hospital.

Services were held Jan. 15 at St. Paul's United Church of Christ near Davis with the Rev. James Pfefferkorn officiating. Burial was in St. Paul's Cemetery.

Meinert was born Feb. 4, 1930, in Iowa Park, Texas, to W.E. and Maud Dezell. She attended school in Atlanta, Kan., and Texas. On March 6, 1970, she married Fred Meinert.

She attended St. Paul's United Church of Christ.

Survivors include her husband, Fred Meinert, Davis, Ill.; two daughters, Glenda Stewart and Crystal Stebbins, Freeport, Ill; five stepchildren, Lauren Meinert of Monroe, Wis., Shirla O'Bannon, Dover, Ark., Steven Meinert, La Vaca, Ark., Kathy Morrow, Hartman, Ark., and Fred L. Meinert, Eau Claire, Wis.; a brother, Garland Dezell, Lawton, Okla.; two sisters, Maureta Meyer, Rock, and La Rue Lohmeier, Davis, Ill.; 15 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Estella Reynolds

NATOMA - Estella I. Reynolds, 76, of Sterling House in Hays, longtime resident of Natoma, died Jan. 20, 2001, at Via Christi Regional Medical Center-St. Francis Campus in Wichita.

Her service will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the Natoma Presbyterian Church. The Rev. Dan Hatfield will officiate, and burial will be in Natoma Cemetery.

Friends may call at Pohlman's Mortuary from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday and at the church from 10 a.m. until the service Wednesday.

A memorial has been established with the Renal Care Unit of Hays.

Reynolds was born July 10, 1924, near Natoma to Walter and Myrtle (Frazier) Dougherty. She attended rural school and Natoma schools, graduating in 1942.

After working at a defense plant in Denver, she graduated from Fort Hays State University with a bachelor's degree in elementary education. She taught for more than 30 years before retiring in 1988.

On April 8, 1944, she married Bob Reynolds. He died Aug. 31, 1991.

She was a member of the United Presbyterian Church of Natoma.

Survivors include a daughter, Joyce Rorabaugh, Hays; a son, Walter "Doc" Reynolds, Burden; two sisters, Ellen Snyder, Munjor, and Lois Doty, Natoma; two brothers, John Dougherty, Oklahoma City, and Charles Dougherty, Logan; and six grandchildren.

Gladys Richardson

ARKANSAS CITY - Gladys A. Richardson, 80, of Arkansas City, died Jan. 20, 2001, at South Central Kansas Regional Medical Center.

Her service will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Riverview Cemetery with Jesse A. Kindred officiating.

A memorial has been established with South Central Kansas Regional Medical Center Home Health Care. Contributions can be made through Rindt-Erdman Funeral Home.

Richardson was born Aug. 11, 1920, in Arkansas City to Clyde and Margaret (Martin) Thomas. She graduated from Arkansas City High School in 1937.

On May 21, 1937, she married Jewell W. Richardson in Arkansas City. They lived in Arkansas City, and she was a homemaker.

Survivors include four sons, Bobby Don Richardson, Arkansas City, Jimmy Gene Richardson, Haysville, Richard Lee Richardson, Cassville, Mo., and Robert Eugene Richardson, Silverdale; a daughter, Sylvia Jane Fry, Arkansas City; a brother, Billy Dean Thomas, Whittier, Calif.; 16 grandchildren and numerous great-grandchildren.

Clyde Ernst

Clyde H. Ernst, 92, of Cumbernauld Village, Winfield, died Jan. 21, 2001, at William Newton Hospital.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Grace United Methodist Church. Burial will be at 2:30 p.m. in Lyons City Cemetery.

Friends may call at Swisher-Taylor & Morris Funeral Home from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Thelma Hamm Ernst Music Scholarship at Southwestern College.

Ernst was born April 12, 1908, in Lyons, to Cora and Henry Ernst. He was raised there and graduated from high school in 1925. He graduated from Southwestern College in 1930.

In the 1930s he married Thelma Hamm. She died in 1980.

In 1983 he married Allene Gray. She died May 23, 1998.

From 1945 to 1971 Ernst taught fifth and sixth grades and was also the music teacher in the Raymond school system near Lyons.

He lived in Lyons most of his life before moving to Cumbernauld Village. He was a former director of the Rice County Historical Museum in Lyons.

Ernst was active in the First United Methodist Church in Lyons and was named the Lyons Citizen of the Year in the 1980s.

Survivors include two stepsons, Dennis Gray, Highland, Ind., and Allen Gray, Eureka, Calif.; two stepdaughters, Zoe Ann Gray, Nashotah, Wis., and Jean Wilcox, Eau Claire; Wis., nine grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Jimmy James

LAKE STEVENS, Wash. - Jimmy L. James, 65, of Lake Stevens, died Jan. 20, 2001.

Services will be Wednesday at Snohomish Church of the Nazarene. Burial will be in the GAR Cemetery in Snohomish, Wash.

Memorial contributions may be made to the South Everett Church of the Nazarene, 1832 Madison, Everett, WA 98203.

James was born March 4, 1935, in Russett, Okla., and had been a Snohomish County resident since 1969. He retired from the Boeing Co. after 34 years of service.

Survivors include his wife of 44 years, Carole Lee James, and a son, Rod James, both of Lake Stevens; three daughters, Sheree Fry, Monroe, Wash., Patti Kelly, Bothell, Wash., and Evelyn James, San Rafael, Calif.; his father, Theron "Joe" James, Lake Stevens; a brother, Howell Martin James, Ashland, Ore.; and seven grandchildren.

Ora Stacy

WICHITA - Ora Conrad Stacy, 65, of Wichita, formerly of Arkansas City, died Jan. 21, 2001, at Riverside Hospital.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday in Riverview Cemetery, Arkansas City. Friends may call at Hawks Funeral Home until 8 tonight.

Stacy was born Aug. 29, 1935, in Arkansas City, to Wilma Roberta (Gephardt) and Edward Stacy. When he was eight years old, the family moved to Wichita where he graduated from Plainview High School in 1953.

Stacy worked for Dr. Pepper Bottling Co. until it closed, then for the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. until he became disabled.

He was a member of the Shiloh Pentecostal Church in Haysville.

Survivors include a brother, Gerald Stacy, Parker, Colo.

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