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Elsie Dale
CEDAR VALE - Services for Elsie L. Dale were held at 11 a.m. July 6, 2001, in Cedar Vale Cemetery. The Rev. Dr. Stanley Upchurch officiated.
Special music included "How Great Thou Art" and "The Old Rugged Cross," performed by Mark Johnson.
Honorary casket bearers were Doug Busby and Bill and Rob Kanehl.
Casket bearers were Lincoln and Jason Lewis, Aaron Killingsworth, Gaylan and Ryan Nett and Donnie Coe.
A memorial has been established with Hospice Inc.
Miles Funeral Service was in charge of arrangements.
Helen Dowler
ARKANSAS CITY - Helen M. Dowler, 93, of Arkansas City, died July 8, 2001, at her residence.
Memorial services will be 2 p.m. Thursday at St. Paul United Methodist Church.
A memorial has been established with the Kansas Teachers Association. Contributions may be made through Rindt-Erdman Funeral Home.
Dowler was born April 12, 1908, to Stella M. (Sickles) and Rhodes B. Mead in Dexter. She graduated from Dexter High School in 1925 and from Southwestern College in 1928.
On April 24, 1934, she married Chester H. "Bill" Dowler in Winfield where they made their home for a few years. They later moved to Arkansas City.
Dowler taught in rural Cowley County schools for 20 years. She also worked as a psychiatric aide at Winfield State Hospital & Training Center. She retired in 1973.
She was a member of Hackney Baptist Church, a life member of the Order of Eastern Star and attended St. Paul United Methodist Church in her later years.
Dowler's husband, Bill Dowler, and a daughter, Patricia Dowler, preceded her in death.
Survivors include a son, Gary L. Dowler, Sioux Falls, S.D.; a daughter, Nancy C. Dillon, Arkansas City; 12 grandchildren, numerous great-grandchildren and several great-great-grandchildren.
Robert George
TOPEKA - Robert Lyle George Sr., 85, died July 8, 2001, at a local hospice house in Topeka.
Services will be held 9 a.m., Wednesday at Penwell-Gabel Mid-Town Chapel. Burial will be in Sacred Heart Cemetery
in Emporia at 11:30 a.m.
Friends may call at the funeral home after noon Tuesday. The family will receive friends from 6:30 to 8.
Memorial contributions may be given to Midland Hospice House, 200 SW Frazier Circle, Topeka, KS 66606, or Westminster Presbyterian Church, 1275 Boswell, Topeka, KS 66604.
George was born July 31, 1915, in Burnside, Ill., to Bessie (Kimler) and Jacob B. George. He graduated from Neosho Falls High School and received a bachelor of science degree in commerce and education from Emporia State University and a master's degree in business administration from Colorado State College of Education. He became a certified public accountant in 1967.
On Nov. 2, 1942, he married Wilma Prchal in Emporia.
George entered the Army in August 1941. During World War II, he served as the quartermaster supply officer for the 11th Airborne Division in Australia, New Guinea and the Philippines. He was honorably discharged as a captain in 1946.
George taught high school at Neosho Rapids High School, was an associate professor of business and economics at the College of the Ozarks, Clarksville, Ark., head of the department of business and economics at Highland Junior College and chairman of the department of business and economics at Southwestern College in Winfield.
He was the chief accountant for the State of Kansas, Administrative Audit, Accounts and Reports, for 15 years. He retired in 1981.
George published "Investment, The Game of Finance" (1961) and a board game, "Spend Government Spend" (1981).
He was a member of Pi Gamma Nu Social Science Honorary Fraternity, honored as the Highland Junior College 1954 yearbook dedication, city council member of Oxford, taught investments and auditing at Washburn University and was a lifetime member of American Legion Post 1 and Veterans of Foreign Wars, Post 1650.
Survivors include his wife, Wilma George, Topeka; a son, Robert L. George Jr., Shawnee Mission; a daughter, Patricia B. Miller, Wichita; a brother, Jacob George Jr., and a sister, Virginia Dutton, both of Colony; and two grandchildren.
Mildred Luney
Services for Mildred Aubuchon Morgan Luney were held at 9 a.m. July 7 in the Colonial Chapel of Miles Funeral Service. The Rev. Steve Rankin and David Nichols officiated. Burial was in the Gentry Okla., Cemetery.
Honorary casket bearers were Clyde Aubuchon, Bob Nichols, Kenny Richards and Bob Rixon.
A memorial has been established with the American Heart Association.
Alan Pegorsch
Alan Louis Pegorsch, 50, of Winfield, died July 6, 2001, at William Newton Hospital.
Memorial services will be 3 p.m. Tuesday at Trinity Lutheran Church.
A memorial has been established with the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Contributions may be made through the church or Miles Funeral Service.
Pegorsch was born April 7, 1951, in Marion, to Elizabeth (Yarhm) and Louis Pegorsch. He was raised and educated in the Marion area and graduated from Marion High School in 1969.
On Oct. 3, 1970, he married Laura Thiessen at Goessel, and they made their first home in Marion.
As a young man, Pegorsch worked as a mechanic, a welder and for the highway department.
He resided in Wyoming before moving to Winfield in the 1970s. He received an associate's degree from St. John's College and later attended Concordia College in Seward, Neb. In 1985 he graduated with honors from Southwestern College with a bachelor of fine arts degree.
Pegorsch was disabled with multiple sclerosis and had resided at Good Samaritan Village for the past two years.
An artist, his work was displayed in a show at Good Samaritan Village in August of last year. Pegorsch called himself a colorist, a Courier story reported at that time.
"'I like colorful things,' he said. For him the power of his paintings lies in their looseness. 'They're not structured or confining.' Indeed, the paintings leap off the canvas," the Courier critic wrote.
"Pegorsch said he still draws, but because of the MS, he doesn't have as much control of his hand as he used to. 'I love to draw,' he said. 'It's abstract drawing. Being my hands don't stay real still, I can just go nuts." None of his drawings were in the show, but his paintings, from early in his career, make one want to see his later work, too," the reviewer wrote.
Pegorsch was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church and was affiliated with the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
Survivors include a son, Aaron Blake Pegorsch, Winfield; a brother, Dwight Gooding, Marion; and three grandchildren.
Warren Wright
ARKANSAS CITY - Warren Byrle Wright, 76, of Arkansas City, died July 7, 2001, at his residence. His death was due to complications from an accident with a horse in Texas in March 2000.
Services will be 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Grandview United Methodist Church in Winfield. Burial will be in Wilmot Cemetery.
Miles Funeral Service is in charge of arrangements.
Memorials have been established with Grandview United Methodist Church in Winfield and St. Paul's United Methodist Church in Arkansas City. Contributions may be made through the churches or the funeral home.
Wright was born March 19, 1925, in Arkansas City, to Hazel (Smith) and Robert Baxter Wright. He was raised and educated in Arkansas City.
On July 28, 1945, he married Mary Lou Sandstrum at the United Brethren Church in Arkansas City. She died on Oct. 1, 1999.
During World War II he served in the 38th Infantry.
After the war, the couple made their home on a farm in Douglass where he raised cattle. In 1953 they moved to Atlanta and resided there until 1963 when they moved to Winfield. Wright worked with Blair Oil Co. from 1953 to 1967, then for General Electric as a jet engine mechanic. He retired from GE in 1985.
He was a member of Grandview United Methodist Church. In 1998, he and his wife moved to Arkansas City, where they attended the St. Paul's United Methodist Church.
Wright was a lifetime member of the American Legion Post 10 and the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3544.
Survivors include a son, Brad Wright, Columbia, Mo.,; a daughter, Lynn Westgate, St. George; a brother, Smith Wright, Ponca City; five grandchildren and two great-grandsons.
B>Russell Henderson
Russell Joseph Henderson, 23, longtime resident of Winfield, died July 5, 2001, at William Newton Hospital.
A Mass of Christian burial was celebrated at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Ellinwood. The Rev. David Flagor officiated. Burial was in Hillcrest Cemetery
north of Great Bend.
A memorial service will be held in Winfield at a later date.
A memorial has been established with Creative Community Living.
Kimple Funeral Home, Ellinwood, was in charge of arrangements.
Henderson was born Jan. 5, 1978, in Great Bend, to Elizabeth Ellen (Sanko) and Martin Arthur Henderson.
Survivors include his mother, Beth Bruno, Great Bend; his father, Martin Henderson, Florida; a brother, Tim Henderson, and a half-sister, Theresa Arnold, both of Great Bend; and his grandparents, Wilbur and Imogene Sanko, Great Bend, and Meg Kinzel, Hutchinson.
Robert Finney
Services for Robert L. Finney were held at 10 a.m. July 9 in Highland Cemetery. The Rev. Buddy Cook officiated. Finney was buried with military honors.
Music included "One Day at a Time," by Sandi Patti, and "Grandpa," by the Judds.
Family members served as casket bearers.
A memorial has been established with the American Heart Association.
Miles Funeral Service was in charge of arrangements.
