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Jack Hendrickson

Services for Jack C. Hendrickson were held at 2 p.m. Jan. 17, 2002, in Highland Cemetery. The Rev. Gene Blake officiated.

Music included "Morning Has Broken" and "How Great Thou Art."

Military rites were performed by American Legion Post 10 and Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3544.

A memorial has been established with the Winfield Church of Christ.

Miles Funeral Service was in charge of arrangements.

Thelma Ploughe

WICHITA - Thelma N. Ploughe, 89, of Wichita, former El Dorado public school music teacher and St. Paul's United Methodist Church Christian education director, died Jan. 17, 2002.

Services will be at 3 p.m. Saturday at College Hill United Methodist Church. Burial will be in Resthaven Cemetery.

A memorial has been established with College Hill United Methodist Church, 2930 E. First St., Wichita, KS 67214.

Downing & Lahey Mortuary is in charge of arrangements. Condolences may be sent via www.downingandlahey.com.

Ploughe was born Nov. 4, 1912, in Winfield, to Anna Elizabeth (Moran) and William T. Snyder.

Her husband, Dr. Joseph S. Ploughe, preceded her in death.

Survivors include a daughter, Elizabeth Ploughe Klitzke, White Bear Lake, Minn.; two sisters, Ruth Johnson, Wichita, and Pauline Florian, Banning, Calif.; three grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.

Maxine Champlin

DENISON - Maxine Hall Champlin, 82, of Denison, formerly of Cedar Vale, died Jan. 17, 2002, at a Winchester care facility.

Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Monday at the First Baptist Church in Cedar Vale. Burial will be in Cedar Vale Cemetery.

Friends may call at Mercer Funeral Home in Holton today and Sunday and from 12:30 to service time Monday. The family will greet visitors from 4 to 5 Sunday.

Memorial contributions may be sent to Jefferson County Geriatric Center, c/o Mercer Funeral Home, 1101 W Fourth, Holton, KS 66436.

Champlin was born Aug. 8, 1919, near Sedan, to Gertrude (Wolfe) and Charles Hall.

On Jan. 24, 1938, she married Rollin Champlin in Ponca City. He died Oct. 24, 1985.

Champlin lived in and around Cedar Vale for most of her life and worked at many jobs, including bookkeeping for the co-op elevator, cooking at a restaurant and clerking at a variety store. She spent most of the years working at the locker plant as a butcher, meat processor, bookkeeper and manager.

She was a member of the First Baptist Church and American Legion Auxiliary.

Survivors include a son, Rollin Champlin, Oklahoma City; a daughter, Karen Sue Gordon, Denison; a sister, Doris Bobbitt, LaGuna Vista, Texas; two granddaughters and two great-grandsons.

Dorothy Hall

Services for Dorothy Mildred Underwood Hall were held at 2:30 p.m. Jan. 18, 2002, in Colonial Chapel of Miles Funeral Service. The Rev. Shawn Sturm officiated. Burial was in Highland Cemetery.

Music included "The Old Rugged Cross," "Peace in the Valley" and "Beyond the Sunset."

Honorary casket bearers were Chuck Cronister, Charles Hall, George W. Liermann and Jerry Norton.

Casket bearers were Roger Benjamin, Jason S. and Justin D. Butler, Marvin Kimbrell and Clint W. and George D. Liermann.

Memorials have been established with the Lupus Foundation of America and Winfield Meals on Wheels.

Jack Heffner

Services for Jack Krieger Heffner were held at 10:30 a.m. Jan. 18, 2002, in Colonial Chapel of Miles Funeral Service. The Rev. Ted Brown officiated. Burial was in Highland Cemetery.

Joyce Bloyer was the pianist, and Alberta Brown performed "The Old Rugged Cross" and "In the Garden."

Honorary casket bearers were Marlin Heffner and Gary Wells.

Casket bearers were Ronnie Hoskins, George and Paul Parsons, Elvin Turner and Jamie and Ray Weidman.

A memorial has been established with Hackney Community Baptist Church.

Martha Welch

ST. JOHN - Martha Lucille Welch, 77, of St. John, died Jan. 16, 2002, at Southwind Hospice Guest House in Pratt.

Services will be 1:30 p.m. today at Minnis Chapel in St. John. Burial will be in Fairview Park Cemetery.

Memorials may be made to the Southwind Hospice or Guest House, both in care of Minnis Chapel, St. John.

Welch was born Jan. 14, 1925, in Dexter, to Madelsa (Thompson) and Charles L. Hankins.

On June 22, 1946, she married Rafael Jack Welch in Winfield. He died Nov. 22, 1988.

Welch was a homemaker, a retired registered nurse and a bookkeeper. She was a member of the First Baptist Church and a former member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary, both of St. John.

Survivors include three sons, Terry J. Welch, Pat Welch and Mike Welch, all of St. John; two daughters, Sheryl Keller, St. John, and Karel Buckman, Greensburg; a brother, Vernon Hankins, Winfield; two sisters, Sarah Fern Steward, Winfield, and Avis Rhodd, Dexter; 16 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.

Homer Bishop

Services for Homer Kenneth "Chief" Bishop were held at 2 p.m. Jan. 19, 2002, in Colonial Chapel of Miles Funeral Service. The Revs. Larry Womacks, Doug Dorris and Julie Shields officiated.

Special music included "Candle in the Wind" by Elton John and "Amazing Grace" played as a bagpipe solo.

Burial was in Highland Cemetery. American Legion Post 10 and Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3544 provided military honors.

Honorary casket bearers were E.G. "Mutt" Craft, Roy Jones, Pauline Jones and F.E. Shaffer.

Casket bearers were Bishop's grandsons, Lance and Rex Bing, Gabriel and Patrick Bishop, Clint Blankenbaker, Merle Dennett, Cody, Collin, Joshua and Skyler Rice and Phillip Strauhs.

A memorial has been established with the Atlanta Volunteer Fire Department First Responders.

Verna Jestes

DEXTER - Verna Lucille (Miller) Jestes, 93, of Dexter, formerly of Guthrie, Okla., died Jan. 19, 2002, at Grouse Valley Manor.

Services were at 2 p.m. Jan. 21 at Miles Funeral Service. Burial was in North Cedar Creek Cemetery, west of Cedar Vale.

A memorial has been established with the Grainola (Okla.) Methodist Church. Contributions may be made through the funeral home.

Jestes was born Nov. 30, 1908, near Hooser, to Mary Ellen (Hooser) and Alexander "Tink" Miller. The family moved to Fletcher, Okla., and then to Grainola, Okla. When she was 11, her mother died. Shortly after that, she moved to Kansas City, Mo., to live with a brother and his family. She was one of the first graduates of Paseo High School in Kansas City.

In 1924 she moved to Ponca City.

On Jan. 12, 1929, she married Elmer Virgil Jestes in Arkansas City. During the 1930s they moved to Guthrie, Okla., and worked for Fairmont Creamery Co. They also farmed and during World War II worked in the aircraft industry in Tulsa. After the war they ran a Help-Ur-Self Laundry and later a restaurant and doughnut shop in Guthrie.

In 1953 she began working in the office of the Masonic Grand Lodge of Oklahoma and later worked as a secretary and bookkeeper for a family that owned several nursing homes. In the 1960s Jestes retired and moved to Ozark, Mo.

Her husband died Jan. 24, 1966, and she later returned to Guthrie to live in a retirement community.

In 1998 she moved to Dexter to be close to her grand-niece and had resided at Grouse Valley Manor.

Jestes was a member of the First Baptist Church of Guthrie and the Order of Eastern Star.

Survivors include a stepson, Robert Jestes, Tulsa, Okla.; two stepgranddaughters and two stepgreat-grandsons.

Ella Bender

Ella Lee Bender, 77, of 604 E. 18th, Winfield, died Jan. 20, 2002, at her home.

Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Miles Funeral Service. Burial will be in Highland Cemetery.

Friends may call at the funeral home from 5 to 9 tonight. The family will greet visitors from 6 to 8.

Memorials have been established with the Make-A-Wish Foundation, Ronald McDonald House and American Cancer Society. Contributions may be made through the funeral home.

Bender was born Oct. 8, 1924, in Oklahoma, to Gertrude (Morrow) and William G. Duke. She was raised in Oklahoma and as a teenager moved to El Dorado, Ill., where she graduated from high school in 1942.

She resided in Hoisington and Russell and in the early 1950s moved to Winfield where she was employed at McGillís Restaurant until the early 1970s. In 1972 she became a business partner with Jodi Laubhan in the restaurant business.

On Aug. 31, 1974, she married Donald R. Bender in Winfield.

Bender worked at Graves Drug Store from 1985 until retiring in 1997.

Bender was a member of the American Legion Auxiliary.

A son, James Blake, and a daughter, Constance Beaumont, preceded her in death.

Survivors include her husband, Donald Bender, Winfield; four sons, William ìBillî Blake, Chula Vista, Calif., Richard ìRickî Blake, Larned, Michael Asbury, Winfield, and John Kenny Massie, San Francisco; a daughter, Pamela Miller, Ridgeway, Ill.; a stepson, Michael R. Baldwin, Peoria, Ill.; two stepdaughters, Angela Shear and Pamela Bender, both of Winfield; 14 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

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