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Vera Brothers
BURDEN - Vera M. Brothers, 75, of Route 1, Burden, died June 11, 1998, at Via Christi Regional Medical Center-St. Francis Campus, Wichita.
Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at Tisdale United Methodist Church with the Rev. Quentin Bennett officiating. Burial will be in Tisdale Cemetery.
Friends may call at Miles Funeral Service from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday.
A memorial has been established with Tisdale United Methodist Church.
Brothers was born Aug. 6, 1922, at Hackney to Charles C. and Lillian Mary Ruth Dowler. She attended Holland rural school near Hackney and graduated from Winfield High School in 1939. She then attended Southwestern College and earned a degree in home economics.
On Aug. 6, 1943, she married D. Jay Brothers at Hackney, and they made their first home on a farm near Geuda Springs. They later lived and worked on farms in the Winfield, New Salem and Dexter areas before moving to their dairy farm near Burden in 1961.
Brothers was a longtime member of Tisdale United Methodist Church.
Her husband died April 10, 1985.
Survivors include three sons, Devere and David Brothers, Winfield, and John Brothers, Burden; a sister, Velma Hankins, Winfield; five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Carole BakerARLINGTON, Texas - Carole I. Baker, 57, of Arlington, formerly of Winfield, died June 11, 1998, in Dallas.
Services will be held at 3:30 p.m. Saturday in Arlington Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will be in Moore Memorial Gardens.
Baker was born Dec. 11, 1940, in Stockton and lived in Winfield before moving to Arlington in 1968.
She was a member of the Moose Lodge.
Survivors include her husband, John E. Baker, and two sons, Christopher Morgan and Jeffrey Baker, all of Arlington; five daughters, Connie Thomas, Hurst, Texas, Carrie Griffin, Saginaw, Texas, Linda Herr and Carol Frickey, both of McPherson, and Patricia Goatley, Chico, Texas; a brother, Allen Lee Case, Clearwater; two sisters, Dorothy Maxine Sands, Arkansas City, and Neoma Horn, Las Vegas; 11 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Lula Evans
MULVANE - Lula Imogene Evans, 90, of Mulvane, died June 12, 1998, at Wesley Medical Center, Wichita.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Mulvane United Methodist Church. The Rev. Linda Louderback will officiate, and burial will be in Canton Cemetery.
Friends may call from noon to 8 p.m. Monday at Senter-Smith Mortuary.
Evans was born Sept. 10, 1907, at Madison.
Suvivors include two daughters, Phyllis Smith, Mulvane, and Isabell Ore, Burden; a sister, Lucille Thomson, Haven; seven grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.
Edith Hittle
Edith M. Hittle, 95, a resident of the Winfield area for over 65 years, died June 14, 1998, at Winfield Rest Haven.
Services will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at Miles Funeral Service. Private burial services will be held in Highland Cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday.
A memorial has been established with Hackney Community Baptist Church. Contributions can be made through the church or funeral home.
Hittle was born Sept. 19, 1902, on a farm near Oxford, to Harve and Naomi (Young) Hahn. The family moved to Rock when she was a young girl, and she attended Darian rural school, Winfield High School and later a business college.
On March 19, 1922, she married Loyd L. Hittle. They made their first home on a farm near Akron. They moved to a farm in the Bethel community in 1932 and to their farm near Hackney in 1941. The Hittles lived and worked there for 35 years.
After her husband's death in 1976, Hittle moved into Winfield.
A member of Hackney Community Baptist Church, she was formerly affiliated with the Winfield Saddle Club. She was a longtime volunteer at William Newton Memorial Hospital and for the Cowley County Fair Auxiliary.
Survivors include her sons, Loyd Hittle, Gerald Hittle and H.T. Hittle, all of Winfield; seven grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.
Aloah Quintana
BELLE PLAINE - Aloah A. Quintana, 74, of Belle Plaine, retired waitress, died June 14, 1998, in Mulvane.
Services will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Elliott Funeral Home in Harper. The Rev. Robert Hartmann will officiate. Burial will be in Harper Cemetery.
A memorial has been established with Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Danville.
Quintana was born Aug. 5, 1923, in Harper County, to Henry and Lida (Schoeneman) Brenneke.
She married Glenn Troyer, Gregg Hill and Delfino Quintana. They preceded her in death.
Quintana was a member of Good Shepherd Catholic Church in Pittsburgh, Calif.
Survivors include seven sons, Richard Troyer, Clintwood, Va., Ron Troyer and Ed Troyer, both of Harper, Scott Hill Cosgrove, Pocassett, Okla., Dan Hill, El Dorado, Kevin Hill Mackey, Hico, Texas, and Paul Matthew Roach, Florida; two daughters, Sondra Troyer, Winfield, and Denise Detwiler, Wichita; a sister, Mildred Hendricks, Haviland; 20 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Bishop Barnes
ARKANSAS CITY - Bishop J. Barnes Sr., 73, of Arkansas City, died June 12, 1998, at Wesley Medical Center in Wichita.
Services will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday at the North Summit Street Church of Christ. Burial will be in Riverview Cemetery.
Friends may call at Hawks Funeral Home Tuesday and Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Barnes was born July 31, 1924, in Weleake, Okla., to Bishop Wayman and Sallie (Byrd) Barnes. He graduated from Attycs School in Ponca City, Okla., and later attended Langston University.
During World War II, he served in the U.S. Armed Forces.
On June 4, 1945, he married Earmon Jean Williams in Newkirk, Okla.
Barnes moved to Arkansas City in 1951. During the early 1950s he was a Golden Glove heavyweight champion for Kansas. He worked in the smokehouse at Rodeo Meats for 18 years until the mid-1970s.
Survivors include his companion, Stella Jackson, Arkansas City; three sons, Cyrus Barnes, Arkansas City, Bishop J. Barnes Jr., Wichita, and Gerald Ray Barnes, Newkirk, Okla.; a daughter, Clara Miller, Wichita; three daughters of Ms. Jackson, whom he raised, Janice Jackson, Vickie Jackson, and Joyce Jackson, all of Arkansas City; three sisters, Amanda Lewis, Arkansas City, Artis Lolar, St. Paul, Minn., and Leola Barnes, Los Angeles; nine grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren.
Shelby Wilkinson
Erica Wilkinson
WICHITA - Shelby Rose and Erica Dawn Wilkinson, infant daughters of Eric and Dawnita Wilkinson of Wichita, died June 11, 1998.
Services were held at 1 p.m. June 15 in Douglass Cemetery. Resthaven Mortuary was in charge of arrangements.
Survivors include their parents and a brother, Sheldon Robert Wilkinson, all of Wichita; their grandparents, Bill and Peggy Wheeler and Paul and Roberta Wilkinson, all of Haysville; and their great-grandparents, Vivian Spaunhorst, Wichita, and Allie Wheeler, Enid, Okla.
Sharon Smith
OXFORD - Sharon K. Smith, 40, of Oxford, died June 13, 1998, as the result of an automobile accident west of Oxford.
Services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Hillside Baptist Church in Wellington. The Rev. Dane Massey will officiate. Burial will be in Oxford Cemetery.
Friends may call at Oliver-Hawks Funeral Service until 8 tonight.
A memorial has been established with Hillside Baptist Church. Contributions can be left at the church or funeral home.
Smith was born Dec. 3, 1957, in Wichita, to Andrew and Susie (Edwards) Epperly. She attended grade school in Wichita. Then the family moved to Udall, and she graduated from Udall High School in 1977.
On Aug. 7, 1976, she married Raymond Carl Smith in Winfield. They lived in Udall and Wichita before moving to Oxford 15 years ago.
A homemaker, Smith homeschooled her daughter, Amanda. She was a member of Hillside Baptist Church.
Survivors include her husband, Ray Smith, Oxford; two daughters, April Staley, Wellington, and Amanda Smith, Oxford; her father, Andrew Epperly, Udall; her mother, Susie Epperly, Ponca City, Okla.; four brothers, Bill Epperly, Wylie, Texas, Charles Epperly and James Epperly, both of Wichita, and Steven Epperly, Ponca City; two sisters, Helena Hare, Wichita, and Evelyn Hare, Udall; and her grandmother, Cletie Edwards, Ponca City.
Marvel Abel
UDALL - Marvel Abel, 93, of Udall, died June 15, 1998, at the home of a grandson in Mayville, Wis.
Services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Udall United Methodist Church. Burial will be in Pleasant Valley Cemetery
near Winfield.
Memorials have been established with the Udall United Methodist Church and St. Agnes Hospital Hospice Hope Fund, P.O. Box 1571, Fond-du-Lac, WI 54937-1571.
Abel was born Feb. 23, 1905, in Winfield, to Leonard and Mattie (Silvers) Pike. She attended schools in the Hackney and Winfield area and graduated from Winfield High School. After graduating she taught at two schools east of Hackney.
On Jan. 9, 1926, she married John O. Abel in Winfield. They lived on a farm nine miles east of Winfield before moving to a farm northwest of Hackney. After the farm became part of Strother Field, her husband worked there as a pipe fitter. In 1947 they moved to a farm four miles south of Udall.
Abel was a member of the Udall United Methodist Church. She was a Sunday school teacher and superintendent, director of the children's choir and Bible school teacher. She was also a member of the Cooperettes Extension Homemakers Unit.
Abel was preceded in death by her husband and a daughter, Maxine.
Survivors include three grandsons, Mark Morton, Mayville, Wis., Thomas Morton, Bartlesville, Okla., and Don Morton, Udall; a granddaughter, Rita Perry, Butte, Mont.; three stepgrandchildren; 25 great-grandchildren; six great-great-grandchildren and a son-in-law, Oscar Morton, Winfield.
Lester Lehmann
Lester Lehmann, 64, of 1009 E. 11th, Winfield, died June 16, 1998, at William Newton Memorial Hospital.
Services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday in Swisher-Taylor & Morris Chapel. The Rev. Rick Hathaway will officiate. Burial will be in Highland Cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday.
A memorial has been established with the American Lung Association.
Lehmann was born Oct. 19, 1933, in Rosco, Texas, to Augusta and Hilda Lehmann. He graduated from Rosco High School and attended St. John's College.
A U.S. Army veteran of the Korean War, he went to work for Ralph Bruce Implement as a mechanic and helped with farm work.
On June 10, 1966, he married Sandra Sue Barnes in Winfield. She died Jan. 2, 1997.
Lehmann was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church and the American Legion.
Survivors include a daughter, Barbara Staley, Winfield; a brother, Arthur Lehmann, Rosco, Texas; a sister, Lillie Schmidt, Austin, Texas; and two granddaughters.
