Marlene “Katy” Zeller, 77, of Maple Hill, Kansas, died Monday, October 14, 2019, at Plaza West Healthcare and Rehab Center in Topeka. She was a long-time resident of the area.

Katy was born on January 9, 1942, in Rural Paxico, Kansas, the daughter of Francis M. and Mary M. Deiter Zeller. She attended local schools and graduated in 1960 from Paxico High School.

Katy worked for the State of Kansas in the SRS department for 35 years. She worked the in welfare payment processing and claims. Katy loved working in her yard and enjoyed tending her flowers, especially her peonies, irises and roses. She enjoyed any time she could spend with her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Katy collected angels and beer steins, and loved her dog, Pride.

Katy married Leo Hutley. They were later divorced.

Katy is survived by her son; Greg (Geri) Hutley, Topeka; her grandchildren, Valery (John) Noll, Hayden, Colorado, and Michael Riley, Topeka; her great grandchildren Jonathan, Ethan, Hunter and Ella; her siblings, Carmen Hiegert, Paxico, and Ronald “Rocky” Zeller, Wamego; her god-daughter, Marilynn Hiegert; and numerous nieces and nephews and friends. She was preceded in death by her parents, her companion Fred L. Mathies in 2018, her brother, Herb Zeller and her brother-in-law, Eugene Hiegert.

Memorial Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 10:30 am, Saturday, October 19, 2019, at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Newbury, Kansas. Fr. Mike Peterson will be the Celebrant. Inurnment will follow at Sacred Heart Catholic Cemetery. The family will greet friends following the graveside committal at a luncheon held at the church hall. They suggest memorial contributions to Topeka Humane Society or Sacred Heart Catholic Church, and those may be sent in care of Campanella-Gentry Funeral Home in Alma.

Curtis C. Wall, 61, passed away Friday, October 11th in Enterprise. He was born September 2, 1958 in West Palm Beach Florida, the son of Leo Curtis Bennett and Peggy Jo Ann (Wrenn) Wall. In 1978, Curtis joined the US Army becoming a tank mechanic and retired in 2005. After retiring, he made his home in Kansas. He is preceded in death by his parents.
Curtis is survived by his wife, Cheryl of Enterprise, three children, two adopted grandchildren and five grandchildren.
The family has chosen cremation. Private family inurnment will take place at a later date. The family suggests in lieu of flowers memorials in his name be made to his adopted grandchildren’s education fund.

Lorene Evelyn Visser, age 102, of Riley, passed away Saturday, October 12, 2019 at the Leonardville Nursing Home.

She was the born on August 11, 1917, the second child of Ludwig and Ida Erickson Lund.  Lorene grew up with her four brothers and one sister on the farm her grandfather had homesteaded near Lasita in northern Riley County.  She attended Pleasant Hill Grade School and graduated from Green High School in 1935.  She attended Emporia State Teachers College and taught in several one-room schools in Riley County before her marriage to George Visser May 12, 1945.  With a team of horses and a John Deere Model A tractor, they established their farm three miles east of Riley.

She was baptized and confirmed in the Alert Swedish Covenant Church.  She joined the Magic Methodist Church when she married her husband and was an active member of the Magic Church and the Riley Methodist Church after the 2 churches merged in 1952.  In 1977 she and George were selected as Kansas Master Farmer and Master Farm Homemaker, a well-deserved honor.  She served on the Boards of the Leonardville Nursing Home and the Riley County American Cancer Society.  She was active in numerous church, agricultural and community organizations and she was the community leader for the Happy-Go-Lucky 4-H Club when her children were in 4-H.

She was preceded in death by her husband, George Visser; her granddaughter, Jennifer Webster; her sister Maxine McGuire and husband Marvin; three brothers, Waldon Lund and wife Irene, Maurice Lund and wife Iva and Leland Lund and wife Marion; her in-laws, Margaret Lund, LeRoy and Evelyn Visser, Harold Visser, Kenneth and Rosemary Visser and Evelyn and Xen Smith.

She is survived by four children, Arletta Webster and husband Jim of Stillwater, Oklahoma, Gordon Visser and wife Sondra of Manhattan, Vinton Visser of Riley and Adel Visser and husband Jim Otto of Sacramento, California; one brother, Elmo Lund of Hays; twelve grandchildren are Brad Webster and wife Tanya, Laura Anderson and husband Bob, Gary Visser and wife Terri, Daniel Visser, Rodney Visser and wife Sady, Melissa Hampton and husband Ryan, Lance Visser and wife Jessie, Justin Visser and wife Valerie, Brit Visser, Todd Visser, Austin Otto and wife Sarah and Lindsay Otto; twelve great grandchildren, James and Joseph Webster, Levi, Garrett and Cassie Anderson, Michael Visser, Graham and Greyson Hampton, Jeremiah, Samuel and Eleanor Visser and Luke Otto;  her in-laws, Virgil and Marion Visser, Eugene and Lois Visser, Albion and Julie Visser and Irene Visser and numerous nieces and nephews.

The family will receive friends from 7:00 until 8:30 p.m. Friday at the Anderes-Pfeifley Funeral Home.

Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, October 19, 2019 at the Riley United Methodist Church with Pastors Kevin Larson and Phil Smith officiating.  Burial will be in the Riley Cemetery.  Immediately following the burial will be a luncheon for family and friends.

In lieu of flowers, memorials have been established for the Riley County 4-H Foundation and Johnson Cancer Research Center.  Contributions may be left in care of the Anderes-Pfeifley Funeral Home.

 

 

Helen Virginia Haage, age 93, of Herington, entered her heavenly home on October 10, 2019, at the Legacy of Herington. She was born on September 5, 1926, at Herington, the daughter of Frank Burton and Leola Pearl (Burdette) Kendall.  She had one brother, William Marion Kendall, and attended Latimer grade school.  Graduated from Herington High School with the class of 1944 and went to Hutchinson Business School.

Helen married Jennings “Bryan” Haage on March 23, 1946, at the First Baptist Church in Herington.  She helped her husband in his business. They were the parents of a daughter, Constance L. Haage, two sons, William Bryan Haage, and Robert Wayne Haage. The family was active in the First Baptist Church and she taught Sunday School for many years.

Bryan and Helen were married sixty-one years when he preceded her in death on July 11, 2007. She is also preceded in death by a son, Bill Haage, on January 13, 2013; brother, Bill Kendall, on July 30, 2001, and her parents.

Helen is survived by daughter, Connie Haage, and son, Bob Haage, both of Herington.

The funeral will be held at the First Baptist Church of Herington, on Wednesday, October 16, 2019, at 10:30am with Rev. Darrell Geist, officiating.  Burial will follow at Sunset Hill Cemetery.  Family will receive friends at the church, Wednesday, October 16, 2019, from 9:30am-10:15am.  Memorial gifts may be given to the First Baptist Church:  and may be sent in care of YMZ Funeral Home, 404 S Broadway, Herington, KS 67449.

Wanda Fern Llewelyn, age 92 of Clay Center, passed away Friday, October 11, 2019 at the Salina Regional Health Center.

She was born on March 29, 1927 in Leonardville, the daughter of Rudolph Richard and Leda Anna (Harvey) Lindstrom.

On April 3, 1947, she was married to Vaughan Calvin Llewelyn.  He survives of Clay Center. Wanda was mainly a homemaker, but did work outside of the home in the fabric department at Wal-Mart.  She was a member of the Clay Center Christian Church and was involved with the Women’s Circle Group and was a member of the Abilene China Painter’s Club.  She enjoyed china painting, crocheting, sewing and crafts.

In addition to her husband, she is survived by one son, Daniel Llewelyn and wife Kim of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; three daughters, Jeanette Sharp and husband Maurice of Wakefield, Patricia Scott of Overland Park and Jane Zimbelman and husband Kris of Edmond, Oklahoma; one brother, Richard Lindstrom of Fresno, California; one sister, Darlene Gravenstein of Topeka; nine grandchildren, twenty great grandchildren and two great great grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents; two brothers, Franklin and Marvin Lindstrom; one sister, Letha Lovell and one son-in-law, Larry Scott.

Funeral services will be held at 1:00 p.m. Wednesday, October 16, 2019 at the Anderes-Pfeifley Funeral Home with Pastor Maria Foerschler officiating.  The family will receive friends from 7:00 until 8:00 p.m. Tuesday.  Burial will be in the Bala Cemetery.

A memorial has been established for the Meyer Center for Special Children, 1132 Rutherford Road, Greenville, South Carolina 29609.  Contributions may be left in care of the Anderes-Pfeifley Funeral Home.

Clarence W. Swallow, Professor Emeritus, 90, passed away on 10 October, 2019. Clarence was the second son of Clarence W. Swallow, Sr. and Esther (Shaw) Swallow. He was born on the 26th of February 1929 in Richter, Kansas, raised on a farm that straddled the Franklin-Osage County line. Clarence graduated from Quenemo High, Quenemo, Kansas in 1947. Clarence enrolled at Kansas State University where he received an undergraduate degree in Agronomy in 1951. He enlisted in the Army in 1951 and was eventually stationed in La Plata, Maryland.

Clarence returned from the military and enrolled in graduate school at KSU in the Department of Agronomy. In 1954 he received his Masters degree in Agronomy, and in the same year began his career at Kansas State University as Superintendent of the Agronomy Research Farm. From 1954 until his retirement in 1994 Clarence developed modern plot equipment for research and expanded the research mission of the Department of Agronomy with his expertise in mechanics and farming.

Clarence provided leadership in establishing Division A-7, Agricultural Research Station Management, of the American Society of Agronomy (ASA). He served as its first chair in 1979. Professor Swallow had an international reputation for research equipment design, and was invited to present and consult on research equipment design around the world. Many of his designs were adopted by equipment manufactures worldwide.

Clarence married Joyce I. Kaiser in May of 1956 in Miltonvale, Kansas, and they made their home in Manhattan, Kansas in the Ashland Community. Clarence is survived by his wife Joyce Swallow of 63 years and by two children Joy Swallow and husband Brian Ball of Kansas City, Missouri; Kevin Swallow, of Kansas City, Missouri; one grandchild Alexander Ball and wife Anna Stelmach of Kansas City, Missouri, and a sister Marge Bigham of Vassar, Kansas. He was preceded in death by his parents, Clarence & Esther Swallow, brother Leonard Swallow, sisters Edythe Figgins, Mary Louise Hughes, and Elaine Swallow.
The family will greet friends during a visitation from 2:00 until 4:00 p.m. Sunday the 20th of October 2019 at the Ashland Community Church, Manhattan, Kansas.
There will be a memorial service on the 21st of October 2019, 10:30am, at the Ashland Community Church, Manhattan, Kansas. Burial will be at the Ashland Community Cemetery.

Memorial contributions in memory of Clarence are suggested to the Ashland Community Church Building Fund. Contributions may be left in care of the Yorgensen-Meloan-Londeen Funeral Home, 1616 Poyntz Avenue, Manhattan, Kansas 66502.

 

Charles T. Brooks, Sr., 89, of Manhattan, KS, passed away Friday, October 11, 2019, in Junction City, Kansas.

Charles was born in Panther, West Virginia on September 13, 1930, to Effie (Lilly) and Donnie Brooks.  After graduating from High School he earned his Electrician’s License. He then served in the U.S. Air Force as a General Radio Mechanic in Japan and Korea during the early stages of the Korean conflict.

He was a member of the Church of the Latter-Day Saints. He loved Bee Keeping, gardening, and just being outside.

Charles is survived by his daughter, Laura Brooks, of McDonough Georgia; two sons Charles (Beth) Brooks Jr., of Honey Grove TX; Nathan (Erin) Brooks, of Manhattan, KS; his two sisters, Laura (Frank) Beach of Gent, KY; Lilly Herring, of Seneca, South Carolina, 14 grandchildren, and 27 great-grandchildren.

He is preceded in death by his parents, his ex-wife Nancy (Doll) Brooks, second wife Shirley (Gibbs) Brooks, his third wife Barbara (Askew) Brooks, and two siblings Louise Haynes and John Brooks.

Public Visitation will be held at Irving-Parkview Funeral Home on Wednesday, October 16, 2019, at 0830 hrs.
A funeral service will be held at Irving-Parkview Funeral Home on Wednesday, October 16, 2019, at 0900 hrs.
He will be buried at the Kansas Veteran’s Cemetery, 5181 Wildcat Creek Rd, Manhattan, KS 66503 on Wednesday, October 16, 2019, at 1000 hrs.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be directed to the Save Farms Program 8859 Green Valley Dr, Manhattan, KS.  Arrangements have been entrusted to Carlson’s Irvin-Parkview Funeral Home and Cremation.

Elaine Elizabeth Bishop, 79, of Manhattan, KS, passed away Thursday, October 10, 2019.

Elaine was born in Chicago, IL on February 17, 1940. Her parents were Lillian (Tipman) and Edward Behrens.

She loved to play Yahtzee, go to the casinos and play the slot machines, solving crossword puzzles and watching TV, and she liked having a clean and organized home.

Elaine is survived by her two daughters, Jodie (Richard) Bailey, of Independence, MO; Terese (Gregory) Vontz, of Oberlin, KS; her two sons Bob (Stacy) Bishop, of Manhattan, KS; Derry M. (Lisa) Bishop, of Peoria, AZ; two sisters, Susan (Gary) Plummer, Darlene Sturlis, a brother, Edward “Butch” Behrens, an Aunt Sonja Martyniuk, 19 grandchildren, and 21 great-grandchildren.

She is preceded in death by her parents, a granddaughter Crystal Bishop, a great-grandson Peyton Fife, and her former spouse Derry W. Bishop.

In lieu of flowers Memorials in her name can be made to the Meadowlark Hills Honstead House.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Thursday, October 17, 2019, at 11:00 AM at St. Thomas More Catholic Church. A Visitation will be on Wednesday October 16, 2019 from 6:00 PM till 8:00 PM, Rosary at 7:00 PM at Carlson’s Irvin-Parkview Funeral Home. Arrangements have been entrusted to Carlson’s Irvin-Parkview Funeral Home and Cremation.

Robert “Bob” James Quinn, 74 of rural Chapman, KS, passed away on October 10, 2019 at his home under the care of Dickinson County Hospice.

He was born November 8, 1944 in Clifton, South Carolina to Robert “Ted” F.  and Geneva M. (Altom) Quinn.  Bob grew up in Clifton, SC and graduated from Cowpens High School. In 1965, at the age of 19 years, he was drafted in the United States Army and served his country for 20 years. He served in Vietnam from 1966 through 1967 and earned two Purple Hearts and two Bronze Stars among other medals.  After returning from his tour in Vietnam, he married Sharon M. Williams on December 30, 1967 in Spartanburg, SC.  Bob and Sharon raised their three children, Robert James, II, Jason Timothy, and Samantha S. Quinn. His service took him and his family around the world including multiple bases in the United States and two tours in Germany. Bob served honorably and with distinction as he did with everything else in his life. He retired September 30, 1985 at the rank of Sergeant First Class.

After retirement he settled in Kansas and spent his retirement years hunting, fishing and his hobbies of photography, woodworking, military history, gunsmithing.  But what brought him the most enjoyment was time with his family, especially his grandchildren.

He is survived by his wife, Sharon of the home; sons, Robert James (Jeannie) of Purcellville, VA  and Jason Timothy (Annamarie) of Albuquerque, NM; daughter Samantha S. (Shawn Weber) Quinn of Aurora, CO; twelve grandchildren; sisters, Carol Ann White, Lucille Adams, of Inman, SC,  Hoyt Loretta Cheatwood  and brother, Samuel C. Quinn, both of Boiling Spring, SC.

Visitation will be Monday, October 14 from 6:00 – 7:30 p.m. and funeral service will be Tuesday, October 15 at 10:30 a.m. Both services will be at Lyona UMC, 1850 Wolf Rd, Junction City, KS. Pastors Kris Brinlee and Claudia Bakely officiating.

In lieu of flowers the family requests memorials be made to the Dickinson County Hospice or Lyona United Methodist Church in care of Londeen Funeral Home, PO Box 429, Chapman, KS 67431.

Carol Smith never met a stranger. If he did, they weren’t one for long. A friend noted that he “earned a level of honor and respect that few men will ever know.”

But if you knew Carol, you would know that he wouldn’t take the praise. Instead, he’d offer you a small smile, almost as if he was embarrassed to accept anyone’s gratitude and praise.

He was known for his kindness, his dedication to his family, his service to others, his willingness to help a stranger, and his humility. But maybe even more important, he was also known for his incredible head of hair. To this day, the envy of his sons and even a few of his grandsons.

Carol wasn’t a good man. He was the best man.

We will miss him terribly…the buddies he drank coffee with each morning, his friends at the Senior Center, his family and his friends. Each one of us who were privileged enough to share time with him will feel a void, but we can take comfort that he is now together again with Pat, know that he is where he wants to be, most likely taking care of her and looking over all of us, smiling down.

Carol LeRoy Smith was born February 22, 1932 to Eva and Roy Smith, in Alta Vista. He attended Alta Vista schools and graduated high school in 1950. Carol served in the United States Navy for four years, where he served as cook on the USS Samuel Roberts. Upon his return to  the area, he married Patricia Smith, who preceded him in death in 2016.

Together, Carol and Patricia had three sons, Michael (Eunice), Timothy (Karen), and Gregory (Tammy), and one daughter, Sheryl (Jack). Carol has 14 grandchildren, 18 great-grandchildren, and six great-great-grandchildren.  He is also survived by three brothers,  Kevin (Marlene) Smith, Clinton (Reta) Smith and Sheldon (Gloria) Smith; two brothers-in-law, Roger (Marian) Worcester, and Paul (Pat) Worcester and one sister-in-law Karen (Galen) Smith.

He is preceded in death by his parents, brother Galen, and son Michael.

Visitation will be Monday, October 14, from 5:00-7:00 p.m. at Simpson United Methodist Church in Alta Vista.  Funeral service will be Tuesday, October 15 at 2:00 p.m. at Simpson United Methodist Church in Alta Vista.

Memorials may be given to Simpson United Methodist Church, 508 Logan St, Alta Vista KS 66834.