Calvary Obituaries

DREILING, HEATHER ANN

EVANS, JUDITH ANN

EWALD, CARL J.

FINKLER, HAROLD P

GRANTHAM, JACK

HANNON, AGNES CLARE

HERBERS, ROBERT MICHAEL

FISCHER, HERMAN A.

GALLEGOS, MICHAEL

JOHNSTON, DANIEL ARTHUR

HEATHER ANN DREILING

The Augusta Daily Gazette, Friday, Oct. 28, 1983

DREILING GIRL BURIED TODAY
HEATHER ANN DREILING, 10-month-old daughter of Rick and Eileen Dreiling, was buried today in Calvary cemetery of rural Augusta. She died Wednesday night at the Wesley Medical Center in Wichita. A funeral service for the infant was held at 3 o’clock this afternoon in St. James Catholic church. Father James Eatough officiated. Heather Ann is survived by her parents, a sister, Hanna Marie, all of the home; grandparents, Alma and Mary F. Dreiling of Victoria; great grandparents, Sophia Dreiling of Victoria, and Anna Walters of Hays.

JUDITH ANN EVANS

The Augusta Daily Gazette, Saturday, Jan. 7, 1961, front page.

GRAVESIDE SERVICE FOR INFANT TODAY
Graveside services will be held at 2 p.m. today for Judith Ann Evans, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Harold Evans of Augusta. Services will be held in Calvary cemetery, Augusta, with Rev. C.E. Pfirman, pastor of St. James Catholic church, Augusta, officiating. Dunsford’s Funeral Home is in charge. The baby died at 3:20 a.m. yesterday in St. Francis hospital, Wichita. She was born in St. Francis hospital early Thursday morning. In addition to the parents, Judith Ann is survived by a brother, William Darren.

CARL J. EWALD

The Augusta Daily Gazette, Wednesday, Dec. 22, 1999

CARL JACOB EWALD, 75, Augusta, died Tuesday, April 18, 2000 at Via Christi St. Francis Medical Center in Wichita. His funeral service will be 10 a.m. Monday, April 24, at St. James Catholic church. Cremation will follow. A rosary will be said at 7 p.m. Sunday, April 23, at the church. This retired maintenance worker for ITT Hancock leaves his wife, Betty of Augusta; sons, James Ewald of Mio, Mich., Thomas Ewald of Lewiston, Mich., Steven Ewald of Kooskia, Idaho; daughters, Carla Schwab and Penny Mosier, both of Augusta, Sherry LePlaunt of Indiana, Ellen Love of Howard; brother, Bernard Ewald of Forsyth, Mo.; 32 grandchildren, 26 great-grandchildren, and six step-great-grandchildren. The Dunsford Funeral Home of Augusta is in charge of arrangements.

HAROLD P FINKLER

The Augusta Daily Gazette, Monday, Jan. 6, 1936, front page.

SATURDAY CRASH IS FATAL TO LOCAL MAN
HAROLD P. FINKLER, 33, of Augusta, was killed and two women, Lois Allen and Irene Hoskinson both of Wichita, were badly injured Saturday night about 7 o’clock when a light coupe in which all three were riding crashed into a heavy truck trailer on highway 54 about one quarter mile east of Brae Burn Inn which is located about eight miles east of Wichita.

The trailer was loaded with coal and was attached to a truck driven by Roland A. Munsell, of Sedgwick. Coroner G.C. Davis and Deputy Sheriffs Fishback and Duncan, of Wichita, said the heavy truck and trailer had been brought to a halt on the pavement, headed west. Munsell said that he was walking to the rear of the trailer to start the rear lights burning, as it was getting dark. The coupe, belonging to Mrs. Hoskinson, was going west at a high rate of speed when the accident occurred. She is thought to have been driving at the time of the accident.

KILLED ALMOST INSTANTLY.
The driver apparently saw the trailer when but a few yards away. She tried to swerve in time but the right side of the coupe caught the corner of the trailer. So heavy was the load of coal that the trailer moved but little. The entire right side of the coupe was bashed in and the top was torn away or smashed to a mass of wreckage.

The coupe spun around and came to a halt in the ditch, headed north. Suffering from head injuries described by the coroner as terrible, Finkler was lifted from the wreckage. A Downing ambulance, from Wichita rushed to the scene. It was thought that life could be observed in Finkler and he was rushed to Wesley hospital with the women. Physicians declared Finkler dead. The officers said that Finkler was sitting in the coupe in such a position that he caught the full force of the blow.

EMPLOYED BY WHITE EAGLE.
HAROLD FINKLER was born June 29, 1902, at Prairie Depot, O. He came to Augusta with his parents 18 years ago from Casey, Ill. He was a graduate of Tri-State college at Anagola, Ind., where he completed a four year engineering course. For the past five years he has been employed at the White Eagle refinery here.

He is survived by his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Nick Finkler; four sisters, Mrs. Ralph Coats, Augusta; Mrs. Floyd Butcher, Gridley, Kans.; Mrs. William Ernhart, Osage, Okla., and Katie Finkler, Augusta; two brothers; Frank Finkler, Augusta, and Pete Finkler, Madison, Kans. Another brother, John, was drowned in Dry Creek nine years ago last July.

Funeral services will be at 10 o’clock Tuesday morning at the St. James Catholic church with Rev. M. Gorges in charge. Burial will be in the Catholic cemetery. The body will lie in state at the Dunsford Funeral Home today. The casket will not be open at the church. Paul bearers will be Paul Harness, Edward Warren, Byron Parrish, Ernest Nelson, O.O. Harris and Harry Guest.

JACK GRANTHAM

The Augusta Daily Gazette

JACK GRANTHAM, 75, died Sunday, April 30, 2000.
His funeral will be 10 a.m. Wednesday, May 3, at St. James Catholic church. Burial will be in Calvary cemetery. A rosary will be said at St. James Catholic Church at 7 p.m. tonight. He was born April 24, 1904 in Kim, Colo., as the son of Daniel and Grace Jordan Grantham. During World War II, he trained war dogs with the U.S. Marine Corps. He and Kathryn Maloney were united in marriage in Wichita on June 16, 1948. He was an entrepreneur in tax and public accounting in the Wichita area for more than 25 years. He was an ardent and accomplished golfer. His other interests included flying, fishing, and gardening. Mr. Grantham was very proud of his wife and nine children and often told people he had a “metric ton of kids.”

This retired tool designer/tax accountant leaves his wife, Kathryn; sons, Daniel Grantham of Denver, Colo., Tony Grantham of Boston, Mass., Matt Grantham of Augusta, and Chris Grantham of Wichita; daughters, Frances Dix of Hoseshoe Bay, Texas, Margaret Carrell of Louisville, Ky., Terry Johnson of Wichita, Marty Magill of Peck, and Judy Miller of Leirlip, Ireland; sister, Minnie Jackson of California, 11 grandchildren, eight step-grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren. Memorials to the St. James Building Fund are suggested. The Dunsford Funeral Home of Augusta is in charge of arrangements.

AGNES CLARE HANNON

The Augusta Daily Gazette, Oct. 11, 1955, front page.

HANNON DEATH IS ANNOUNCED TODAY AGNES CLARE HANNON, 75, of El Dorado died there yesterday morning after a three-month illness. Kirby Funeral home is in charge of funeral arrangements. Miss Hannon was born August 4, 1880, on a farm southwest of Augusta. The youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Hannon, pioneer Butler county couple, she had lived her entire life in the county, and had lived in El Dorado since 1912.

Survivors include three nieces, Mrs. Phil McDonough, Mrs. L.M. Burns, and Mrs. D.O. McKinney, all of El Dorado; and three nephews, W.R. Mannion and Thomas P. Mannion Jr., both of El Dorado and Andrew P.Schneider of Augusta.

ROBERT MICHAEL HERBERS

The Augusta Daily Gazette, Friday, Jan. 6, 1950, front page.

SERVICES FOR INFANT
Funeral services will be held Monday, January 9, at 9:30 a.m. in St. James Catholic church for Robert Michael Herbers, aged five months, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Herbers. The baby died Thursday afternoon in Wichita hospital. In addition to his parents, two brothers, Lawrence, seven, and Donald, three, survive, also his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Herbers and Mr. and Mrs. Tony Frischenmeyer of Mulvane.

JACQUELINE HOEFGEN

The Augusta Daily Gazette, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 1986

An Augusta High School varsity cheerleader is dead and two other teenagers were clinging to life today after two vehicles collided northeast of Augusta yesterday. Fifteen-year-old Jacqueline Hoefgen was dead at the scene, according to Butler County sheriff Dave Williams. Two other teenagers, Kristina Payne of Augusta and Bradley Link of El Dorado, both 16, were listed in critical condition this morning at the Wesley Medical Center in Wichita, according to a Wesley spokeswoman. Both were patients in surgical intensive care today.

Hoefgen and Payne were passengers in a small car driven by 16-year-old Paige Wilson of Augusta, according to authorities. Payne and Wilson are also members of the varsity cheerleading squad at the high school here. The fatal accident had many fellow students here and in Leon in a state of shock today. The accident occurred about 4:30 p.m. 1 ½ miles northeast of Augusta on a county road. The sheriff said the southbound car was struck broadside at an unmarked intersection about a mile east of Ohio Street by a van driven by Dwane P. Spies, 15, of Leon. Link and Mike Schill, 17, of Leon, were passengers in Spies’ east-bound vehicle. Link was pinned under the van and Payne was thrown between 30 to 40 feet from the car, according to the sheriff. Payne was taken from the scene by a Life Watch helicopter. Augusta Medical Complex director of nursing Pat Pierce said Link was stabilized at AMCI before he was transported by a Life Watch helicopter to Wesley. Pierce said Spies and Schill were treated at AMCI and released. Wilson was admitted for observation.

The three boys are students at Bluestem High School in Leon. Rosa Lee Cox, BHS secretary, said the boys were visiting Matt Craft of Augusta. Craft is also a student at Bluestem. The boys were coming back to Leon when the accident occurred, according to Cox. Link and Spies are football players. They were scheduled to leave at 5 p.m. on the school bus for a football game at West Elk in Howard. Originally that game was scheduled for last Friday but rains and poor field conditions forced school officials to schedule the game for Monday, according to Cox. Armand Hillier, AHS assistant principal, said he thought the three cheerleaders had gone to see a friend and were returning to Augusta to attend the Augusta Invitational Cross Country meet. Hillier reports parents of some students called today to say their children would not be in school because of the accident. Other AHS students have gone home, he said. “They are having a hard time dealing with this,” Hillier said, “Some are individually seeing the counselor and others are talking with teachers.” BHS counselor Brad Young said students and the town have been deeply affected by this and other accidents this summer. “One girl who should have been a junior was seriously hurt when she was riding a moped this summer. She still has not fully recovered. We had a young man who graduated a couple of years ago who was killed when a train struck his car. Then we had that accident a couple of weeks ago when Loren Bevan was killed. One of the girls in that accident was a former BHS student. It all has a cumulative effect on the kids. You hope it’s going to end. I just hope it stops.”

A FUNERAL MASS
The funeral mass for Hoefgen will be at 2:15 p.m. Thursday in the Augusta High School auditorium. Father Thomas Stroot of St. James Catholic church will officiate and burial will be in Calvary Cemetery. The rosary will be said at 7 p.m. tomorrow at St. James Church. The AHS sophomore was born May 27, 1971 in Wichita to John and Donna DeFore Hoefgen. She was a member of St. James Catholic Church. In addition to her parents, she leaves a brother, Nick and a sister, Jenny of the home; grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Hoefgen and Myrtle DeFore, and great-grandmother, Anna DeWeese, all of Augusta. A sister, Barbara Ann, preceded her in death in 1967. A memorial to Cheerleader Scholarship Fund for Further Education has been established with the Citadel Bank of Augusta.

HERMAN A. FISCHER

The Augusta Daily Gazette, Tuesday, Mar. 31, 1936, front page.

HERMAN A. FISCHER DIES SUDDENLY THIS MORNING
HERMAN A. FISCHER, 54, died suddenly at him home at 4 o’clock this morning from a heart attack. He worked yesterday at his chair at the Brown barber shop and seemed all right when he left the shop last evening. He has been suffering for some time but thought that he had stomach trouble. His physician said today that he had been suffering from angina pectoris, a serious heart ailment. He had been at the Brown barber shop for 22 years.

He was born at Tipton, Mo., March 28, 1882. He was a member of the Catholic church. He served an enlistment in the U.S. Navy as soon as he was old enough to enlist and had visited many parts of the world as a sailor. He is survived by his wife and five children, three daughters, Marjorie, Helen and Elizabeth; and two sons, John and Edward; two sisters, Mrs. Lewis Eckly, California, Mo., and Mrs. Bertha Miller, Tipton, Mo.; and one brother, Dr. E.J. Fischer, Tipton, Mo. Funeral arrangements were not completed at noon today. They will be announced in The Gazette tomorrow. Dunsford’s have charge of the arrangements. The Augusta Daily Gazette, Wednesday, Apr. 1, 1936, front page.
Funeral services for Herman A. Fischer will be held tomorrow morning at 10 o’clock at the St. James Catholic church. Pall bearers will be W.B. Jones, Lisle Carr, Ed Will, Roy Mercer, Dick Clawson and Charles Rawlings.

MICHAEL GALLEGOS

The Augusta Daily Gazette, Thursday, Dec. 7, 1933, front page.

Funeral services were held this morning at the Catholic church for Michael Gallegos, who died Tuesday in the Santa Fe hospital at Mulvane.

DANIEL ARTHUR JOHNSTON

The Augusta Daily Gazette, Monday, July 15, 1991

DANIEL ARTHUR JOHNSON, 31, Wichita, died Saturday, July 13, at HCA Wesley Medical Center, Wichita. He is the son of Sonny and Madeline Johnston of Augusta. A rosary will be recited at 7 p.m. tonight at Dunsford Funeral Chapel. The funeral will begin at 10 a.m. Tuesday, July 16, at St. James Catholic Church, Augusta, with Father James Billinger officiating. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery, rural Augusta.
Johnston was born Aug. 5, 1959 in El Dorado to Madeline Seibel and Sonny Johnston. Other survivors include brothers, Michael, Gary, Ronald, all of Wichita, Donald of Olathe, Paul of Bartlesville, Okla.; sisters, Wendy Ann Scott of Edmond, Okla., Mary McElroy of Goddard. A memorial has been established with St. James Catholic Church.