Obituaries - January 2004 January 30, 2004 Selma Eubank-Smith ...

March 31, 2004
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Obituaries - March 2004
Memorial committal services for Larry Curtis, who died Jan. 1, 2001, and Susan Curtis, who died March 28, will be at 10 a.m.
Saturday at Peace Church Cemetery in Hudson with the Rev. Al Hatten officiating. Great Bend (Kan.) Tribune, March 31, 2004
March 30, 2004
Mildred Caroline Strecker McFall Neeley 1922-2004
HOISINGTON — Mildred Caroline Strecker McFall Neeley, 81, died March 27 at Central Kansas Medical Center. She was born
Oct. 22, 1922 at Russell, the daughter of Henry C. and Caroline O. ‘Keil’ Strecker. She was a 1940 graduate of Hoisington High
School and attended Fort Hays State University. A resident of Hoisington, coming from Denver, Colo., she taught school at
District 66 in Galatia for two years, worked at the Air Force Base in Great Bend, was a nurses aid at St. Rose Hospital, worked in
the civil service in Colorado and later became a telephone operator for Mountain Bell and Oregon Teleco until her retirement in
1987. She was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church of Great Bend. Survivors include three sons, Mark G. McFall of Riverside,
Calif., Miles McFall of Seattle, Wash., and Nathanael J. Neeley of Tyler, Texas; one brother, Paul H. Strecker of Galatia; one
granddaughter; and one great-granddaughter; and two stepgrandsons. She was preceded by an infant sister, Esther Irene
Strecker. Memorial service will be at 11 a.m. today at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Galatia with the Rev. James A. Strasen
officiating. Burial will be at Fairview Cemetery in Galatia. There is no visitation. Memorials are suggested to Trinity Lutheran
Church in care of Nicholson-Ricke Funeral Home in Hoisington. Funeral arrangements provided by Nicholson-Ricke Funeral
Home 415 N. Main Hoisington, KS 67544 620-653-4165 Great Bend (Kan.) Tribune, March 30, 2004
Susan G. Curtis 1932-2004
Susan G. Curtis, 71, of Great Bend, died March 28 at Central Kansas Medical Center in Great Bend. She was born May 6, 1932,
at Howard County, the daughter of McKean and Ruth Lord Carter. She married Larry Curtis April 23, 1955, at Tucumcari, N.M. He
died Jan. 1, 2001. A resident of Great Bend for 42 years, coming from Stafford she was a homemaker. Survivors include two
sons, Steven Curtis of Great Bend and David Curtis of Port Arthur, Texas; one brother, Bill Carter of Hays; and four
grandchildren. She was preceded in death by one brother, William Carter and one daughter, Peggy Fischer. Memorial service
and inurnment will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Peace Church Cemetery in Hudson with the Rev. Al Hatten officiating. Memorials
are suggested to Susan G. Curtis Memorial Fund in care of Charter Funerals in Great Bend. Funeral arrangements provided by
Charter Funerals 2115 Washington Great Bend, KS 67530 620-793-6161 Great Bend (Kan.) Tribune, March 30, 2004
Robert Jackson Bennett 1922-2004
MOLINE — Robert Jackson Bennett, passed away on Wednesday, March 24, at the Elk Manor Nursing Home in Moline. He was
81 years of age and a long time resident of the Moline community. Bob, as he was known, was born on Aug. 8, 1922, at Pleasant
View, Tenn., to Willy Ed and Pauline Mae Sanders Bennett. He attended school in Tennessee until entering the United Stated
Navy Jan. 19, 1942, and served in the Pacific theatre during World War II. On June 26, 1944, he married Isabelle Arlene Ward at
Ardmore, Okla., and to this union was born one son and three daughters. After being discharged from the Navy in 1947, Bob
began working as an auto body mechanic for the Gardner Body Shop at Moline. In 1962, he became a partner in the Bennett-
Gardner Body Shop and later became the sole owner of the business. Bob retired from the Bennett Body Shop in the mid-1980’s.
He was a long time member of the Moline United Methodist Church and is a 50 year member of the American Legion Ferguson-
Spease Post 388, Hope Masonic Lodge 155 and Ladonia Chapter 243 Order of the Eastern Star. He is survived by his wife,
Isbelle; one son, Robert Jr. of Howard; daughters, Sherry Kill of Moline and Rebecca Thetford of Great Bend; one brother,
Wesley of Mount Hope; one sister, Alma Jones of Ashland City, Tenn.; eight grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren. He was
preceded in death by his daughter, Gloria; two great-grandchildren; his parents; one brother and one sister. Memorial service will
be at 2 p.m.Wednesday at Moline United Methodist Church with the Revs. Gary Parsons and Gary Boles officiating. Cremation
has taken place. Military and Masonic graveside services will be at Moline Cemetery in Moline. Memorials have been established
with the Elk Manor Nursing Home and the Center for Basic Cancer Research at Kansas State University. Contributions may be
left with Zimmerman Funeral Home of Howard. Funeral arrangements provided by Zimmerman Funeral Home* P.O. Box 1233
Howard, KS 67349 620-374-2381 Great Bend (Kan.) Tribune, March 30, 2004
March 28, 2004
Marie Margaret Appel 1914-2004
Marie Margaret Appel, 89, of Great Bend, died March 25 at Woodhaven Care Center in Ellinwood. She was born March 26, 1914,