Obituaries in Kansas Newspapers (arranged by city)
Richard Moorhead
Richard F. Moorhead, 88, of Sabetha, Kansas, died late Thursday, February 15, at the Sabetha Manor in Sabetha. He had been a resident there since January 4, 2001.
He was born August 18, 1912, in Sabetha, the son of Jay and Rose Zurcher Moorhead. He attended school in Sabetha, spent one year at Kemper Military Academy, and graduated from Sabetha High School in 1930.
Mr. Moorhead was a farmer and a stockman. He married
Lucille E. Ulmer at Bern, Kansas on August 18, 1940. He and his wife operated operated a dairy on the family farm south of Sabetha. She died April 14, 1993. He retired in 1996 and moved into the Sabetha High Rise Apartments in Sabetha.
He was also preceded in death by an infant daughter, Jane Elizabeth Moorhead.
He and his wife had enjoyed traveling to see their family. He liked to read, do crossword puzzles, watch golf on TV, and visit with people about the old times.
Survivors are three sons, Richard Moorhead of Salt Lake City, Utah, Jay Andrew Moorhead of Carson City, Nevada, Michael Moorhead of Topeka, Kansas; two daughters, Rose Ann Magee of Sabetha, Nancy Hansen of Fountain, Colorado; a brother, Cedric Moorhead of East Hampton, New York; seven grandchildren.
Funeral services will be 10 A.M. Monday at the Lauer Funeral Home in Seneca where he will lie in state after 8:30 A.M. Sunday. The burial will be in the Sabetha Cemetery.
Memorials may be given for the Albany Museum, Sabetha, KS 66534, or sent in care of the family.
Katherine M. Morrison
Katherine M. Morrison, age 79, of Seneca, died Wednesday, September 13, 2000, at the Nemaha Valley Community Hospital in Seneca. She was transferred there from Country View Estates where she had been a resident since June of 1996. She was a diabetic and her death was due to an apparent heart attack.
She was born March 10, 1921 in Seneca, the daughter of Jacob and Minnie Von Mensell Krotzinger. When she was a child, the family moved to Marysville and she attended Marysville schools and was graduated from Marysville High School in 1940. Katherine worked for her father in the Krotzinger Bakery in Seneca and continued to work there after her brother, Jacob Krotzinger, purchased the business. She later moved to St. Joseph, Missouri, where she worked as a nurse's aide at Sister's Hospital and was employed as a waitress in several restaurants. She also took care of elderly people in their homes for several years.
On March 12, 1995, there was a fire in her apartment building and she and several other tenants lost everything. She moved back to Seneca and lived with her sister-in-law, Eva Krotzinger. Katherine moved into Terrace Heights Apartments in Seneca where she lived until her health made nursing home care necessary.
Survivors include her sister-in-law, Eva Krotzinger of Seneca and several nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents; three brothers, Donald, Francis and Jacob Krotzinger; and two sisters, Norma Krotzinger and Dorothy Worley.
Graveside services will be 2 P.M. Monday, September 18, at the Seneca City Cemetery, followed by inurnment.
Memorial contributions may be given for the Country View Estates Activity Fund and sent in care of the family.
Lauer Funeral Home in Seneca is in charge of arrangements.
Marie Mueting
Marie Mueting, 98, of Seneca, Kansas, died Saturday evening, December 27, 2008, at Crestview Manor care home in Seneca.
Marie was born on December 3, 1910 on a farm east of Axtell, the daughter of Joseph and Helena Engelken Buessing. She graduated from 8th grade at Sacred Heart School in Baileyville. As a young woman she assisted area housewives with newborns.
On August 12, 1936 she married
Leo Mueting at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Baileyville. The couple made their home on a farm south of Seneca, where they raised their 10 children. They moved to Walsenburg, Colorado in 1969 due to her husband’s health; he died in Norton, Kansas in 1971. Marie then returned to Seneca.
She worked for the Nemaha Valley Community Hospital in the dietary department until she retired in 1981. She also cared for her father for five years until his death in 1979. During her retirement she helped serve funeral lunches, and made many quilts. She enjoyed playing cards, cooking and doing embroidery work.
She was a member of Sts. Peter & Paul Catholic Church and St. Ann’s Altar Society at the church in Seneca, as well as LCBA Club and Merry Makers.
She is survived by her son Tom and his wife Audrey Mueting of Seneca; eight daughters, Mary Lee and Leo Beckman of Salina, Sr. Denise Mueting, OP of Wheat Ridge, Colorado, Elaine and husband Boyd Brown of Manhattan, Kansas, Janet and husband Lester Fangman of Seneca, Gladys and husband John H. Rottinghaus of Seneca, Pat and husband Bob Claas of Seneca, Sr. Helen Mueting, OSB of Harlan, Iowa, and Rita and husband Ron Potter of Warkarous, Kansas; a daughter-in-law, Darla of Dodge City; her brother Joe Buessing of Seneca; two sisters, Hermina Shalsky of Dodge City and Noreen Ronnebaum of Independence, Iowa; 32 grandchildren; 63 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild.
Besides her husband, she was preceded in death by a son Richard, an infant sister Helen, and brothers, John, Paul, Vincent, Bernard, and Louis Buessing.
Mass of Christian Burial will be 10 AM Tuesday, December 30, at Sts. Peter & Paul Catholic Church in Seneca. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Rosaries will be prayed at 2 & 7 PM Monday at Lauer Funeral Home in Seneca.
Memorial contributions may be given in Marie's memory for the Sts. Peter & Paul Building Fund or NVCH Healthcare Building Campaign, and sent in care of the family.
G. Everett Murphy
G. Everett Murphy, 81, of Seneca, Kansas, died Wednesday, May 30, 2001, at Crestview Manor in Seneca. He had been a resident there since April of 1997. He suffered a severe stroke in July of 1996.
He was born December 21, 1919, on a farm northwest of Detroit, Kansas, the son of Walter A. and Ada E. Wilsey Murphy. Everett grew up on the farm and attended rural schools. In 1937 he graduated from Chapman High School. He attended Kansas State Agricultural College a year on a Sears & Roebuck scholarship. Before entering the US Army in February of 1942, he worked in the USDA offices in Dickinson County. After serving in Europe, he was discharged in October of 1945. He returned to Abilene and worked at the Soil Conservation Service and then returned to college. After graduating from Kansas State College in 1950, he came to Seneca for three months training in soil conservation. He became the soil conservationist for Nemaha County, after Robert Yunghans was called into the service. He served and did an outstanding job until he retired in 1975.
Everett also farmed in the area. He worked part time on the Delaware Water Shed project at Holton, Kansas, at the conservation office. He was elected as a Nemaha County Commissioner in 1976, and served two terms.
On September 5, 1948, he married
Dorothy Pearl Cooley at Abilene. She survives of the home in Seneca.
He was a member of the First Congregational United Church of Christ where he was a trustee, moderator, and sang in the choir; the Earle W. Taylor Post #21 of the American Legion; the Seneca Lodge #39 AF & AM, where he had served as master; the Nemaha Chapter #32 of the Royal Arch Masons, and the Seneca Commandry #41 all at Seneca. He was also a member of the Order of the Eastern Star #164 at Marysville where he had served as worthy patron, and the National Association of Retired Federal Employees. For many years he was involved with 4H clubs.
Survivors besides his wife, Dorothy Pearl are four sons, Stanley Murphy of Seneca, George Murphy of Henderson, Nevada, Walter Murphy of Lawrence, Kansas, Phillip Murphy of Topeka, Kansas; three daughters, Donna Thoele of Topeka, Joyce Koch of Beattie, Kansas, Nelda Appell of Wichita; a brother, John Murphy of Hope, Kansas; 14 grandchildren, two step-grandchildren, three great-grandchildren, and five step-great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be 1:30 P.M. Sunday, June 3, at Lauer Funeral Home in Seneca. The burial will be with full military honors in the Seneca City Cemetery. The family will meet with friends from 6:30 to 8 P.M. Saturday at the funeral home where he will lie in state after 4 P.M. Friday. Masonic rites will be conducted by the Seneca Lodge.
Memorials may be given for the First Congregational United Church of Christ, the Seneca Lodge, or Crestview Manor and sent in care of the family.
William R. "Bill" Murphy
William R. “Bill” Murphy, 88, Seneca, KS, died Sunday morning, December 25, 2005, at Life Care Center in Seneca.
He was born September 14, 1917, at Seneca, the son of Glenn F. and Irma B. Bruner Murphy. He grew up in Seneca, attended Seneca Public Schools, and graduated from high school in 1935. While he was in school, Bill worked at the Jermane Music House and later at Jenkins Market and Tate’s Grocery Store, where he learned meat cutting. Following graduation he attended Gem City Business College in Quincy, Illinois.
In 1939 he began employment as an auditor for the Social Security Department and in 1940 for the U.S. Naval Department. On August 31, 1942, he enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps where he served with the 1st Marine Air Wing in the Asian-Pacific Theater and participated in the consolidation of the northern Solomons and the occupation of northern China. He was also stationed in the United States and discharged after six years in the Marines as a Technical Sergeant and a Paymaster.
On January 1, 1941, he married
Dorothy F. Young in Washington D.C. They lived there and also at Camp Lejune, NC. After his discharge in the fall of 1948, they returned to Seneca. His wife, Dorothy, died March 15, 1988. He moved to the Terrace Heights Apartments in 1991.
Bill was employed as a route salesman for Schulze and Birch Co., in sales for Banker’s Life, as a meat cutter with Louis Slocum at Jenkins Market, and cut meat at Farrell’s IGA for 13 years. He operated the meat department at A & P Store for 8 years until it closed. He worked as a meat cutter for several other businesses including Heideman Locker, Seneca Meat & Processing, and Ray’s IGA all in Seneca before he retired in May of 1994.
He was a member of the First Congregational Church where he sang in the church choir many years, the Seneca Lodge #39 AF & AM, the Earle W. Taylor Post #21 of the American Legion, and the Seneca Memorial Post #7458 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, all in Seneca. He was a former member of the Seneca Lion’s Club and of the Seneca Barber Shop Choir.
Survivors are three sons, Michael Murphy, Littleton, CO, Dennis Murphy, Seneca, Tim Murphy, Kansas City, KS; five grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.
Besides his wife, Dorothy, he was preceded in death by a brother, Max Murphy, August 25, 1960 and a sister Mary B. Murphy, March 2, 2000.
Funeral services will be 11 A.M. Wednesday at the First Congregational Church in Seneca. The family will meet with friends at the church for an hour preceding the services. The burial will be with military honors in the Seneca City Cemetery. He will lie in state at the Lauer Funeral Home after noon on Tuesday.
Memorial contributions may be given to the church or to the Nemaha County Training Center and sent in care of the family.
Larry L. Nash
Larry L. Nash, 60, of Topeka, formerly of Axtell, died late afternoon Saturday, December 30, 2006, shortly after arrival to the Nemaha Valley Community Hospital.
He was born June 29, 1946 in Topeka, the son of William Thomas and Ruth Louise Peavler Nash. When he was 13 years old the family moved to Mayetta. He graduated in 1964 from the Mayetta School. After graduation, he joined the Navy and shortly after entering, was medically discharged. He returned to the Topeka area and worked briefly for the railroad before becoming a prison guard at Rollins, WY. He later moved back to Kansas and worked in Hiawatha for Flairfold making shutters and for Wilde Tool Company. He also worked for Nemaha County area farmers, driving trucks during harvest, until he retired for health reasons. In 1998 due to his declining health, he went to live with his mother and later his brother in Topeka, to be closer to his doctor.
Survivors are his mother, Ruth Hamilton of Atlanta, TX; three daughters, Michelle Nash, of Axtell, Denise McGinnis, of Seneca, and Kathy Hamilton, of Atlanta, TX; two brothers, William T. Nash and Ivan Hamilton, of Silver Lake; two sisters, Connie Martin, of Holton and Linda Brownlow, of Mayetta; and eight grandchildren. A life-long friend and companion, Louise Kaster, of Axtell, also survives him.
His father, William T. Nash Sr., and his stepfather, Luther Ivan Hamilton, preceded him in death.
The family will later designate a later time for the memorial service, and inurnment will be in the Seneca City Cemetery.
Memorial beneficiary will be selected later, and may be sent in care of the family.
John O. Nebgen
John O. Nebgen, 93, of Bern, Kansas, died December 15, 2002, at the Sabetha Hospital. He was transferred there from the Apostolic Christian Home in Sabetha where he had been a resident since 1999.
He was born October 22, 1909, north of Sweet Springs, Missouri, one of seven children of William F. and Clara Mueller Nebgen. On the day of his birth, his parents were holding a public sale in preparation for a move to Oklahoma where the last of the Indian Territory had been opened to settlement. The family settled on a farm near Pryor, Oklahoma, but due to primitive living conditions and because survival was hard, they returned to Missouri in 1918. They lived southwest of Oak Grove, Missouri in the Wide-A-Wake neighborhood. John graduated from Oak Grove High School in 1927, and in 1932 he received a bachelor's degree in social science from William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri. During college he was involved in the editing the college yearbook. After teaching for a few years, in 1937 he moved to Bern, Kansas to work on the Bern Gazette as a writer, printer, and publisher.
On June 20, 1938, he married
Marjorie Wittwer in Savannah, Missouri. They lived in Sedan for a year before they returned to Bern to publish the Bern Gazette. John later began work as an agent for Standard Oil. He was drafted in early 1943 into the US Army and sent in early 1944 to England as a medic with the 96th General Hospital Unit. He was discharged in 1945. In 1950 he joined the Bern Oil Company as a partner until his retirement in 1971. His wife, Marjorie, preceded him in death on April 27, 1997.
He was a member of the United Methodist Church at Bern where he had served as treasurer and a trustee, the Charles F. Fankhauser Post #326 of the American Legion, and the Knights of Pythias. He also served on the city council for two terms, mayor of Bern for two terms, and on the school board of the Bern Elementary School for several years.
Survivors are a son, John T. "Tom" Nebgen of Rome, Illinois; two daughters Palle Rilinger of Kansas City, Missouri and Patricia Swayne, of Dayton, Ohio; seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Memorial services will be 1:30 pm Monday, December 23, 2002, at the United Methodist Church at Bern. Inurnment will be at the Bern Cemetery, Bern, Kansas.
Memorials may be given for the United Methodist Church, Bern, Kansas 66408.
