Newby, Erma Lorene(Harper) wife of Diorus Jonathan ‘Dorie’
Burial Date: 2001, 09/01 Age: 91 Lot:952 A
Died in Stafford, KS
ERMA L. NEWBY OBITUARY
St. John – Erma L. Newby, 91, died Aug. 28, 2001, at Stafford District Hospital.
She was born April 4, 1910 at Sterling, the daughter of Frank and Leela Harper. She graduated from Sterling High School in 1929. A resident of Hutchinson for 58 years she was a homemaker before moving to St. John in 1998.
She belonged to the United Methodist Church, Hutchinson.
On April 15, 1933, She married D. J. Newby at Sterling. He died Nov. 10, 1976.
Survivors include: a son, Dee Jay, St. Charles, Ill.; a daughter Donita Hedrick, St. John; a brother, Delbert Harper, Sterling; a sister, Twila Proffitt, Alden; five grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by three brothers, LeRoy, Verlin and Virgil Harper.
Service will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Minnis Chapel, St. John, with the Rev. W. Harlan Rittgers presiding. Visitation will be from 1 to 8 p.m. Friday at the chapel.
Burial will be in Sterling Community Cemetery, Sterling.
Memorials may be sent to First United Methodist Church in St. John or Hutchinson.
Dee Jay Newby, 75, entered Heaven’s gates Sept. 20, 2015, surrounded by his family at Loyola University Center. Dee was born Dec. 23, 1939, in Sterling, to D.J. and Erma Harper Newby.
