Welda, John T

Name: Welda, John T
Burial Date: 1891, 04/14
Age at Death: 77
Plot Location: 026 A
Notes: husband of Catherine B (Kimber)

Birth:	Apr. 5, 1814 Baden-Baden, Germany
Death:	Apr. 14, 1891 Sterling Rice County Kansas, USA
Obituary Reads…John Welda, one of Sterling’s oldest citizens, died at his home on Eighth Street, Tuesday morning after a long continued illness. His wife being also sick and unable to leave her bed the funeral was held at the residence on yesterday afternoon. The service, conducted by Rev. Woodward, were attended by a large number of sympathizing neighbors and friends. Father-in-law to Sarah H. (McMillen) Welda and Grandparents to Clarence Roy and Clara Belle Welda.Family links: Spouse: Catharine B. Kimber Welda (1818 – 1892) Children: Sarah Jane Welda Bielby (1851 – 1918)* Ella Viettie Bielby Durham (1871 – 1954)* *Calculated relationship

Burial: Sterling Cemetery Sterling Rice County Kansas, USA Plot: Lot 26 A
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Zwick, Johanna Dora (Meyer)

Name: Zwick, Johanna Dora (Meyer)
Burial Date: 1920, 01/09
Age at Death: 48
Plot Location: 102 C
Notes: Wife of Herman

Birth:	unknown
Death:	Jan., 1920
age 48, wife of Herman

Burial: Sterling Cemetery Sterling Rice County Kansas, USA Plot: 102 C
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Zwick, Herman

Name: Zwick, Herman
Burial Date: 1934, 02/06
Age at Death: 61
Plot Location: 102 E
Notes: husband of Johanna Dora(Meyer)

Death: 1934 age 61

Burial: Sterling Cemetery Sterling Rice County Kansas, USA Plot: 102 E
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Zwick, Emma Lena

Name: Zwick, Emma Lena
Burial Date: 1912, 04/11
Age at Death: 17 months
Plot Location: 102 A
Notes: Daughter of Herman & Johanna(Meyer)

Birth:	Nov. 6, 1910 Rice County Kansas, USA
Death:	Apr. 8, 1912 Rice County Kansas, USA
age 17 months Family links: Parents: Herman Zwick (____ – 1934) Johanna Dora Meyer Zwick (____ – 1920) Sibling: Harry Zwick (1903 – 1992)* Emma Lena Zwick (1910 – 1912) *Calculated relationship

Burial: Sterling Cemetery Sterling Rice County Kansas, USA Plot: 102 A
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Thode, Harry Frederick

Name: Thode , Harry Frederick
Burial Date: 1996, 12/30
Age at Death: 87
Plot Location: 934 C
Notes: Husband of Lela Merle (Darnell)

Birth:	Oct. 8, 1909
Death:	Dec. 6, 1996
Age 87Family links: Spouse: Lela Merle Darnell Thode (1911 – 1996)* Children: Wanda L. Thode Williams (1937 – ____)* *Calculated relationship

Burial: Sterling Cemetery Sterling Rice County Kansas, USA Plot: 934 C
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Taylor, Donald Ray

Name: Taylor, Donald Ray
Burial Date: 1996, 10/18
Age at Death: 61
Plot Location: 888 G
Notes: husband of Alpha Joyce (King)

Birth:	Apr. 26, 1935
Death:	Oct. 18, 1996
Husband of Alpha Joyce (King)Family links: Parents: Gilmer Lewis Taylor (1904 – 1961) Margaret Fern Ross Taylor (1911 – 2004) Sibling: Donald Ray Taylor (1935 – 1996) Deloris Jane Taylor (1938 – 1946)*Calculated relationship Half-sibling

Burial: Sterling Cemetery Sterling Rice County Kansas, USA Plot: 888 G
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Scott, Mary Margaret (Crawford)

Name: Scott, Mary Margaret (Crawford)
Burial Date: 1996, 12/21
Age at Death: 91
Plot Location: 674 A
Notes: Wife of Raymond Harold

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Birth: 1905 Death: Nov., 1996
age 91, wife of Raymond Harold
Burial:
Sterling Cemetery
Sterling
Rice County
Kansas, USA
Plot: 674 A
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Name	Janette Crawford
Age	25
Birth Year	abt 1895[abt 1895]
Birthplace	South Dakota
Home in 1920	Sterling, Rice, Kansas
Street	Fourth Street
Residence Date	1920
Race	White
Gender	Female
Relation to Head of House	Daughter
Marital Status	Single
Father’s Name	James I Crawford
Father’s Birthplace	Scotland
Mother’s Name	Emma Crawford
Mother’s Birthplace	Pennsylvania
Able to Speak English	Yes
Occupation	Teacher
Industry	Public School
Employment Field	Wage or Salary
Able to read	Yes
Able to Write	Yes
Neighbors

Raymond Harold Scott born in El Dorado, Butler County, Kansas May 26, 1903 died in Denver, Denver County, Colorado, October 21, 1972. Obituary indicates Raymond to be buried in Pleasant Ridge Cemetery, Plattsmouth, Nebraska.

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Daughter : Mary Ellen Meyer

January 2, 1934 – October 6, 2021

I see tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,

Sermons in stones, and good in everything. Shakespeare, As You Like It

Mary Ellen Meyer was born January 2, 1934 (or “1-2-3-4,” as she’d like to point out), in Sterling, Kansas. She was the second child of Raymond Harold Scott and Mary Margaret (Crawford).

Dillard, Reed Madelyn

Name: Dillard, Reed Madelyn
Burial Date: 2008, 04/04
Age at Death: IN
Plot Location: I-01 C/3
Notes: 1st daughter of Jack Vito & Kimberly Erin (Reed) Dillard

Reed Madelyn Dillard

Published: Tuesday, April 08, 2008

Reed Madelyn Dillard, of Sterling, Kan., was stillborn April 1, 2008, at the Hutchinson Hospital, in Hutchinson, Kan.

Survivors include: parents, Jack and Kim Reed Dillard; grandparents, Don and Linda Reed of Sterling, Jeff and Lisa Dillard of Lubbock; great-grandparents, Maurice and Margaret Reed of Sterling, Linda Spaugh of Lubbock, Chuck and Peggy Spaugh of Lubbock, and Janie Dillard of Lubbock; great-great-grandmother, Tess Pennington of Lubbock; two uncles and four aunts.

Graveside services were held at 1:30 p.m. on Friday at Sterling Community Cemetery, with the Rev. Bob McFarland officiating.

Memorials may be sent to Reformed Presbyterian Church, 421 N. 8th Street, Sterling, KS 67579.

Birth:	Apr. 1, 2008
Death:	Apr. 1, 2008
Infant daughter Jack Vito & Kimberly Erin (Reed)

Burial: Sterling Cemetery Sterling Rice County Kansas, USA Plot: I-01 C/3
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Duft, Willard Clyde

Name: Duft, Willard Clyde
Burial Date: 2008, 04/02
Age at Death: 91
Plot Location: 1214 H
Notes: husband of Betty Jean (Proffitt)/dh/ Marjorie E. (Hyatt)

US Army War: WW2

Birth:	Nov. 14, 1916
Death:	Mar. 30, 2008
Family links: Spouse: Betty Jean Proffitt Duft (1925 – 2000) Spouse: Marjorie E. (Hyatt) Duft Smith Inscription: MARRIED SEPT 26, 1946 TEC5 US ARMY WORLD WAR II

Burial: Sterling Cemetery Sterling Rice County Kansas, USA
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Leonard, Alice Virginia (Smith)

Name: Leonard, Alice Virginia (Smith)
Burial Date: 2008, 03/31
Age at Death: 90
Plot Location: 883 E
Notes: Wife of Edwin Stanley

Name:	Alice V. Leonard
Gender:	Female
Death Age:	90
Birth Date:	6 Jul 1917
Marriage Date:	20 Jan 1946
Residence Place:	Sterling
Death Date:	26 Mar 2008
Death Place:	Lyons
Obituary Date:	28 Mar 2008
Parents:	Frederick H. Smith; Virginia Smith (Brennan)
Spouse:	Edwin S. Leonard

Birth:	1917
Death:	Mar., 2008
age 90

Burial: Sterling Cemetery Sterling Rice County Kansas, USA Plot: 083 E
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Spencer, Junior Ray

Name: Spencer, Junior Ray
Burial Date: 2008, 03/10
Age at Death: 63
Plot Location: 1256 B
Notes: husband of Sharon Kay (Elstun)

Birth:	Mar. 30, 1944 Wentworth Newton County Missouri, USA
Death:	Mar. 7, 2008 Lyons Rice County Kansas, USA
Junior R. Spencer LYONS – Junior Ray Spencer, 63, died March 7, 2008, at his home in Lyons. He was born March 30, 1944, in Wentworth, Mo., the son of Fredrick Jr and Roxie Blackson Spencer. A longtime resident of Rice County, he was a retired grain elevator laborer, having worked for Collingwood Grain/ADM, Little River. On May 20, 1966, he married Sharon Kay Elstun in Sterling. She died Sept. 4, 2003. Survivors include two sons, Phillip, Galva, and Mark, Little River; two daughters, Patty Newcomb, Lyons, and Terri Hayes, Geneseo; two brothers, Bob Enlow, Okinawa, Japan, and Don Green, Sterling; a sister, Joyce Moore, Alden; and 14 grandchildren. He was preceded in death by four brothers, Harlan Enlow, Ralph Enlow, Leonard Wood and Lester Wood(Enlow); and a sister, Pauline Dickey.Funeral will be at 11 a.m. Monday at Birzer-Sillin Funeral Home, Lyons, with Chaplain Scott Watford, presiding. Visitation will be from 8:30 a.m. until service time Monday at the funeral home. Burial will be in Sterling Community Cemetery, Sterling.Memorials may be sent to the Junior Ray Spencer Memorial Fund in care of the funeral home. Family links: Parents: Ted Spencer (1922 – 2006) Roxie Eugene Blackston Green (1909 – 1965) Siblings: Pauline Mary Enlow Dickey (1929 – 1978) Richard Harland Enlow (1931 – 1996) Ralph G. Enlow (1933 – 2007) Junior Ray Spencer (1944 – 2008) John Wesley Spencer (1952 – 1990) Calculated relationship *Half-sibling

Burial: Sterling Cemetery Sterling Rice County Kansas, USA
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McCreight, Jean L (Dunmire)

Name: McCreight, Jean L (Dunmire)
Burial Date: 1997, 12/12
Age at Death: 88
Plot Location: 786 B
Notes: Wife of Dwight H

Birth: Feb. 7, 1909 Death: Dec. 8, 1997
age 88

Family links:
Spouse:
Dwight H McCreight (1909 – 1980)*

*Calculated relationship
Burial:
Sterling Cemetery
Sterling
Rice County
Kansas, USA
Plot: 786 B
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Jean L Dunmire was born on February 7, 1909, in Sterling, Kansas. She married Dwight H McCreight on August 27, 1930. They had one child during their marriage. She died on December 8, 1997, in Hutchinson, Kansas, at the age of 88, and was buried in Sterling, Kansas.

Charter, Doris Vorine (Woleslagel)

Name: Charter, Doris Vorine (Woleslagel)
Burial Date: 2008, 02/25
Age at Death: 86
Plot Location: 148 H
Notes: wife of Vernon Claud Charter

Doris Vorine Woleslagel was born on February 1, 1922, in Sterling, Kansas. She married Vernon Claud Charter on November 6, 1952. They had two children during their marriage. She died on February 21, 2008, in her hometown, at the age of 86.

Birth: Feb. 1, 1922Death: Feb. 21, 2008

Family links:
Spouse:
Vernon Charter (1910 – 1992)

Inscription:
PARENTS OF DEBRA AND DEANNA
Burial:
Sterling Cemetery
Sterling
Rice County
Kansas, USA
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Capps, Paula Lea (Smith)

Name: Capps, Paula Lea (Smith)
Burial Date: 2008, 02/23
Age at Death: 59
Plot Location: 1068 A
Notes: 1st wife of LeRoy Lester, Sr.

Died in St. Joseph, MO

Paula L. Capps, 59, died Feb. 19, 2008, at Heartland Regional Medical Center, St. Joseph, Mo

She was born July 12, 1948, Hays, the daughter of Fred G., and Arlene T. Heldt Smith. She graduated from Sterling High School in 1966, attended Barton County Community College. She was a resident of St. Joseph, Mo., since 1991, formerly of Geneseo, Lyons and Hutchinson. She was a former employee of American Salt Co., Lyons.

She attended Fredrick Blvd Baptist Church, St. Joseph, Mo.

On Aug. 2, 1967, she married LeRoy Capps, Nevada, Texas. He survives.

Other survivors include: three sons, LeRoy Capps Jr., Lyons, John Thomas Capps, Tulsa, Okla., and David Capps, Wichita; a daughter, Tina Owens, El Paso, Texas; four brothers, Michael Smith, Robert Smith, Timothy Smith, all of South Hutchinson; Rodney Smith, Jonesboro, Ark.; four sisters, Geraline Elliott, Hutchinson, Linda Stover, Sterling, Connie Hess, Madison, and Cynthia Morales, South Hutchinson; and 13 grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by an infant brother, Dennis Smith; an infant grandson, Christopher James Capps.

Funeral will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Birzer-Sillin Funeral Home, Sterling, with Pastor Ken Conner presiding. Visitation will be from 2 to 5 p.m. Friday at the funeral home. Burial will be in Sterling Community Cemetery.

Memorials may be sent to: Paula Capps Memorial Fund, in care of the funeral home.

Paula Lea Smith (b. 12 Jul 1948)

Paula Lea Smith (daughter of Fred Gerald Smith and Arlene Thelma Heldt) was born 12 Jul 1948 in Hays, Ellis, Kansas.She married LeRoy Lester Capps, son of Lester Laird Capps and Euretha Fay McNett.
Children of Paula Lea Smith and LeRoy Lester Capps are:

David Alan Capps, b. 20 Jun 1970, Hutchinson, Reno, Kansas.
Tina Louise Capps, b. 16 Jul 1972, Hutchinson, Reno, Kansas.

Birth: Jul. 12, 1948

Death: Feb. 19, 2008
Burial:
Sterling Cemetery
Sterling
Rice County
Kansas, USA
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Gleason, Clara Jean (Wilson)

Name: Gleason, Clara Jean (Wilson)
Burial Date: 2008, 02/23
Age at Death: 84
Plot Location: 927 A
Notes: wife of Clair LaVane

Died Fredricksburg, TX

STERLING, KS

GLEASON Clara Jean Gleason – Age 84, went to be with the Lord on February 19, 2008 at Hill County Memorial Hospital, Fredericksburg, TX. She was born on September 19, 1923 in Enid, OK. She is the daughter of Oliver G. and Marion L. Wilson. She was a resident of Johnson City, TX for 15 years, formerly of San Antonio, TX and Sterling, KS. She was a retired business manager for Sterling College for 25 years. She graduated from Miltonvale High School in 1942 and attended Marion College, Marion, Indiana in 1943 and 1944. She was a member of United Presbyterian Church in Sterling and attended Liberty Lighthouse Fellowship in Johnson City, TX. She was preceded in death by her husband, Clair L. Gleason on June 29, 1986 and brother, Beverly Wilson. She is survived by daughters, Jeanette L. Johnson of Johnson City, TX and Dr. Marla J. Gleason Paslay of Bay Minette, AL; brothers, Charles R. Wilson of Brooksville, FL and John P. Wilson of San Diego, CA; sister, Eleanor M. Buckman of Johnson City, TX; 7 grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren and 1 great-great-grandchild. Funeral services will be on Saturday, February 23, 2008 at 2pm at United Presbyterian Church, Sterling with Rev. Seth Svaty officiating. Burial will be in the Sterling Community Cemetery. Visitation will be on Saturday from 9 am-12 Noon at Birzer- Sillin Funeral Home and from Noon until service time at the church. The casket will remained closed. Memorials can be made to Sterling College.

Published in Press-Register on Feb. 21, 2008.

Birth: Sep. 19, 1923

Death: Feb. 19, 2008
Age 84
Burial:
Sterling Cemetery
Sterling
Rice County
Kansas, USA
Plot: 927 A
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