Name: Fritzemeier, Walter Duane
Burial Date: 2009, 08/04
Age at Death: 77
Plot Location: 1155 F
Notes: husband of Violet Glee (Henry)

Birth: Jul. 4, 1932 Liberal Seward County Kansas, USA Death: Jul. 30, 2009 Sterling Rice County Kansas, USA STERLING — W. Duane Fritzemeier, 77, died July 30 at Presbyterian Manor, Sterling. He was born July 4, 1932, at Liberal, the son of Walter Simon and Nellie Pearl Rose Fritzemeier. He was a 1950 graduate of Stafford High School and attended Sterling College. He married V. Glee Henry on June 5, 1953, at Zenith. A resident of Sterling since 1953, formerly of Stafford, he was a mechanic, machinist and welder, in addition to church custodian and Hutchinson News paper carrier. Mr. Fritzemeier was a member of Sterling United Presbyterian Church; Air Patrol; Boy Scouts of America leader of Troop 369; Gideon International; Rice County Emergency Medical Service volunteer and a volunteer for the Sterling Fire Department for 40 years; and a former member of Calvary Baptist Church, Stafford. Survivors include his wife, of the home; three sons, David, Independence, Douglas, Wichita, and Daniel, Chanute; two daughters, Gay Fritzemeier, Dana, N.C., and Joy Oden, Stafford; a brother, Ronald Fritzemeier, Modesto, Calif.; three sisters, Marilyn Piland, Springfield, Ill., Glenda Deacon, Rancho Cordova, Calif., and Sheryl Fenstad, Anaheim, Calif.; nine grandchildren, three step-grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by a grandson, Matthew Fritzemeier. Funeral service will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at the church in Sterling with the Rev. Seth Svaty officiating. Burial will be at Sterling Community Cemetery. Visitation will be from 2 to 7 p.m. Monday at Birzer Funeral Home in Sterling, with family present from 5 to 7 p.m. Memorials are suggested to Gideons International, Sterling College or Boy Scouts of America Troop 369. Funeral arrangements provided by Birzer Funeral Home 203 N. 7th; P.O. Box 262 Sterling, KS 67579 (620) 278-3531 Great Bend (Kan.) Tribune, Aug. 2, 2009Family links: Parents: Walter Simon Fritzemeier (1906 – 1988) Nellie Pearl Rose Fritzemeier (1919 – 2004) Burial: Sterling Cemetery Sterling Rice County Kansas, USA Created by: Tim Hawkins Record added: Aug 04, 2009 Find A Grave Memorial# 40274085