Name: Wurst, Graydon Layfield
Burial Date: 2002, 09/23
Age at Death: 88
Plot Location: 824 G
Notes: husband of Agnes’Aggie’(Downey)Wurst

S SGT US Army,      War-WW2  

Obituary – Sterling Kansas Bulletin

Graydon Layfield Wurst

Sterling – Graydon Layfield Wurst, 88, died Sept. 20, 2002, at his home in Sterling.

He was born Nov. 21, 1913, at Abbyville, the son of William and Della Miller Wurst. He was a lifetime resident of Sterling, where he graduated from High School and worked as a carpenter.

He belonged to St. Paul Catholic Church, Lyons, and the American Legion, Sterling.

He served in the U.S. Army during World War II in the European Theater.

On Nov. 25, 1948, he married Agnes Downey at La Junta, Colo. She survives.

Other Survivors include three sons; two sisters; and nine grandchildren. He was preceded in death by a sister, Donna Cundith.

Funeral will be at 10 a.m. Monday at St. Paul Catholic Church, Lyons, with Father Colin Boor presiding. Visitation will be from 2 to 6 p.m. today with rosary afterward, at Sillin Funeral Home, Sterling. Burial will be in Sterling Community Cemetery.

Memorials may be sent to Sterling Public Library, in care of the funeral home.

 

Birth:	Nov. 21, 1913 Abbyville Reno County Kansas, USA
Death:	Sep. 20, 2002 Sterling Rice County Kansas, USA
Son of William and Della Miller Wurst.Look for the full obituary published in The Garden City Telegram in the Genealogy Room of The Finney County Public Library in Garden City, Kansas.Family links: Spouse: Agnes Downey Wurst (1923 – 2005)**Calculated relationship
Burial: Sterling Cemetery Sterling Rice County Kansas, USA
Created by: scrap Record added: Oct 31, 2004 Find A Grave Memorial# 9735008