We hope you will join us this week for a program or meal.
Thursday, May 15, will feature Thursday Theatre at the Hillsboro Senior Center. We will show a 30-minute film “Cataracts at the Time of Diagnosis.” Men’s coffee will be Friday, May 16.
Gerald and Joyce Kessler of rural Lehigh will celebrate 50 years of marriage with a card shower and reception from 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. May 24 at the Parkview Mennonite Brethren Church activity center.
Gerald Kessler and Joyce Thiessen were married June 9, 1958, at Parkview Mennonite Brethren Church.
The reception is hosted by their children, Renay and Phil Neufeldt of Buhler, Lynn and Marie Kessler of Hillsboro and Melanie and Rick Reed of McPherson, and the couple’s eight grandchildren.
Clinton “Clint” Miller, 35, welder for Hillsboro Industries, died Sunday, May 4, south of Herington in a single-vehicle accident.
The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Thursday, May 8, at the Penwell-Gabel’s Herington Chapel with pastor Bill Peterson officiating. Burial will follow at Sunset Hill Cemetery, Herington.
He was born July 17, 1972, to Alfred C. and Gwen L. (Brunner) Miller in Herington.
He is survived by his mother of Herington, his father of Delavan; two brothers, Phillip and Justin, both of Hillsboro; a sister, Jennifer Miller of Herington; his maternal grandmother, Nellie Brunner of Herington and his paternal grandfather, Donald Miller of Arizona.
Visitation for friends was from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday,
Patricia Ann “Pat” Druse, 70, former purchasing agent at St. Luke’s Hospital in Marion, died May 6 at Midland’s Hospice House.
A graveside service is planned for 11 a.m. Monday, May 12, at the Marion Cemetery.
She was born Dec. 25, 1937, to Walter and Frieda (Childs) DeWitt in Wichita and graduated from Marion High School in 1955. On Oct. 16, 1955, she was married to Charles Robert “Bob” Druse, who predeceased her in 2001.
She is survived by a daughter, Anita Druse of Topeka; a son, Douglas of Melbourne, Fla.; three grandchildren and one great-granddaughter.
Memorials have been established with Eastmoor United Methodist Church, Marion, and Midland Hospice Care, Topeka. Contributions can be sent in care of Zeiner Funeral Home, P.O. Box 6, Marion, KS 66861.
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