Obituaries
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VAHSHOLTZ, HENRY "HANK"
Emporia resident Henry “Hank”
Vahsholtz died Friday, Dec. 14, 2007, at Woodland Park, Colo. He
was 94.
Mr. Vahsholtz was a retired Kansas farmer and soil conservation
contractor. He lived in Emporia from 1966 to the present.
The son of Henry
L. and Lena C. Young Vahsholtz, he was born Aug. 29, 1913, at Herington. He
married Olga E. Rathke on April 9, 1939. She survives.
Mr. Vahsholtz is
survived by three sons, Gary Vahsholtz, Stan Vahsholtz and Steve Vahsholtz, all
of Woodland Park; one brother, Milton Vahsholtz of Emporia; a sister, Hattie
Rathke of Americus; and three grandchildren. Seven brothers and three sisters
died earlier.
The funeral will be at noon Saturday at Faith Lutheran Church
in Woodland Park. The family will meet friends from 11 a.m. to noon Saturday at
the church. Burial will be in God’s Acres Cemetery at Florissant,
Colo.
Memorial contributions may be sent to the Messiah Lutheran Church, 1101
Neosho St., Emporia, KS 66801.
(Emporia Gazette ~ Tuesday ~ 18 Dec
2007)
VISSER, BETTY
J.
Former Emporia
resident Betty J. Visser of Lawrence
died Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2007, at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. She was 56.
The daughter
of John and Virginia Schuyler Visser, she was born Aug. 17, 1951, at Holland,
Mich. She attended the University of Denver and the Chicago Art Institute. She
graduated from the University of Iowa School of Fine Arts and received a
master’s degree in library science from Emporia State
University.
She married
Anthony Kuhn on Dec. 27, 1971. They divorced in 1977. They had lived in Europe
and traveled for one year.
Ms. Visser
lived in New York City and worked at Cornell University. She returned to Kansas
in 1976 and lived in Emporia. She later moved to Kansas City and worked at the
Kansas University Medical Library. She moved to Lawrence in 1986 and was a past
recipient of the Volunteer of the Year award from the Lawrence Chamber of
Commerce.
She is
survived by her mother of Lawrence; three sisters, Mary Frances Visser of
Mankato, Minn., Nancy Visser of New York, N.Y., and Martha Visser of Jupiter,
Fla. Her father, former president of Emporia State University, died in
1997.
The service to
celebrate her life will be from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday at Babcock Place, 1700
Massachusetts St., in Lawrence. Ms. Visser donated her body to the University of
Kansas Medical Center.
Memorial
contributions may be sent to the Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center, 200
Maine St., Lawrence, KS 66044.
Rumsey-Yost
Funeral Home in Lawrence has the arrangements. (The Emporia Gazette ~ Thursday ~ 11
October 2007)