Friday March 18, 2005
Arnold E. Goertz
BUHLER – Arnold E. Goertz, 80, died March 14, 2005, at Hutchinson Hospital, Hutchinson.
He was born June 9, 1924, in Reno County, the son of David P. and Helena C. Ediger Goertz. He attended Bethel College. He was a product designer for Hesston Corp. and also farmed.
He was a member of the Hoffnungsau Mennonite Church, the Mennonite Men’s Choir and the Wheat Heritage Engine Club and was a Sunday school teacher and a deacon.
On November 7, 1948, he married Genevieve Dirks at Buhler. She survives.
Other survivors include: a son, Robert, Buhler; two brothers, Wilbur, Hesston, and Ronald, Montgomery, Ala.; two sisters, Marieanna Siemens, Inman, and Loretta Zehr, Gridley, Ill.; and two grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by a daughter, Doris Goertz; a brother, Harold; and two grandchildren.
Funeral service will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday at Hoffnungsau Mennonite Church, with Pastor Willmar Harder presiding. Burial will be in Hoffnungsau Cemetery. Friends may call from 2 to 8 p.m. Thursday, with family receiving friends from 6 to 8 p.m. at Buhler Mortuary.
Memorials may be given to the Doris Goertz Scholarship fund or Leukemia Society, both in care of Buhler Mortuary.
Genevieve L. Goertz
BUHLER – Genevieve Lorraine Goertz, 80, died March 17, 2005, at Pleasant View Home, Inman.
She was born Sept. 9, 1924, at Hutchinson, the daughter of David T. and Sara Zielke Dirks. She attended Salt City Business College. She lived in Garden City, Newton and Buhler. She worked for Avon Products and Fuller Brush Corp. She also delivered the Hutchinson News for 15 years.
She belonged to Hoffnungsau Mennonite Church and the Happy Hour Sewing Circle.
On Nov. 7, 1948, she married Arnold Goertz at Buhler. He died March 14, 2005.
Survivors include: a son, Robert, Buhler; a brother, Edwin Dirks, Wichita; and two grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by a daughter, Doris Goertz; and two grandchildren.
Funeral service will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday, at Hoffnungsau Mennonite Church with Pastor Willmar Harder presiding. Burial will be in Hoffnungsau Cemetery. Friends may call from 2 to 8 p.m., with family receiving friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday, at Buhler Mortuary.
Memorials may be sent to the Doris Goertz Scholarship Fund, in care of the funeral home.
