Lincoln County Obituaries

OBITUARIES FOR LINCOLN COUNTY, KANSAS

BRADSHAW, EDWARD J.

Edward Joseph Bradshaw, 77, passed away Friday, Dec. 16, at Hayward, Calif., after a five-month illness. He was a former resident of Lincoln where he was in the newspaper business for several years.

Among the survivors are two daughters, Mrs. John (Cleo) Raffety, Jackson, Miss., and Juanita, California; one sister, Mrs. Helen Vetter of Kansas City, Mo., and several relatives in the Topeka area.

Graveside funeral services were conducted at the St. Patrick's Catholic cemetery, Lincoln, Friday, Dec. 23, the Rev. Norman Leiker in charge.

[Tombstone gives year of birth as 1890 but has never been completed; year of death has not been filled in.] (Lincoln Sentinel - Republican, January 5, 1967, Submitted by Alberto Nunez)

BRADSHAW, MYRTLE

Word reached here Tuesday morning of the death of Mrs. E.J. Bradshaw, who passed away Monday night [April 26] at the Halstead hospital where she had been taken Sunday for treatment. Although she had been in failing health for several months and had been at the Halstead hospital for a major operation some time ago, Mrs. Bradshaw had improved and only recently had been able to walk about her yard. However, her condition became alarming last week and on Saturday arrangements were made to take her to the hospital again. Her daughter, Mrs. John Raffety, and Mr. Raffety, Wichita, took her to the hospital Sunday and while enroute to Halstead she became critically ill, growing weaker until the end.

A resident of Kansas all her life, Mrs. Bradshaw had lived in Lincoln for 25 years, coming here from Topeka. At the time of her death she was aged 48 years. Surviving are her husband, E.J. Bradshaw of the home, and two daughters, Mrs. Cleo Raffety, Wichita; Mrs. J.J. Bono, Los Angeles; and three grandchildren.

Funeral services are to be held Thursday from St. Patrick's Catholic church. Interment will be made in the St. Patrick's cemetery south of Lincoln. [Tombstone gives year of birth as 1895.] (Lincoln Sentinel - Republican, April 29, 1943, submitted by Alberto Nunez)

MICHELS, ESTELLA

Funeral services for Mrs. Estella Michels, 87, will be held at the Methodist church here Sunday. Services will be conducted by the Rev. Burton Lovelady. Mrs. Michels died in Clayton at the home of a daughter, Mrs. W.P. Hendrickson. She was born Sept. 24, 1863 at Wayne County IL, the daughter of Archie and Mary Ann Copeland Melrose. She was married to Albert Michels in 1882. Nine years later they moved to Lincoln, where Mr. Michels died in 1932. She was amember of the Methodist church here. Survived are two daughters and one son - Mrs. Hendrickson, Mrs. Mina Lee Hughes, Kansas City MO; Charles William Michels, Beloit. Ten grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren also survive. (The Salina Journal, Kansas, February 11, 1951, submitted by Christine Walters)