Obituaries
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Emporia resident Henry âHankâ 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 Godâs 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)
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 masterâs 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)
The body of Mrs. Daniel Volz, of Reading,
who died at Parsons, Wednesday, was taken to Reading Thursday. The funeral as held there Friday afternoon. Interment
was made in the Reading cemetery.
(Emporia Weekly Gazette ~ January 25, 1906)