Obituary;
John A. Waetzig
CARBONDALE- Graveside services will be a 11 a.m. Wednesday at Carbondale Cemetery for John A.Waetzig, 60, Carbondale. He died Sunday, Oct. 7, at a Leavenworth hospital. He had cancer.
Mr. Waetzig was employed many years by Tom Ashbrook Dodge at South Gate Calif.
He was born Dec. 13, 1923, at Carbondale, the son of Alfred and Emma Purdy Waetzig. He lived at South Gate Calif., many years before he returned to Carbondale in 1970.
He served with the Navy overseas during World War 11,and was a prisoner of war.
He was a member of an American Legion post in California.
Survivors include two daughters, Patty Motto, Orange, Calif., and Jackie Wayne, Long Beach, Calif.; a brother, Charles Waetzig, Carbondale; and 11 sisters, Amy Rice, Barbara Heath, Virginia Downs,June Onnen and Peggy Owens all of Topeka. Florence Lincoln, Alice Bernhardt and Carol Ashwell, all of Carbondale, Mary Lincoln and Marjorie Bayless, both of Burlingame,and Nellie Fisher, Augusta; and a grandson.
Military graveside services will be conducted by Edward "Ted" Rowe Post No. 2709, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Scranton. Memorial contributions may be made to the Osage County unit of the American Cancer Society and sent in care of Maurine Logan,Vassar, 66543. Mr. Waetzig will lie in state after noon today at Carey Funeral Home, Burlingame.
Obituary;
John A. Waetzig
CARBONDALE- Graveside services will be a 11 a.m. Wednesday at Carbondale Cemetery for John A.Waetzig, 60, Carbondale. He died Sunday, Oct. 7, at a Leavenworth hospital. He had cancer.
Mr. Waetzig was employed many years by Tom Ashbrook Dodge at South Gate Calif.
He was born Dec. 13, 1923, at Carbondale, the son of Alfred and Emma Purdy Waetzig. He lived at South Gate Calif., many years before he returned to Carbondale in 1970.
He served with the Navy overseas during World War 11,and was a prisoner of war.
He was a member of an American Legion post in California.
Survivors include two daughters, Patty Motto, Orange, Calif., and Jackie Wayne, Long Beach, Calif.; a brother, Charles Waetzig, Carbondale; and 11 sisters, Amy Rice, Barbara Heath, Virginia Downs,June Onnen and Peggy Owens all of Topeka. Florence Lincoln, Alice Bernhardt and Carol Ashwell, all of Carbondale, Mary Lincoln and Marjorie Bayless, both of Burlingame,and Nellie Fisher, Augusta; and a grandson.
Military graveside services will be conducted by Edward "Ted" Rowe Post No. 2709, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Scranton. Memorial contributions may be made to the Osage County unit of the American Cancer Society and sent in care of Maurine Logan,Vassar, 66543. Mr. Waetzig will lie in state after noon today at Carey Funeral Home, Burlingame.
Family Members
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James Robert Waetzig
1917–1970
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Mary Alberta Waetzig Lincoln
1919–2001
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Florence L. Waetzig Lincoln
1921–2014
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Amy Jane Waetzig Rice
1925–2007
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Nellie Mae Waetzig Fisher
1927–2013
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Charles Roy "Chuck" Waetzig
1928–2020
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Barbara J. Waetzig Higgins
1930–2017
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Marjorie Iona Waetzig Bayless
1932–1999
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Virginia Ruth Waetzig Downs
1934 – unknown
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Alice Lee Waetzig Bernhardt
1936 – unknown
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Alfred Dee Waetzig
1936–1936
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