Edwin Arsenius Engel
Hays, Kansas – Edwin Arsenius Engel, age 85, of Loretto, Kansas, died Thursday, September 29, 2011, at Hays Medical Center Hays, Kansas.
He was born February 10, 1926, on the farm at Loretto, Kansas, to Anton and Pauline (Hertel) Engel. He married Ruth Marie (Suppes) on October 17, 1949, Loretto, Kansas.
He was a veteran of the U. S. Navy and served during WW II. He attended school in Otis, was a graduate of Otis High School and attended Fort Hays State College. He was a lifetime farmer and a custom-cutter, owner of Loretto Grocery Store and worked in oil field construction for many years, a bus driver for Otis-Bison School District for nine years, a weather reporter for the National Weather Service for 50 years or more, and a lifetime resident of Rush County. He was the third baseman for the Loretto Semi-Pro Baseball Team, who received the Coca-Cola Award District Champions of the 1948 Northwest Kansas District Tournament. He was a former member of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Loretto, a member of St. Joseph Catholic Church and Knights of Columbus Council No. 2340, both of Liebenthal, Kansas, and was a lifetime member of the VFW of LaCrosse, Kansas.
Survivors include his wife, Ruth M. Engel, of the home: five daughters, Donna Engel and husband Doral Woolen, Wasilla, Alaska; Sandra Caballero and husband Philip, Encounter Bay, South Australia; Paula Robben and husband Bill, Pampa, Texas; Joan Ice and husband Andrew, Johnson City, Tennessee, and Joyce Thompson and husband Kirk, Lancaster, KS; three sisters, Sister M. Rose Engel O.P., Great Bend, Marcella Klein, Hays, and Jane M. Penka, Palm Springs, Calif.; 11 grandchildren, Dr. Heather Robben and husband John Benkelman, Russell Robben and Rachel, Colleen Quick and husband Preston, James Ice, Danielle Woolen, Matthew Robben and wife Brianna, Jessica Hurley and husband Adam, Ryan Ice and wife Michelle, Cassondra Thompson, Korie Thompson and Colin Ice; and 1 great-grandchild Atticus James Quick.
He was preceded by his parents; four brothers, Alex Engel, Paul Engel, Marcellus Engel; Clemens Engel, four sisters, Catherine Urban; Rosie
Evans, Martina Herman, Delores Suppes; and one infant sister Anna Engel.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be at 10:30 A.M. Tuesday, October 4, 2011, at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Loretto, Kansas. Burial in St. Mary’s Cemetery, Loretto, Kansas, with military services by the Hays V.F.W. Post No. 1752.
A Victoria Daughters of Isabella rosary is at 6:30 P.M. Monday, a vigil service is at 7:00 P.M. Monday, and a Leibenthal Knights of Columbus rosary is at 7:30 P.M. Monday all at Cline’s Mortuary of Hays 1919 East 22nd Hays, Kansas 67601.
Visitation is from 6:00 to 9:00 P.M. Monday at Cline’s Mortuary of Hays and from 9:00 to 10:30 A.M. Tuesday at the church. Memorial to St. Mary’s Catholic Church Shrine of Loretto, Kansas. Condolences can be sent via e-mail to [email protected]