Regina Leiker
Regina Leiker, age 93, longtime Hays resident, died Friday, June 22, 2012, at her son’s home in Munjor, Kansas.
Regina was born March 8, 1919, in Liebenthal, Kansas, to John H. and Margaret (Kuhn) Kreutzer. She married Henry S. Leiker May 3, 1938, in Munjor, Kansas. He died February 4, 2002. She was a farmer’s wife and a homemaker. She was a member of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church, Daughters of Isabella, Perpetual Adorers of Hays and the Christian Mothers of St. Francis Church of Munjor.
Survivors include her sons, John H. Leiker and his wife, JoAnn of Arvada, Colo., Alan H. Leiker and his wife, Janet of Hays and Mark H. Leiker and his wife, Dora of Munjor, Kansas; daughters, DeAnn Schmidt and her husband, Adolph of Hays, Ella Mueggenberg and her husband, Louis of Carroll, Iowa, and Jane Leiker of Cedar Rapids, Iowa; 13 grandchildren and 14 great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her brothers, Paul, Richard, Leo, Cyrene, Brother Francis, Otto, and Martin Kreutzer; sisters, Monica Wolf, Sister Margaret Kreutzer, and infant sister, Cecilia Kreutzer.
Funeral services will be at 10:00 a.m., Tuesday, June 26, 2012, at the Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church, 1800 Milner in Hays. Burial will be in the St. Joseph Cemetery in Hays. There will be a Perpetual Adorers rosary at 4:00 p.m., a combined Daughters of Isabella rosary and Christian Mothers rosary at 6:00 p.m. and a parish vigil service at 6:30 p.m. on Monday at the Hays Memorial Chapel Funeral Home, 20th and Pine. Friends may call at the funeral home on Monday from 4 until 8 p.m. and on Tuesday from 9:00 a.m. until 9:30 a.m. Memorials have been established in her name and memory with the Building Fund at Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church, St. Thomas More Society at TMP-Marian, or Hospice of Hays Medical Center. Condolences to the family at www.haysmemorial.com.
Helen Harris
Former Phillipsburg, KS resident, Helen Harris of Indiana, PA, died Thursday, April 26, 2012 at the age of 95.
She was born May 3, 1916, to Albert & Elsie Ward Standley, in Lucas, KS.
Helen married Lawrence A. Harris in 1936. The owned and operated the Phillipsburg Cleaners in Phillipsburg until 1984. Lawrence preceded her in death in 1995.
Survivors include daughter, Jeannette Frank of Indiana, PA; 2 grandchildren; 4 great granddaughters; one sister, Ilene Deatherage of Russell, KS; and a sister-in-law, Berneta Ziegler of Lincoln, KS.
Cremation was planned. A memorial service will be held at 11:00 a.m. Monday, June 25, 2012 in the United Presbyterian Church in Phillipsburg, KS with Pastor Chris Davis officiating. A private inturnment will be held in the Fairview Cemetery, Phillipsburg.
Olliff-Boeve Memorial Chapel, 1115 2nd Street, Phillipsburg, Kansas 67661 is in charge of arrangements. Online condolences may be left at www.olliffboeve.com.