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These are nieces of William ? Ruth Belle Stransky, daughter of James Foster and Stella Bell Aughe Gregory, was born December 6, 1909 at Reynolds, Nebraska, and died July 17, 1999 at the Belleville Health Care Center, Belleville, Kansas, at the age of 89 years, seven months and 11 days. She received her education in the Reynolds, Nebraska, and Munden, Kansas, school systems. She was united in marriage to Rex Elmer Stransky on August 3, 1927 and to this union a daughter was born. They became the third generation owners of the Stransky Grocery & Dry Goods Store in 1944 and operated it till 1988. She was a member of the United Methodist Church of Munden, serving as church treasurer, U.M.W. officer, B.B. Club and Ophel Chapter #155 O.E.S. of Belleville. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, Rex, in 1991, four brothers, Harry Gregory, Luther Gregory, Raymond Gregory and Walter Gregory, two sisters, Pearle Dragoo and Hazel Novacek. She is survived by a daughter, Patricia Handley of Belleville, Kansas, two grandchildren, four great- grandchildren, and two sisters, Vera Winters of Amarillo, Texas, and Marjorie Engell of Wauneta, Nebraska. Funeral services were held on Tuesday, July 20, 1999 at the United Methodist Church, Munden, Kansas, with Walter Molzahn and C. Milton Lenz officiating. A Interment was made in Tabor' Cemetery, Munden, Kansas. WAUNETA, Nebraska May 25, 2011 -- Marjorie Estella Gregory Engell was born Aug. 3, 1917, the last of nine children, to James Foster and Stella Bell (Aughe) Gregory on the family farm south of Reynolds, Nebraska. She attended her first year of school in Reynolds before moving with her family to Byron, Nebraska for a short time and later on to Munden, Kansas, where she graduated from the eighth grade. After the death of her father, Marjorie, her mother and her sister Vera moved back to Reynolds. In 1932 the three moved to Wauneta, Nebraska, to be near two older sisters, Hazel and Pearl. Marjorie graduated from Wauneta High School in 1935. She worked as a nanny for a family in McCook, Nebraska, and later as a telephone operator in Wauneta. On March 25, 1939, she married Delman William (Ike) Engell in Belleville, Kansas. They made their home on a farm four miles east of Wauneta, where they worked side by side for the next 51 years. They raised two children there, Jody Bell and Kip Riley. |
J. G. WHITELOCK, farmer, P. O. Chester, Neb., was born in Henry County, Ind., in 1833; was raised there, learning the carpenters' trade and remained there until 1859; emigrating from there to Nebraska, he settled in Plattsmouth when there were but three business houses in the place and began contracting and building, following this business until the war broke out in 1861, when he enlisted in the First Nebraska Regiment as First Sergeant Company A., first company raised in the State; at the end of the first year was promoted, receiving a Second Lieutenant's commission and served as such four years, serving in all five years. After coming out of the army he returned to Plattsmouth and was employed as a salesman in a store for two years; he then located at Ashland, Neb., and engaged in contracting and building, remaining there until 1876, when he sold out and emigrated to Kansas, locating in Republic County and purchased a farm of 242 acres on Section 30, Rose Creek Township. He has 168 acres under the plow; the balance is meadow. He has three acres of timber, a good orchard, seventy peach trees, seventy apple trees, cherries and small fruits of all kinds, and is extensively engaged in raising hogs, marketing from sixty to 100 each year, and will increase this and raise all the farm will produce feed for. He is raising 150 acres of corn at the present time. He was married in 1856, at Warren County, Ind., to Miss Malissa Aughe of Williamsport, Warren Co., Ind. They have three children - Frank, Guy, and Robert. They are also raising a niece of Mrs. Whitelock, Sophia M. Ennis. In 1868 Mr. Whitelock was elected Sheriff of Saunders County, Neb., and served for two terms, four years in all, and after term of service was appointed City Marshal of Ashland, and held that position for seven years and worked at his trade as carpenter and contractor. |
Married first; Marilyn Smith, no children Married second; Zudora Howarter, no children Married third; Velma Gilstrap, 3 children Nancy, Herman, and Loren (adopted by Bob Cornish-Velma's second husband) Married fourth; Etta Hamiln, 4 children, April, Linda, Bruce, and Eunice (she remarried Don Riblett) Married fifth; Gladys ? (Mickie), no children Married sixth; Sharon Nelson in 1960. Sharon was born on Nov. 12, 1936. 2 children Christopher and Craig |
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