Obituary

Vada Evalee Becker, 69, Halstead, died Thursday, June 17, 1999 at Wheat State Manor in Whitewater. She ws born October 17, 1929 at Grant County, Kansas, the daughter of Harvey A. and Ruth Koehn Nichols. A former Halstead resident, moving to Wheatstate Manor in 1993, she was a homemaker. She was a member of Grace Mennonite Church in Halstead.

On June 14, 1953, she married LeRoy Koehn at Montezuma. He died May 31, 1968. On January 11, 1972 she married Elias Peter Becker at Halstead. He died June 19, 1988.

Survivors: brother, Marvin Nichols, Montezuman and a sister, Marjorie Nichols, Halstead.

Funeral was Saturday, June 19 at Grace Mennonite Church, Halstead with ministers, Kenneth Smith, Raleigh Koehn and Dean Becker presididng. Burial was in the Halstead Cemetery.