Arthur E. Hertzler, MD was born in West Point, Iowa on July 26, 1870, son of Daniel and Hannah Krehbiel Hertzler, who came from Iowa to Moundridge for the benefit of the father's health. His mother was the first Mennonite child born west of the Mississippi.
Death came to Dr. Hertzler, world famed doctor and writer in the Halstead Hospital that he had founded in the pioneer days of Kansas medicine. He was stricken ill Sunday night and taken to the hospital where he died shortly afternoon Thursday. Cause of death was heart failure and uremia.
Dr. Hertzler married three times. He married Myrtle Arnold of Denmark, Iowa in 1894 and to them were born three children, Agnes Hancock (deceased), Helen Lenore, now Helen Hertzler Huebert of Los Angeles and Margaret Lois now Margaret Hertzler Brown, also of Los Angeles. He was divorced from his first wife and married Edith Sarrison, his superintendent of nurses. He was divorced from his second wife and married Irene Koeneke who is now chief gynecologist at the Hertzler Clinic. The present Mrs. Hertzler, Dr. Koeneke, has been in Canada studying and was on the way home at the time of his death.
He was welll known as "The Horse and Buggy Doctor". He felt the need for hospitalizaation of patients so purchased an eight room residence in Halstead, thus the Halstead Hospital was founded in 1902. At first he spent only weekends here as his teaching positions in Kansas University occupied the other days of the week. The last major hospital lenlargement was completed in 19310. He gave the hospital to the Sisters of St. ZJoseph in 1933 and patients came to the Halstead Hospital from every state in the nation and numerous foreign countries.
He leaves several grandchildren: Dr. Dean Huebert, who is interning at the Kansas University hospital in Kansas City, Missouri and Dr. Dan Huebert, interniing at St. Luke's Hospital, Denver, Colorado; sons of Dr. Agnes Hertzler; Helen Marie, who is in nurses training in Los Angeles; Joan and Robert Huebert, children of Helen Hertzler Huebert of Los Angeles; and John and Dorothy Brown, children of Margaret Hertzler Brown of Los Angeles.
Funeral arrangements are pending the arrival of Dr. Koeneke who was expected in Halstead Thursday evening. His two daughters were also expected.
He will be laid to rest in the Halstead cemetery beside his beeloved daughter Agnes.
