Herman George Flaming
COLBY -- Herman George Flaming, 96,
formerly of Newton, died Friday (March 26, 1999) at Prairie Senior
Living Complex in Colby.
He was born July 22, 1902, in Hillsboro
to Abraham J. and Eva (Goertz) Flaming. He married Freda Mae Schmidt
Aug. 17, 1930, at her parents farm outside of Medford, Okla. She
survives of Colby.
He lived in Hydro, Okla., as a young
child. He moved to Grand County, Okla., at the age of 11 and four
years later to Renfrow, Okla., where they settled on his parents farm
and later moved on a farm northeast of Medford.
He moved to Newton in August 1967,
where he was employed as a janitor at a mobile home construction
company until he retired in 1968. He moved to the Bethesda Home in
Goessel in February 1995 and relocated at Prairie Senior Living
Complex in Colby in August 1998.
Other survivors include: two daughters,
Alice Ilene Schmidt of Halstead and Leona Ruth Siebert of Colby; one
sister, Agnes Loewen of Los Oses, Calif.; four grandchildren; two
step-grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren; four
step-great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews. He was
preceded in death by three sisters, Anna Minsch, Emma Flaming and
Susanna Goossen; three half-brothers, Henry Paule Flaming, John
Samuel Flaming and Jacob Abraham Flaming; three half-sisters, Martha
Unruh, Marie Voth and Katherine Jenzen; two grandchildren; and one
great-grandchild.
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m.
today at Newton Bible Church with Pastors Donald Myer and Ted Veer
officiating. Burial will be in the Restlawn Gardens of Memory in
Newton.
Memorials have been established with
Newton Bible Church and Bethesda Nursing Home in Goessel in care of
Petersen Funeral Home.
