ALMA REDIGER
1925 - 2017
Obituary
Alma Jean Rediger, 91, of Hesston, died
March 23, 2017, at the Newton Medical Center.
She was born in Allen County, Ohio, on
Nov. 12, 1925, the daughter of Chester and Eva Mae Wright Alspaugh.
Alma Jean and her sister Esther were later adopted by Edward and
Elizabeth Statler Rediger.
She attended grade school in Flanagan,
Illinois. The Rediger's moved to Kansas in 1941, where Alma Jean
attended and graduated from high school and college in Hesston. She
received her bachelor's degree at Bethel College. For several years,
she was a grade school teacher in Hutchinson.
Alma Jean and her sister Esther owned
and operated the Knit-N-Nacks craft shop in Hutchinson, and later the
Golden Thimble at Schowalter Villa, in Hesston.
She was a longtime member of the First
Church of the Nazarene in Newton and was a volunteer through the
grandparents program at area schools.
Survivors include her sisters, Mary
Bontrager of Goshen, Indiana, and Evelyn Shaw and husband Eugene of
Hillsdale, Michigan; sister-in-law, Marie Alspaugh of Reading,
Michigan; along with a number of nieces and nephews.
Alma Jean is preceded in death by her
parents; brothers, Edward, Charles and Hubert Alspaugh; and sisters,
Olive Macey, Betty Cash and Esther Rediger.
Memorial services will be at 7 p.m.,
Saturday (April 8, 2017) at the First Church of the Nazarene in
Newton. Private inurnment will take place at the Waldo Township
Cemetery near Gridley, Illinois. There will be no visitation as
cremation has been effected.
Condolences may be left at
www.broadwaycolonialfh.com.
Arrangements are by Broadway Colonial
Funeral Home, Newton.
