Dessie Troyer Bandy
HESSTON - Dessie Troyer Bandy, 96, died Friday (June 1,
2007) at her home in Hesston. She was born on May 19, 1911, on the family farm
northwest of Inman to Abraham N. and Elizabeth "Lizze" (Zimmerman)
Troyer. She moved to Hesston in 1920 and had lived continuously in Hesston longer
than any other resident. She joined the Hesston Mennonite Church in 1924, and
held the longest continuos membership in this congregation. She married Murray
C. Bandy in Hesston on Sept. 11, 1940. He survives at home.
She graduated from Hesston Academy and began her career as a
switchboard operator and bookkeeper at the Mennonite Hospital in La Junta,
Colo. Returning to Hesston, she was employed at Halstead Hospital and Bethel
Deaconess Hospital in Newton. She was a bookkeeper at the King Motor Co. in
Hesston and at the Hesston Mill. She owned and operated the Village Motel in
Hesston with her husband, and was the bookkeeper and receptionist at Bandy
Realty, also in Hesston. She retired on Jan. 1, 1981.
Survivors include a daughter, Sondra and Philip Koontz of
Newton; sister-in-law, Nina West of Grand Praire, Texas; three nieces; and
three nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents; a brother,
Stephen; a sister, Gertude Troyer Roupp; much loved in-laws; two nieces; and a
nephew.
Visitation with family will be from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Tuesday
at Miller Funeral Home in Hesston.
Memorial service will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the Hesston
Mennonite Church with Wallace Jantz and Norma J. Johnson officiating. A private
family burial will be at Eastlawn Cemetery.
Memorials may be made to Harry Hynes Memorial Hospice in
care if the funeral home.
