Wanda Harms (1930 - 2019)
Obituary
Wanda J. Harms, 88, died Wednesday
(April 3, 2019) at St. Francis - Harry Hynes Memorial Hospice in
Wichita. She was born Sept. 1, 1930, in Hillsboro, the daughter of
Pete and Lillie (Boese) Heinrichs.
Wanda studied organ for four years and
attended Tabor College. She taught at rural Roxbury in a one-room
school house and then Lehigh, and for many years she was a dietary
supervisor at Halstead Hospital.
Wanda was a charter member of Hesston
Mennonite Brethren Church and a former member of Parkview Mennonite
Brethren Church in Hillsboro and Koerner Heights Church in Newton,
where she played the organ. She had a 20-year passion for quilting.
She married Richard D. Harms on Aug.
22, 1950, in Lehigh. He died Sept. 7, 2013.
Survivors include a son, Ron (Gwenna)
Harms of Great Bend; granddaughters, Adrienne (Randy) Griffitts of
Wichita and Tiffiney Harms of Sterling; three great-grandchildren; a
brother, Lowell (Bonnie) Heinrichs of rural Goessel; and a sister,
Carol (Walt) Friesen of Hesston.
She was preceded in death by her
parents and her husband.
Graveside service will be 1:30 p.m.
Saturday (April 6, 2019) at Springfield Cemetery, rural Goessel.
Memorial service will be 3 p.m. Saturday at Hesston Mennonite
Brethren Church, Hesston. Family will receive friends from 6 to 8
p.m. Friday (April 5, 2019) at Miller-Ott Funeral Home, Hesston.
Memorial contributions may be made to
Hesston Mennonite Brethren Church worship music fund, in care of the
funeral home.
