Arlie Funk
1923 - 2020
Obituary
Arlie Virgil Funk, 97, went to meet his
Lord on Monday (Jan. 27, 2020) from the Schowalter Villa in Hesston.
He was born on Jan. 12, 1923, to Adolf and Anna (Enns) Funk in Wolf
Point, Montana, the second of seven children.
Times were very rough in Montana, so
Arlie's dad decided to move the family and make the three-day drive
to Hillsboro in August 1939. This was the first time they had
experienced electricity.
Arlie attended and graduated from
Hillsboro High School. In 1943, right out of high school, he started
working on cars. In 1944, Arlie started his own body shop in
Hillsboro. Arlie also started a quartet and together the men traveled
all over Kansas singing and testifying for their Lord. Arlie was
always very concerned about the spiritual well-being of everyone he
met and felt his place on earth was to testify to the unsaved.
In the early 1950s, Arlie became very
involved with the Rescue Mission in Wichita and led services every
Tuesday and Thursday evening. Arlie also played a big role in the
Christian Business Men's Committee. Arlie was also a guest pastor
every Sunday afternoon on Newton's local radio station, KJRG. Arlie,
along with his brother, Pastor Loyal Funk, and good friend, Pastor
Lynford Becker, started the Koerner Heights Mennonite Church in
Newton.
Arlie was a busy man with four small
children, a business, traveling the state with the men's quartet,
being in the Christian Business Men's Committee and the Mission.
Eventually, the Mission and the CBMC fell off and he became more
involved with his church and started a wrecker service with the body
shop.
Then, in 1970, Arlie became Chief of
Police for North Newton. There were many sleepless nights. He never
was able to sleep through a night after retiring from being Chief of
Police in 1983 and retiring from the body shop in 2016.
Arlie is preceded in death by his
parents; wife ,Aldine (Pankratz) Funk; brothers, Loyal and Marvin
Funk; and sisters, Grace Weber and Alice Funk.
Survivors include one daughter, Sharon
(Kevin) Hudson of Newton; three sons, Dwight (Sharon) Funk of Park
City, Dale (Kay) Funk and Terry (Robin) Funk, all of Newton; eight
grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; one great-great-grandchild;
one brother, Laven Funk of Hillsboro; and one sister, Viola Schultz
of Buhler.
A come and go memorial service will be
held from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday (Feb. 2, 2020) in the Family Life Center
at the First Church of God, 620 Fairview, in Newton.
Condolences may be left at
www.broadwaycolonialfh.com.
Arrangements are by Broadway Colonial
Funeral Home, Newton.
