[ Obituaries ]

Topeka Capital-Journal, The, Apr 3, 2001 by Capital-Journal

Charles Martin Jr.

YATES CENTER --- Charles Freeman Martin Jr., 81, Yates Center, died Sunday, April 1, 2001, at an Iola hospital.

He was born May 17, 1919, in Yates Center, to Charles Freeman and Katherine Marie Camac Martin. He graduated from Yates Center High School and the College of Emporia. He spent most of his life in Yates Center where he owned and operated the HiWay Food Basket grocery store before he retired in 1995.

He was a veteran of World War II, having served with the 4th Engineers Regiment of the Army in Asia and the Pacific from 1943 until 1946.

He was a member of the Presbyterian Church, Gilead Lodge No. 144, AF&AM, and Golden Rod Chapter No. 163 of Order of Eastern Star, all in Yates Center, York Rite bodies and Mirza Shrine in Pittsburg.

He was a member of Veterans of Foreign Wars and American Legion and a life member of the Woodson County Historical Society. He had served 25 years on the Yates Center School board.

He married Elouise E. West. She died Sept. 5, 1977. He married Phyllis Hanson Russell. She died Jan. 3, 1990. He married Wilma Billie Sterling Lind. She died Dec. 10, 1996.

Survivors include a son, Langley Martin, Yates Center; a daughter, Kay Jean Brown, Yates Center; four grandchildren; and four great- grandchildren.

Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Campbell Funeral Home in Yates Center. Gilead Lodge No. 144, AF&AM, will conduct graveside services at Yates Center Cemetery. Mr. Martin will lie in state until 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.

Memorial contributions may be made to Golden Rod Chapter No. 163 of Order of Eastern Star in Yates Center, 66783.

Herman Schettler

ST. PAUL --- Herman B. Schettler, 94, St. Paul, died Saturday, March 31, 2001, at a Parsons hospital. He had been ill for 10 days.

He was born June 24, 1906, near Marlow, Okla., to Henry B. and Elizabeth Althoff Schettler. He spent his early life in Sterling, Okla., where he graduated from high school. He moved to the St. Paul community in Neosho County in 1944 and was a farmer before he retired in 1971.

He was a member of St. Francis Catholic Church in St. Paul.

He married Rose Mary Doebel on Jan. 17, 1934, in Sterling. She survives.

Other survivors include four sons, John Schettler and Charles Schettler, both in Parsons, Paul Schettler, Walnut, and Leo Schettler, Plano, Texas; five daughters, Roseann Gartner, Topeka, Christine Schettler, St. Paul, Jane Lancaster, Wichita, Helen Phillips, Lee's Summit, Mo., and Clara White, Columbus; 24 grandchildren; and 40 great-grandchildren.

Mass will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at St. Francis Catholic Church in St. Paul. Burial will be in St. Francis Catholic Cemetery in St. Paul. Mr. Schettler will lie in state from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. today at Carson-Wall Funeral Home in St. Paul and after 6 p.m. at the church where a rosary will be recited at 7 p.m.

Memorial contributions may be made to the building fund at St. Francis Catholic Church in St. Paul, 66771.