Celebration to honor Decker birthday
Elmer Decker of Hesston will be 90 on July 29, 2003. His family will host a birthday party in his honor at the Hesston Area Senior Center, located at the corner of Main and Randall in Hesston, from 1 to 3 p.m. on Saturday, August 2, 2003. Friends and family are invited.
Elmer was born in 1913 in rural Durham to Mary and Tobias Decker. He married Verna Jantz Decker on February 14, 1935. They resided in the house Elmer was born in most of their married life. Verna passed away last year.
Elmer has been a farmer all his life and still enjoys helping his son farm. He has one son and daughter-in-law of Hesston, Wayne and Edna Decker. His grandchildren and great-grandchildren include Braden and Lisa Decker and their three children, Joshua, Abigail and Isaac of Pleasanton, Calif., Rick and Yvonne Scheufler and their daughter Hannah, of Ellinwood, and Eric and Pam Buller and their four children, Jacob, Alexandria, Elizabeth, and Lucille of Newton.
