Elsie F. Schmidt
Elsie F. Schmidt, 66, of Newton died Nov. 21, 2003, at the Kansas Heart Hospital in Wichita.
Born May 27, 1937, at Goessel, she was the daughter of Sam J. and Agnes (Hiebert) Flaming.
On May 6, 1960, she married Kenneth W. Schmidt.
After marriage the couple lived in Goessel for 17 years then moved to Newton.
She was a teacher, Avon salesperson and homemaker.
She was a member of New Creation Fellowship Church and a former member of the Goessel Women's Christian Association, having served as president for one year.
She helped organize and was president of the Goessel Garden Club. She was an M2 partner and a volunteer in the chaplain's office at the Hutchinson Correctional Facility.
She also taught at the Goessel Elementary School for six years.
She was preceded in death by her parents; brother, Roy Flaming; and sisters, Edna Flaming and Mary Ann Janzen.
Survivors include her husband of Newton; daughters, Loretta Schmidt of Newton and Karen and her husband Victor Borrego of Evans, Colo.; brother, Jim Flaming and his wife Eulalia of Hillsboro, Ed Flaming and his wife Shirley of Durham, Ray Flaming and his wife Mary of Crater Lake, Ore., and Orville Flaming and his wife Johanna of Weatherford, Okla.; sister, Rosa and her husband Ernie Voth of Buffalo Mills, Pa.; and two grandchildren.
Services were held Tuesday at the Tabor Mennonite Church near Goessel with Revs. Ruth Penner and Wes Bergen officiating. Burial was at the church cemetery.
Memorial funds have been established with the American Heart Association and the New Creation Fellowship early childhood development program.
