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Submitted: 11/17/19 • Approved: 11/17/19 • Last Updated: 11/20/19 • R83313-G82231-S3
Leonard
US Navy
World War II
October 3, 1926 - August 23, 1994
Served 1944 - 1946
Betty
August 15, 1931 - December 11, 2018
Obituary:
Betty Lou Herman, 87, of Arkansas City, passed away Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018, at her residence.
Funeral services are at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 15, at Redeemer Lutheran Church in Arkansas City. Pastor David Harold will officiate. Burial will follow in Highland Cemetery in Winfield.
A memorial has been established for Redeemer Lutheran Church. Contributions can be made through Rindt-Erdman Funeral Home and Crematory. Online condolences can be made at www.rindt-erdman.com.
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Betty was born Aug. 15, 1931, to Alfred W. and Lilly M. (Heinze) Katzenmeier, in Ellsworth. She was reared and educated in Winfield, graduating from Winfield High School in 1950.
Betty married Leonard D. Herman on Aug. 1, 1953, in Springdale, Ark. The couple made their home in Wichita, then Winfield before settling in Arkansas City. Betty and Leonard owned and operated the Flying Burger and South Summit Carry Out for many years until Leonard’s passing in 1994.
Betty loved spending time at the family cabin at Sunset Lake, but most of all she cherished her family and grandchildren. She was a longtime member of Redeemer Lutheran Church.
Betty was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Leonard; a son, Allen Herman; and a brother, Al Katzenmeier.
Survivors include her daughter, Nancy Free and husband, Don, of Pittsburg; sisters, Donna Miller, of Wellington, and Shirley Richardson, of Winfield; grandchildren, Traver Herman and wife, Brandi, of Arkansas City, Brandon Herman, of Palm Beach, Fla., and Tara Bolinger and husband, Nate, Megan Newton and husband, Zach, and Carly Free, all of the Kansas City area; great-grandchildren, Korbyn and Brogan Herman, Brooks Newton, Leo and Elsie Bolinger, and one on the way; and several nieces and nephews.
Photo Courtesy Of Judy Mayfield
Contributed on 11/17/19 by spitandwittle
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