Luella R. Haverkamp
Luella R. Haverkamp, 87,
of Seneca, Kansas, died Wednesday, July 24, 2002, at the Nemaha Valley
Community Hospital in Seneca.
She
was born April 21, 1915, on a farm five miles north of Seneca, the daughter
of August and Theresia Menke Haverkamp. Luella graduated from St. Mary's
Grade School at St. Benedict. She attended the Sacred Heart Academy
in Falls City, Nebraska for two years while the family lived there,
and graduated from Frankfort High School, Frankfort, Kansas. In 1937
she moved to Kansas City, Missouri, where she attended the Kansas City
Business School. She was employed by Hallmark from 1938 to 1944.
During
World War II and until 1952, she worked for the War Assets Administration
of the U.S. Government also in Kansas City. Luella returned home for
ten years to help care for her father after her mother's death. On February
21, 1962, she returned to Kansas City and worked as a cashier clerk
for Phillips Petroleum. In 1974 the Kansas City Office was closed, and
she was transferred by the company to Bartlesville, Oklahoma. She worked
there until her retirement in May of 1984. In the fall of 1986, she
moved to Seneca.
She was a member of Sts. Peter &
Paul Church and the St. Ann's Altar Society at the church in Seneca.
In Bartlesville she helped with the her church's food distribution to
the needy. She enjoyed quilting, knitting, and was a stamp collector.
Survivors are three sisters, Loretta
Otting of Seneca, Cecelia Forst of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, and Alma
Clark of Atlanta, Georgia.
Besides her parents, she was preceded
in death by a brother, Elmer Haverkamp and two sisters, Rose Koelzer
and Marcella Haug.
The mass of Christian burial will
be 10:30 A.M. Saturday, July 27, 2002, at Sts. Peter & Paul Church
in Seneca. The burial will be in Sacred Heart Cemetery in Baileyville.
A prayer service will be offered Friday at 2 P.M., with a rosary 7 P.M.
Friday, at the Lauer Funeral Home in Seneca.
Memorials may be given for Sts.
Peter & Paul Church.