Georgie L. Wessel

Georgie L. Wessel, 76, of Seneca, Kansas, died Thursday, March 15, 2001, at a Topeka hospital. She had been fighting cancer for the past six years.
     She was born March 8, 1925, at Decatur, Arkansas, the daughter of Noah B. and June Helen Walklin Reed. Her father worked for the railroad and was in the service so she lived and went to school in many different places.
     She married Willis Kenworthy on October 14, 1941, at Axtell, Kansas. They lived in Axtell where she worked at the Axtell Hospital as a cook and also operated the City Café in Axtell. Her husband, Willis, died September 17, 1953.
     On June 14, 1975, she married Andrew Wessel at St. Bede's Church in Kelly, Kansas. They lived and farmed southwest of Kelly. Georgie helped with the milking on the farm. In June of 2000, they moved to Seneca. Andrew survives of the home in Seneca.
    She was a member of St. Bede's Church and the Altar Society at the church in Kelly, and a charter member of the Ladies Auxiliary of the Fraternal Order of Eagles No. 1915 in Marysville, Kansas. She liked doing crafts, quilting, crocheting, and dolls. She donated her handmade crafts to the church. Georgie also enjoyed sewing for her family. She loved birds, fed them, and was an avid birdwatcher.
     Survivors besides her husband are two sons, George Kenworthy of Axtell, Kansas and David Kenworthy of Cooper, Texas; a daughter, Willa Lee Meiries of Axtell; three brothers, Jack Reed of Boise, Idaho, John Reed of Granby, MO, Charles Reed of Wichita, Kansas; four sisters, Betty Black of Wilder, Idaho, Ella Mae Vansant of Claremore, Oklahoma, Jimmy Banks and Nora Smith both of Boise, Idaho; four grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
     Besides her husband, Willis, a brother, Bud Reed, preceded her in death.
     The mass of Christian burial will be 1:30 P.M. Saturday at St. Bede's Church at Kelly. The burial will be in the church cemetery. The rosary will be prayed at the Lauer Funeral Home in Seneca on Friday at 3 P.M. and at 8 P.M.
     Memorials may be given for St. Bede's Church or for the American Cancer Society and sent in care of the family.