Dyck, Velma B. Goertz (1915-2008)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2008 Sep 1 p. 13

Birth date: 1915 Jun 4

text of obituary:

VELMA B. DYCK

Velma B. (Goertz) Dyck, 93, of Buhler, Kan., died Aug. 13, 2008. She was born June 4, 1915, to David H. and Lena (Reimer) Goertz on a farm near Gotebo, Okla.

She was baptized at Ebenezer Mennonite Church in Gotebo by Pastor Hege, who was also one of her high school teachers. She graduated from Gotebo High School.

Soon after graduation, she moved to Newton, Kan., where she worked at FW Woolworth’s and later at Bethel Deaconess Hospital. After moving to Newton, she married John W. Dyck, and they moved to the Emmaus community.

She transferred her membership to Emmaus Mennonite Church and later, when they moved back to Newton, they transferred their membership to First Mennonite Church. For the past 10 years, she lived at Sunshine Villa in Buhler.

Survivors include a daughter, Sharon Ratzloff and her husband, Don, of Buhler; a brother-in-law, Ralph Quiring of North Newton; a sister-in-law, Helen Dyck of Plains, Mo.; two granddaughters and four great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, John, in 1988; and by three sisters, Ella, Nora and Rosa.

Funeral services were held at the Buhler Mortuary. Burial was in Restlawn Gardens of Memory in Newton.