Lichti, Raymond John (1923-2005)

Revision as of 16:06, 7 February 2011

Newton Kansan obituary: 2005 Mar 21 p. 2; 2005 Mar 22 p. 2

Birth date: 1923 Oct 23

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2005 May 2 p. 11

text of obituary:

Raymond John Lichti, 81, of Moundridge, Kan., died March 21, 2005, at Memorial Home. He was born Oct. 23, 1923, to Elmer J. and Leona (Staufer) Lichti near Deer Creek, Okla. He graduated from Bethel College in North Newton in 1948 and attended graduate school at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, for two years. He taught physics and mathematics at Bethel College for several years during the 1950s. He started farming in the early 1950s and began working as a real estate appraiser in the late 1970s, earning a Certified Kansas Appraiser license. He retired from appraising in 2000. He was baptized in June 1938 at Deer Creek Mennonite Church. On Sept. 1, 1950, he married Betty Zerger at Eden Mennonite Church in Moundridge. He was a member of Eden Mennonite Church and served on the Moundridge School Board, the McPherson County Soil Conservation Board, the Turkey Creek Township Board, the Goering Hardware Board and the Moundridge Creamery Board. He was an outdoorsman who loved to fish, garden and landscape. Survivors include his wife, Betty; a son, Joseph R. and his wife, Debi, of Moundridge; two daughters, Lou Ann Lichti of Frederick, Md., and Carol Lichti and her husband, Jim Haag, of Virginia Beach, Va.; a sister, Dorene Regier of Newton; a sister-in-law, Floreda Lichti; a brother-in-law and sister-in-law, Jim and Bonnie Heidebrecht of Topeka; and three grandchildren He was preceded in death by a brother, Clarence Lichti of Blackwell, Okla.