Posar, Ethel Blanche Loucks (1927-2004)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2004 Mar 8 p. 12

Birth date: 1927 Mar 27

text of obituary:

ETHEL BLANCHE POSAR

Ethel Blanche Posar, 77, died Feb. 19, 2004, at a nursing home in Oklahoma City, Okla. She had been in failing health for some time. She was born March 27, 1927, the youngest child of Joseph S. and Clara (Bitikofer) Loucks at Canton, Kan.

She grew up on the family farm south of Canton. She attended public schools in McPherson County, and graduated from Hesston Academy in 1948. After graduation she worked for some years at the Hesston Record, then owned and operated by Harold Sommerfeld.

As a young girl she accepted Christ and was baptized at Spring Valley Mennonite Church near Canton. She remained active in the church wherever she lived, and at the time of her death was a member of Northwest Free Will Baptist Church in Oklahoma City.

On March 24, 1957, she married James Posar Jr. at Hesston, Kan. He also worked at the Hesston Record for some time as a typesetter. Wherever they lived he was active in the printing business. They lived in Hesston for several years, later moving to Wichita, then to various areas near Oklahoma City, and spent some years in Houston, Texas, before moving to Oklahoma City for their latter years.

She was a homemaker and helpmeet to her husband, and was his primary caregiver during his final years.

Survivors include a son, Robert and his wife, Debbi, of Oklahoma City; a daughter, Veronica Worley and her husband, Keith, of Fayetteville, N.C.; a brother, Phares Loucks of Hesston; three sisters, Marjorie Knight of Albany, Ore., Vera Diener of Weatherford and Myrtle Stutzman of Hesston; and four granddaughters.

She was preceded in death by her husband, James, on Oct. 27, 1996; three brothers, Ernest, Vernon and Charlie Loucks; and two sisters, Mildred Benner and Erma Jantz.

A memorial service was held at Northwest Free Will Baptist Church in Oklahoma City.