William Harold Brumbaugh, Wichita
The funeral for William Harold Brumbaugh, formerly of Homestead Community, will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Brown-Bennett-Alexander Funeral Home in Cottonwood Falls. The Rev. Francis McKinney of the North Ridge Friends Church in Wichita will conduct the service. Burial will be in Homestead Cemetery at Homestead Community. The family will meet friends from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Friday at the funeral home. Friends also may call at the funeral home from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday and from 9 a.m. Saturday until service time.
Memorial contributions to Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders Association-SC Kansas may be sent in care of the funeral home, 201 Cherry St., Cottonwood Falls, KS 66845.
Mr. Brumbaugh died Tuesday, June 12, 2007, at Via Christi-St. Francis in Wichita. He was 89.
He worked for the Coleman company in Wichita before he retired after 32 years of service. Earlier, he and his wife, Dorothy, farmed in Homestead Township until 1943, in Marion County until 1949 and Greenwood County until the spring of 1951. They then moved to Wichita.
The son of William A. and Myrtle L. Merritt Brumbaugh, he was born May 25, 1918, in Clements. He attended Homestead and Forest Hill grade schools and graduated from Matfield Green High School in 1937.
He married Dorothy Marie Baker on Dec. 3, 1939, at Emporia. She died Feb. 22, 1994.
Mr. Brumbaugh is survived by two sons, Lyle Brumbaugh of Augusta and Jerry Brumbaugh of Alexandria, Va.; four daughters, Dianna Peters of Columbus, Ind., Leta McGuiness and Linda Flores, both of Knoxville, Tenn., and Marcia Sanders of Cherokee Village, Ark.; 20 grandchildren; and 25 great-grandchildren.
A son, Gary Leroy Brumbaugh, died at birth. A brother, Kenneth Merle Brumbaugh; and a sister, Betty Lou, also died earlier.