Harry J. Waters, Emporia
1922 - 2008
The memorial service for Harry J. Waters of Holiday Estates will be at 3:30 p.m. Sunday at the First Congregational Church. The Rev. Al Areheart of the Twelfth Avenue Baptist Church will conduct the service. Mr. Waters was cremated.
The family suggests that, instead of flowers, memorial contributions be made to the Harry J. Waters Scholarship for Counselor Education with the ESU Foundation and sent in care of the Roberts-Blue-Barnett Funeral Home, P.O. Box 175, Emporia, KS 66801.
Mr. Waters died Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2008, at the Holiday Resort. He was 85.
He was professor and chairman of the Counselor Education Department at Emporia State University before he retired in the spring of 1985. He was a Navy Air Corps veteran of World War II.
The son of Harry Austin and Ethel Cline Waters, he was born April 16, 1922, at Farnhamville, Iowa. He married Helen Rude on Jan. 25, 1945, at Marshalltown, Iowa. She survives.
Mr. Waters was a member of the First Congregational Church and member of the church board of trustees. He was a member of the Emporia Recreation Commission board for 47 years, a member of the Emporia Country Club board of directors and the Grinnell College Alumni board. He was a member of the High Noon Kiwanis, Emporia Chamber of Commerce, American Legion Ball-McColm Post 5 and many other professional and academic associations and committees.
He is also survived by two sons, Scott Douglas Waters of Emporia and John Randolph Waters of Merriam; one daughter, Harriet Ann “Hatsie” Lawrence of Lenexa; 13 grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren. Four sisters and two brothers died earlier.