Terry Christie
Funeral Home
ESTEL
L. GROSS
Estel
L. Gross,
87, of Marysville, passed away Wednesday, June 2, 2010
at the Community Memorial Hospital in Marysville.
A graveside service will be held at 11 am,
Friday, June 11, 2010 at the Marysville City Cemetery
with Pastor Joel Barber officiating.
Valerie Oltman will sing “On Eagle’s Wings”
and “Amazing Grace”.
Honorary Bearers are Jerry E. Barnard, Jim
Schramm, Tom Busing, Mike Slupianek, Jake Slupianek,
Adam Slupianek, Tim Ackerman and Todd Ackerman.
The service will conclude with Military Rites
provided by the SMN&R Post 163 of the American
Legion in Marysville.
Estel (E.L.) was born
December 22, 1922 at Beloit to Vern and Reba (Willmeth)
Gross. He
graduated from Waterville High School in 1941.
E.L. joined the US
Army in February of 1943.
He trained at Fort Camel, Kentucky with the 20th
Armored Tank Regiment until being transferred to Hawaii
for amphibious training.
He was then stationed at YAP in the Pacific,
Leyte Philippines and was in the invasion of Okinawa.
After the war he was stationed at Mindoro in the
Philippines until he was sent back to the states on
December 22nd, 1945, his birthday.
He received his discharge from the Army on
January 25, 1946, his wife Florence’s birthday.
He married Florence
Faye Murdock on March 8, 1947, she passed away February
9, 2005. They
raised three daughters, Dixie, Vicky Sue and Sherrie.
He worked at various jobs with farmers and at
construction until 1949 when he went to work for
Walter’s Conoco driving a gas delivery truck for
Conoco and Westgate Derby Stations.
In 1978 he went to work for the City of
Marysville at the city water plant, retiring in 1990.
After retirement E.L. drove a pilot car for
Landoll Corporation.
Survivors include his
three daughters; Dixie Richter and husband Arlen of
Barnes, Vicky Sue and fiancé Mark McMahon of
Marysville and Sherrie Busing and husband Bruce also of
Marysville, a brother; Loren Gross of Henderson, Nevada,
two sisters; Joan Galloway of Concord, California and
Ruby Bancher of Southgate, California, two grandsons,
three granddaughters, two great grandsons, three great
granddaughters and a special friend, EuVonne Fincham.
Memorials are
suggested to the Estel Gross Memorial Fund and are to be
designated later, and may be sent in care of
Terry-Christie Funeral Home at PO Box 61, Waterville,
Kansas 66548.
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