Edna J. Walter, 100, died Nov. 4, 2006, at Hospice House.
She was born July 23, 1906, in Covington, in the Oklahoma Territory, the daughter of Henry and Amanda Muchow Kroening. She graduated from Lincoln High School in 1925. A resident of Hutchinson since 1929, she was a homemaker and taught for four years at a country school in Lincoln.
She was a 77-year active member of Our Redeemer Lutheran Church, where she played the organ for 35 years, was a member of the Keen-Agers and the L.W.M.L. and was a loyal and avid member of the Democratic Party and Hutchinson Optimisses.
On Aug. 4, 1929, she married George Walter in Lincoln. He died Dec. 6, 1993.
Survivors include: two sons, Robert and wife, Dixie, Menomonie, Wis., and Kenneth, San Diego; a daughter, Marilyn Johnson, Hutchinson; a brother, Elmer Kroening, Leawood; a sister, Esther Suelter, Hutchinson; 12 grandchildren; and 20 great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by two brothers, Paul and Lambert Kroening; two sisters, Viola Kroening and Ruth Hoyer; and a great-grandson, Michael Walter Graves.
Funeral will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Our Redeemer Lutheran Church, with the Rev. Thomas B. Mendenhall presiding. Visitation will be from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday and from 9 to 11 a.m. Tuesday at Elliott Mortuary, Hutchinson. Burial will be in Fairlawn Burial Park.
Memorials may be sent to Our Redeemer Lutheran Church or Hospice House, both in care of the funeral home.
Personal condolences may be sent to www.elliottmortuary.com.