Rollie F. Radke

1909-1997 · Kansas City KS

Born 1909, Kansas City, Kansas

Died 1997

Father: Fred Radke

Mother: Magdelene Boxberger

Children include Laura

Rollie F. Radke was born in 1909 at Kansas City, Kansas, the eldest child of Fred Radke and Magdelene Boxberger, both children of German colonists from Russia who had settled in Russell County in the 1870s. His brother Julius was born in 1918 and his sister Olga in 1921. The family lived in the Russian-German country around Milberger, Hoisington and Great Bend.

He married Dorothy I. Sellens, born at Hoisington in 1920. Their children were Laura Lee in 1939, Warren in 1944, Jake in 1949, Rose, and Donald in 1956, the three younger boys all born at Great Bend. He worked as a maintenance serviceman for KPL, the Kansas Power and Light company, and lived at Great Bend and Ellinwood. Dorothy died in 1980 and his daughter Laura in 1991. In his last years he lived at Cushing, Oklahoma, where his son Jake had settled.

He died on Thursday 9 January 1997, aged 87. The Great Bend Tribune notice: "Radke, Rollie F., 87, of Cushing, Okla., formerly of Ellinwood and Great Bend, retired KPL maintenance serviceman, died Thursday, Jan. 9, 1997. Service 2:30 p.m. Monday, Lakin-Comanche District Cemetery, Ellinwood. Memorial has been established with the Alzheimer's Association for research. Kimple Funeral Home." He is buried beside Dorothy at Lakin Comanche Cemetery.

Parents

Magdelene Boxberger (1886-1953)

Fred Radke (1886-1970)

Children

Laura Lee Radke 1939-1991

Sources

Wichita Eagle, Sunday 17 February 1991, p. 9; clipping posted on Find a Grave memorial 36933168.

Find a Grave, memorial 83500284 and 83509561, Lakin Comanche Cemetery; photograph by Ray Davidson, 13 September 2015.

Great Bend Tribune, January 1997, transcribed on Find a Grave memorial 83500284.

Great Bend Tribune, March 2016, obituary of Jake E. Radke, transcribed on Find a Grave memorial 159015689.

Great Bend Tribune, January 1997, obituary (transcribed on Find a Grave memorial 83500284); gravestone; obituaries of Laura L. Sekavec (1991), Donald L. Radke (2014) and Jake E. Radke (2016).

Wichita, Kansas, newspaper obituaries, May 1980, "ELLINWOOD -- Dorothy (Mrs. Rollie) Radke"; Wichita, Sedgwick, Kansas, Obituaries 1977-1980, FamilySearch image 61903/3:1:3QHV-B352-YSH5.

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