Obituary of Anna Plett

Garden City, Kansas Anna Loepp Plett, age 83, died Monday, June 2, 2008 at the Regency Village in Webster, Texas. She was born January 24, 1925 in a farmhouse near Inman, Kansas the daughter of Jacob and Maria Toews Loepp. Ann was the Valedictorian of her High School graduating class and later received her Associate of Arts Degree in secretarial and commercial studies from Tabor College. In 1948 she and her husband moved to Finney County where they shared farming responsibilities. For decades Joe and Ann were active in the First Baptist Church, teaching Bible and Sunday School and singing in the choir. She also served as the church clerk. They transferred their membership to the First United Methodist Church when they moved into town. Ann loved to sing and play the piano and she was a very strong supporter of the vocal music programs. She volunteered for over thirty years at St. Catherine Hospital. She and Joe were instrumental in opening Jennie Barker School where she served on the school board and PTA, drove a bus route for and worked in the Administrative Offices at USD 457 for several years. She was a homemaker and was active in Happy Hustlers 4-H as well as Happy Homemakers EHU. On September 6, 1945 she married Joseph J. Plett at Inman, Kansas. He died October 3, 2001 in Houston, Texas. Survivors Include: Two Daughters, Marilyn Plett of Houston, Texas and Janeth Dow of Prescott, Arizona; Two Brothers, Rueben Loepp of Hutchinson, Kansas and Menno Loepp of Inman, Kansas; Five Sisters, Marie Draemel of Salina, Kansas Esther Willems of Hutchinson, Kansas Leona Koslowsky of Hillsboro, Kansas Helen Faul of Golden Valley, Minnesota and Velma Schroeder of Inman, Kansas; Three Grandsons and Three Great-Grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, Two Brothers, Henry and David Loepp and a Sister, Martha White. Memorial Services will be held at 2:30pm, Saturday, June 14, 2008 at the Price & Sons Funeral Home in Garden City, Kansas with Rev. Brenda Fluellen presiding. There will be no public visitation. The family requests memorials be given to the Plett Family Scholarship Fund at Garden City Community College in care of Price & Sons Funeral Home of Garden City, Kansas.