April 1, 1980
The Hutchinson News
Hutchinson, Reno, KS, USA
Mrs. Herman Dalke
Mrs. Selma L. Dalke, 53, RFD 5, died Monday at Hutchinson Hospital
following a long illness. Born Selma L. Flickinger June 24, 1926, at Monroe, Wash., she was married to Herman Dalke April 20, 1944, at Burrton. She was a former administror of the Friendship Day Care Centers.
She was a member of the First Mennonite Church and had been active in various child care programs in Kansas.
Survivors: widower, of the home; sons: Robert E., Turpin, Okla., Donell R., Wichita; Daniel Lee, 300 West 23rd; Richard A., Ulysses; Randal S., 328 West 13th; David M.; daughter: Kathi S., both of the home; mother: Mrs. Ella Flickinger, Burrton: brothers: Eugene and Ronald Flickinger, both of Wichita; Jake Flickinger, Newton; Larry and David Flickinger, both of Burrton; six grandchildren.
Funeral will be 2 p.m. Friday at the church; the Rev. Richard Ratzlaff. Burial in Memorial Park Cemetery. Friends may call 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday and 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday at Gustafson, Volklund Funeral Home. The family suggests memorials to the Friendship Day Care Centers in care of the church.
The Family Tribute
Selma Louise Flickinger Dalke
June 21, 1926 – March 31, 1980
The family is a link that we all share in the lives we live,
That starting point in life’s journey that to every child is give.
Families are a gift of love, the first to each of us bestowed,
And the quality they provide varies by the examples showed.
To one example in our family we give tribute today,
For a person who has touched us all now recently passed away.
A good friend of so very many, a grandmother, mother and wife
“Mom” reached the journey’s end to an already full and happy life.
The love that our family shares is a product of Mom and Dad,
Like where the total of the whole is more than all the parts would add.
For the love that Mom gave us from a bottomless well must have sprang,
As each crisis she helped us through, a happier song she then sang.
Her maiden family is closeness, a part of her security,
Mom instilled in her children a value of pride in unity.
Yet through our individualities she taught us self-respect,
As our unique talents she encouraged each of us to project.
Mom’s own personal values so carefully researched and thought-out
Enabled her to help us in setting goals and resolving doubt.
Through the years of easy impression and endless question she lead,
Always showing a strong example yet letting us have our head.
Never afraid to discuss any of the things she believed
Mom approached each situation with how to her it was perceived.
And while there were mistakes that she made, they were only made in love,
Errors in how she should help, rather than pain from a greedy shove.
The love that into each our lives Mom so skillfully directed
Is the love of God above, which she almost perfectly reflected.
While now she goes to be with Him, her immortality on Earth
Is the legacy of love in those to whom she and Dad gave birth.
For each of us has been provided example of the highest grade,
A pattern to follow for a happy family to be made.
In the way our families we raise and other people we meet
The continued impact of Mom’s life in a cycle we complete.
Mom, herself, for family only never kept her love locked up,
But instead, reached outside as well, “passing on the communion cup.”
First our friends and then the wives we took, Mom adopted as her own,
And often to a homeless V. S.’er, our Christmas she would loan.
In fact, we recognize that most of you joining with us today
Somehow, somewhere in her short life, were also affected this way.
So we offer our empathy, for the sorrow you also feel,
And ask you to remember Mom, in God’s love which with time does heal.
In loving memory,
Daniel
The Hutchinson News
Hutchinson, Reno, KS, USA
Mrs. Herman Dalke
Mrs. Selma L. Dalke, 53, RFD 5, died Monday at Hutchinson Hospital
following a long illness. Born Selma L. Flickinger June 24, 1926, at Monroe, Wash., she was married to Herman Dalke April 20, 1944, at Burrton. She was a former administror of the Friendship Day Care Centers.
She was a member of the First Mennonite Church and had been active in various child care programs in Kansas.
Survivors: widower, of the home; sons: Robert E., Turpin, Okla., Donell R., Wichita; Daniel Lee, 300 West 23rd; Richard A., Ulysses; Randal S., 328 West 13th; David M.; daughter: Kathi S., both of the home; mother: Mrs. Ella Flickinger, Burrton: brothers: Eugene and Ronald Flickinger, both of Wichita; Jake Flickinger, Newton; Larry and David Flickinger, both of Burrton; six grandchildren.
Funeral will be 2 p.m. Friday at the church; the Rev. Richard Ratzlaff. Burial in Memorial Park Cemetery. Friends may call 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday and 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday at Gustafson, Volklund Funeral Home. The family suggests memorials to the Friendship Day Care Centers in care of the church.
The Family Tribute
Selma Louise Flickinger Dalke
June 21, 1926 – March 31, 1980
The family is a link that we all share in the lives we live,
That starting point in life’s journey that to every child is give.
Families are a gift of love, the first to each of us bestowed,
And the quality they provide varies by the examples showed.
To one example in our family we give tribute today,
For a person who has touched us all now recently passed away.
A good friend of so very many, a grandmother, mother and wife
“Mom” reached the journey’s end to an already full and happy life.
The love that our family shares is a product of Mom and Dad,
Like where the total of the whole is more than all the parts would add.
For the love that Mom gave us from a bottomless well must have sprang,
As each crisis she helped us through, a happier song she then sang.
Her maiden family is closeness, a part of her security,
Mom instilled in her children a value of pride in unity.
Yet through our individualities she taught us self-respect,
As our unique talents she encouraged each of us to project.
Mom’s own personal values so carefully researched and thought-out
Enabled her to help us in setting goals and resolving doubt.
Through the years of easy impression and endless question she lead,
Always showing a strong example yet letting us have our head.
Never afraid to discuss any of the things she believed
Mom approached each situation with how to her it was perceived.
And while there were mistakes that she made, they were only made in love,
Errors in how she should help, rather than pain from a greedy shove.
The love that into each our lives Mom so skillfully directed
Is the love of God above, which she almost perfectly reflected.
While now she goes to be with Him, her immortality on Earth
Is the legacy of love in those to whom she and Dad gave birth.
For each of us has been provided example of the highest grade,
A pattern to follow for a happy family to be made.
In the way our families we raise and other people we meet
The continued impact of Mom’s life in a cycle we complete.
Mom, herself, for family only never kept her love locked up,
But instead, reached outside as well, “passing on the communion cup.”
First our friends and then the wives we took, Mom adopted as her own,
And often to a homeless V. S.’er, our Christmas she would loan.
In fact, we recognize that most of you joining with us today
Somehow, somewhere in her short life, were also affected this way.
So we offer our empathy, for the sorrow you also feel,
And ask you to remember Mom, in God’s love which with time does heal.
In loving memory,
Daniel
April 1, 1980
The Hutchinson News
Hutchinson, Reno, KS, USA
Mrs. Herman Dalke
Mrs. Selma L. Dalke, 53, RFD 5, died Monday at Hutchinson Hospital
following a long illness. Born Selma L. Flickinger June 24, 1926, at Monroe, Wash., she was married to Herman Dalke April 20, 1944, at Burrton. She was a former administror of the Friendship Day Care Centers.
She was a member of the First Mennonite Church and had been active in various child care programs in Kansas.
Survivors: widower, of the home; sons: Robert E., Turpin, Okla., Donell R., Wichita; Daniel Lee, 300 West 23rd; Richard A., Ulysses; Randal S., 328 West 13th; David M.; daughter: Kathi S., both of the home; mother: Mrs. Ella Flickinger, Burrton: brothers: Eugene and Ronald Flickinger, both of Wichita; Jake Flickinger, Newton; Larry and David Flickinger, both of Burrton; six grandchildren.
Funeral will be 2 p.m. Friday at the church; the Rev. Richard Ratzlaff. Burial in Memorial Park Cemetery. Friends may call 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday and 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday at Gustafson, Volklund Funeral Home. The family suggests memorials to the Friendship Day Care Centers in care of the church.
The Family Tribute
Selma Louise Flickinger Dalke
June 21, 1926 – March 31, 1980
The family is a link that we all share in the lives we live,
That starting point in life’s journey that to every child is give.
Families are a gift of love, the first to each of us bestowed,
And the quality they provide varies by the examples showed.
To one example in our family we give tribute today,
For a person who has touched us all now recently passed away.
A good friend of so very many, a grandmother, mother and wife
“Mom” reached the journey’s end to an already full and happy life.
The love that our family shares is a product of Mom and Dad,
Like where the total of the whole is more than all the parts would add.
For the love that Mom gave us from a bottomless well must have sprang,
As each crisis she helped us through, a happier song she then sang.
Her maiden family is closeness, a part of her security,
Mom instilled in her children a value of pride in unity.
Yet through our individualities she taught us self-respect,
As our unique talents she encouraged each of us to project.
Mom’s own personal values so carefully researched and thought-out
Enabled her to help us in setting goals and resolving doubt.
Through the years of easy impression and endless question she lead,
Always showing a strong example yet letting us have our head.
Never afraid to discuss any of the things she believed
Mom approached each situation with how to her it was perceived.
And while there were mistakes that she made, they were only made in love,
Errors in how she should help, rather than pain from a greedy shove.
The love that into each our lives Mom so skillfully directed
Is the love of God above, which she almost perfectly reflected.
While now she goes to be with Him, her immortality on Earth
Is the legacy of love in those to whom she and Dad gave birth.
For each of us has been provided example of the highest grade,
A pattern to follow for a happy family to be made.
In the way our families we raise and other people we meet
The continued impact of Mom’s life in a cycle we complete.
Mom, herself, for family only never kept her love locked up,
But instead, reached outside as well, “passing on the communion cup.”
First our friends and then the wives we took, Mom adopted as her own,
And often to a homeless V. S.’er, our Christmas she would loan.
In fact, we recognize that most of you joining with us today
Somehow, somewhere in her short life, were also affected this way.
So we offer our empathy, for the sorrow you also feel,
And ask you to remember Mom, in God’s love which with time does heal.
In loving memory,
Daniel
The Hutchinson News
Hutchinson, Reno, KS, USA
Mrs. Herman Dalke
Mrs. Selma L. Dalke, 53, RFD 5, died Monday at Hutchinson Hospital
following a long illness. Born Selma L. Flickinger June 24, 1926, at Monroe, Wash., she was married to Herman Dalke April 20, 1944, at Burrton. She was a former administror of the Friendship Day Care Centers.
She was a member of the First Mennonite Church and had been active in various child care programs in Kansas.
Survivors: widower, of the home; sons: Robert E., Turpin, Okla., Donell R., Wichita; Daniel Lee, 300 West 23rd; Richard A., Ulysses; Randal S., 328 West 13th; David M.; daughter: Kathi S., both of the home; mother: Mrs. Ella Flickinger, Burrton: brothers: Eugene and Ronald Flickinger, both of Wichita; Jake Flickinger, Newton; Larry and David Flickinger, both of Burrton; six grandchildren.
Funeral will be 2 p.m. Friday at the church; the Rev. Richard Ratzlaff. Burial in Memorial Park Cemetery. Friends may call 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday and 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday at Gustafson, Volklund Funeral Home. The family suggests memorials to the Friendship Day Care Centers in care of the church.
The Family Tribute
Selma Louise Flickinger Dalke
June 21, 1926 – March 31, 1980
The family is a link that we all share in the lives we live,
That starting point in life’s journey that to every child is give.
Families are a gift of love, the first to each of us bestowed,
And the quality they provide varies by the examples showed.
To one example in our family we give tribute today,
For a person who has touched us all now recently passed away.
A good friend of so very many, a grandmother, mother and wife
“Mom” reached the journey’s end to an already full and happy life.
The love that our family shares is a product of Mom and Dad,
Like where the total of the whole is more than all the parts would add.
For the love that Mom gave us from a bottomless well must have sprang,
As each crisis she helped us through, a happier song she then sang.
Her maiden family is closeness, a part of her security,
Mom instilled in her children a value of pride in unity.
Yet through our individualities she taught us self-respect,
As our unique talents she encouraged each of us to project.
Mom’s own personal values so carefully researched and thought-out
Enabled her to help us in setting goals and resolving doubt.
Through the years of easy impression and endless question she lead,
Always showing a strong example yet letting us have our head.
Never afraid to discuss any of the things she believed
Mom approached each situation with how to her it was perceived.
And while there were mistakes that she made, they were only made in love,
Errors in how she should help, rather than pain from a greedy shove.
The love that into each our lives Mom so skillfully directed
Is the love of God above, which she almost perfectly reflected.
While now she goes to be with Him, her immortality on Earth
Is the legacy of love in those to whom she and Dad gave birth.
For each of us has been provided example of the highest grade,
A pattern to follow for a happy family to be made.
In the way our families we raise and other people we meet
The continued impact of Mom’s life in a cycle we complete.
Mom, herself, for family only never kept her love locked up,
But instead, reached outside as well, “passing on the communion cup.”
First our friends and then the wives we took, Mom adopted as her own,
And often to a homeless V. S.’er, our Christmas she would loan.
In fact, we recognize that most of you joining with us today
Somehow, somewhere in her short life, were also affected this way.
So we offer our empathy, for the sorrow you also feel,
And ask you to remember Mom, in God’s love which with time does heal.
In loving memory,
Daniel
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