Charles Amos Jantz
Charles Amos Jantz, 72, 6805 N. Meridian, a retired truck driver and maintenance employee for Wichita State University, died Sunday (Nov. 3, 1991) at his home.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Golden Plains Free Methodist Church, with Pastor Claude Griffith officiating. Burial will be in Eastlawn Cemetery, Zimmerdale.
He was born Nov. 3, 1919, in Harvey County, the son of Peter and Lula (Brenneman) Jantz. On July 21, 1940, he married Lila Belle Hays in Salina. She survives.
He was a member of Golden Plains Free Methodist Church and was a Boy Scouts of America scout master. He served in the Merchant Marine from 1944-47. He lived in the house in which he was born and raised.
Other survivors include three sons, Stanley of Hoisington, Orice Peter of Belle Plaine and Daniel of Newton; three daughters, Charlotte Eileen Shaffer of Tulsa, Okla., Cynthia Lock of Shell Knob, Mo., and Jerusha Harr of Newton; one brother, Lawrence of Colorado Springs, Colo.; four sister, Estalla Brenneman of Leon, Mary Grob of Newton, Leota Spinks of Tonganoxie, and Naomi Pollard of Oklahoma City; 23 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by one son and one brother.
Friends may call from 5 to 9 p.m. today and all day Tuesday at Petersen's Funeral Home. Memorials are suggested to the church.
Newton Kansan, November 4, 1991, page 5.