Viola V (Nightingale) Wiggers

Viola V. Wiggers, 87, died November 27, 2006 at Pleasant View Home, Inman, where she had resided since October. She was previously a resident of Moundridge and Halstead.

She was born May 19, 1919 at Protection, Kansas to Fred J. and Anna Ratzlaff Nightingale. She married Arnold Fred Wiggers on May 19, 1940 at Fredonia. He died January 26, 2002. She was a homemaker and a member of Gardenview Mennonite Church, Halstead.

Survivors: sons, Kenneth Wiggers, Greely, Colorado and Wilbur Wiggers, Grifton,N. C.; daughters, Louise Ratzlaff, Durham and Jane Unruh, Honey Grove, Texas; sisters, Elsie Johonson, Scott City; Edna Frank, Moundridge; Adalla Johnson, Halstead; Velma Decker, Lehigh and Virgie Koehn, West Point; 11 grandchildren and 18 great grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by brothers, Fred Jr. and Elmer Nightingale and sisters, Gladys Leatherman, Eleanor Ratzloff, Marie Buller, Hattie Unruh and Elda Nichols.

Services were November 30 at the church with Ministers Merle Wenger and Larry Koehn officiating. Burial was at Gardenview Church Cemetery.