Chase County Kansas Obituaries
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Wunderlich, Jeris Louise
Jeris L. Wunderlich, 26, died Friday, April 13, 2007, in an automobile accident on Highway 150 in Chase County.
Jeris Louise Wunderlich, the daughter of Micky L. and Pamela Dodson Wunderlich Collins, was born Dec. 15, 1980, in Cushing, Okla. She graduated from Chase County High School in 1999.
She was the manager of Caseys General Store in Cottonwood Falls. She was baptized by Rev. John
David Ramsey of the Christ Gospel Ministry in March of 2002. She was a member of the Chase County Chamber of Commerce.
She is survived by her father and step-mother, Micky Lynn and Roma Wunderlich of Howard; her mother and step-father, Pam and Jerry Collins of Matfield Green; two brothers, Michael Wunderlich of Derby and Gabriel Gabe Wunderlich of El Dorado; a step-brother, Craig Collins of Elmdale; her grandmother, Shirley Wunderlich of Piedmont; her great-grandmother, Goldie Dodson of Winfield; and her fiancee, Tim Yette of Cottonwood Falls. She was preceded in death by her step-brother, Darien Miller.
Services will be Thursday, April 19, at the Flint Hills Community Church in Cottonwood Falls with Pastor Rick Smith of the First Baptist Church in Cottonwood Falls. Burial will follow at Prairie Grove Cemetery in rural Cottonwood Falls. The casket will be closed.
A memorial to the Jeris Wunderlich Art Scholarship at Chase County High School has been established and may be sent in care of Brown-Bennett-Alexander Funeral Home, 201 Cherry, Cottonwood Falls, KS 66845.
Jeris Wunderlich, 26, of Cottonwood Falls, died in a two-vehicle collision in the snow on Highway 150, at approximately 5:20 p.m. Friday, April 13,2007.
According to reports from the Chase County Sheriff and the Kansas Highway Patrol, Wunderlich was eastbound in a Chevy sedan on Highway 150 at milepost 8 (10 miles east of Marion), when she lost control of her vehicle in the ice and slush. Her vehicle turned sideways in the roadway in the path of a west-bound semi driven by Dale Tajchman, 39, of Lincolnville.
After the impact, the reports said, both vehicles ended up in the north ditch.
Wunderlich was pronounced dead at the scene. Tajchman was not injured.
Jerry Schwilling,
Chase County Leader-News, Cottonwood Falls, KS, Apr. 19, 2007.