Newton kansan obit
She seemed to be loved and appreciated by many of her clients and colleagues.Īfter retirement Judy was asked by Barry Lehman owner of the Newton Breadbasket what she was going to do? She said I want to care for some babies. She served the State 28 years retiring in 2008.
She finished her education at Wichita State University in the spring of 1980, graduating Magna cum laude, and was hired by the State of Kansas as a Court Services Officer a month prior to receiving her diploma. In 1972-74 she was a resident Director of Goering Hall (men’s dormitory) at Bethel College. They met on Flag day 1964, engaged on July 4, and were Married on October 11, 1964. Orton fell under her spell and asked her to write a letter to his neighbor boy, Richard, stationed at Fort Carson, Colorado. Her life changed dramatically at Axtel when A.L. She started to work at Wilson Drug, then Axtell Christian Hospital in Newton. She attended Potwin schools and graduated in 1963 from Potwin High. The Longs were farmers in the Potwin area and one of Judy’s earliest memories may have been sitting on the lap of a German POW who was assisting her father with harvest. She leaves two granddaughters (Jessi and Kelly Coleman) and two grandsons ( Dylan and Connor Hultman) and many special friends. She is survived by a sister Janet Gibson of Hutchinson, Kansas, her husband Richard McDiffett Newton, daughters Holly McDiffett-Mahaffey (Terri) of Half Moon Bay, California, Adrianne Hultman of Newton, and a son Tyler R. Judy (Long) McDiffett, was born Septemat St.