Luella R. Haverkamp, 87, of Seneca, KS, died Wednesday, July 24, 2002, at the Nemaha Valley Community Hospital in Seneca.

She was born April 21, 1915, on a farm five miles north of Seneca, the daughter of August and Theresia Menke Haverkamp. Luella graduated from St. Mary’s Grade School in St. Benedict. She attended the Sacred Heart Academy in Falls City, NE for two years while the family lived there, and graduated from Frankfort High School in Frankfort, KS. In 1937 she moved to Kansas City, MO, where she attended the Kansas City Business School. She was employed by Hallmark from 1938 to 1944.

During World War II and until 1952, she worked for the War Assets Administration of the U.S. Government in Kansas City. Luella returned home for 10 years to help care for her father after her mother’s death. On February 21, 1962, she returned to Kansas City and worked as a cashier clerk for Phillips Petroleum. In 1974 the Kansas City Office was closed, and she was transferred by the company to Bartlesville, OK. She worked there until her retirement in May of 1984. In the fall of 1986, she returned to live in Seneca.

She was a member of Sts. Peter & Paul Church and the St. Ann’s Altar Society at the church in Seneca. In Bartlesville she helped with the her church’s food distribution to the needy. She enjoyed quilting, knitting, and was a stamp collector.

Survivors are three sisters, Loretta Otting of Seneca, Cecelia Forst of Ft. Lauderdale, FL, and Alma Clark of Atlanta, GA.

Besides her parents, she was preceded in death by a brother, Elmer Haverkamp and two sisters, Rose Koelzer and Marcella Haug.

Mass of Christian burial will be 10:30 AM Saturday, July 27, at Sts. Peter & Paul Church in Seneca. Burial will be in Sacred Heart Cemetery in Baileyville. A prayer service will be held at 2 PM Friday with a rosary at 7 PM Friday at Lauer Funeral Home in Seneca.

Memorials may be given for Sts. Peter & Paul Church, and sent in care of the family.