Georgie L. Wessel, 76, of Seneca, Kansas, died Thursday, March 15, 2001, at a Topeka hospital. She had been fighting cancer for the past six years.

She was born March 8, 1925, in Decatur, Arkansas, the daughter of Noah B. and June Helen Walklin Reed. Her father worked for the railroad and was in the service so she lived and went to school in many different places.

She married Willis Kenworthy on October 14, 1941, in Axtell. They lived in Axtell where she worked at the Axtell Hospital as a cook and also operated the City Café. Her husband Willis preceded her in death on September 17, 1953.

On June 14, 1975, she married Andrew Wessel at St. Bede’s Church in Kelly. They lived on and worked the Wessel family farm southwest of Kelly. Georgie helped with the milking on the farm. In June of 2000, they moved to Seneca. Andrew survives of the home in Seneca.

She was a member of St. Bede’s Church in Kelly and the Altar Society at the church, and a charter member of the Ladies Auxiliary of the Fraternal Order of Eagles #1915 in Marysville. She liked crafts, quilting, crocheting, and dolls. She donated her handmade crafts to the church. Georgie also enjoyed sewing for her family. She loved birds, fed them, and was an avid birdwatcher.

Survivors besides her husband Andrew are two sons, George Kenworthy of Axtell and David Kenworthy of Cooper, Texas; a daughter, Willa Lee Meiries of Axtell; three brothers, Jack Reed of Boise, Idaho, John Reed of Granby, Missouri, and Charles Reed of Wichita; four sisters, Betty Black of Wilder, Idaho, Ella Mae Vansant of Claremore, Oklahoma, Jimmy Banks and Nora Smith, both of Boise, Idaho; four grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

Besides her first husband Willis, she was preceded in death by a brother, Bud Reed.

Mass of Christian Burial will be 1:30 PM Saturday at St. Bede’s Church in Kelly. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Rosaries will be prayed at 3 & 8 PM Friday at Lauer Funeral Home in Seneca.

Memorials may be given for St. Bede’s Church or the American Cancer Society, and sent in care of the family.