Wandling, Kermit F.

Passed: 1957-02-23

Age: 48

Source: Jackson Herald

Death Notice: 1957-03-01

Obituary Date:

Information: Kermit F. Wandling, 48-year-old President of the County Sunday School Council and Church Association, died at his home here Saturday night a few minutes after he was stricken with a heart attack in his car in front of the Ripley postoffice.  He was sitting in the parked car when the attach struck him, and Mrs. Wandling drove the car to their home and he died just after he had been taken into the house.  He had returned late Saturday afternoon from Weirton where he had visited a son and after dinner they had driven into the downtown section.  He had been suffering from a heart ailment for some time but had given no indication the condition was any worse than usual.  He was a member of the Ripley E.U.B. church, Kenna Grange, Paradise Rebekah Lodge, the Odd Fellows, the Modern Woodmen, the Ripley Masonic Lodge, the Ripley Fire Department and was the Vice President of the Band Boosters Club.  For 10 years he was a school bus driver in Jackson county.      He was born at Given on November 20, 1908, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Homer F. Wandling, who are now residents of Ripley.  On July 27, 1929 he married Marie Rankin, who survives, as do the following: two sons, Allen of Weirton and Carl of Ripley; a daughter, Blondis of Charleston; two brothers, Clair of Dunbar and Cleo of California; two sisters, Mrs. Mattie Miller of Baltimore and Mrs. Mildred Walker of Cleveland, and his parents.  The funeral service was held on Tuesday afternoon at the Ripley E. U. B. church with Rev. Homer Hicks officiating and the burial with the Parsons funeral directors in charge was in the Fairplain cemetery.