Johnny Calvin Funk

Funeral services for Johnny Calvin Funk, 88, lifelong Corn resident, will be at 10 a.m. Saturday in the Corn Mennonite Brethren Church, officiated by Rev. Tim Sandy and Rev. Ken Gardner.

Funk died Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014, in the Corn Heritage Village in Corn. He was born Dec. 12, 1926 in Corn, the son of Cornelius and Lydia (Schmidt) Funk.

He was raised on a farm in Washita County near Corn and attended Greenfield Country School before going to Corn Bible Academy, where he graduated in 1945.

He married Viola Elizabeth Fast on Aug. 22, 1954 in Hooker and had spent most of his life farming and doing carpentry work.

In his early years he would spend time working in the panhandle of Oklahoma doing farm labor for others.

Funk was a longtime active and faithful member of the Mennonite Brethren Church; he was a lay pastor and pastored for several years at the Gotebo Community Church.

Preceding him in death were his parents; four sisters, an infant Annie Funk, Leona Funk, Erna Funk and Adina Dalke; and two brothers, Cornelius Frank and Orlando Funk.

Survivors include his wife of more than 60 years, Viola, of the home; two daughters, Martha Archuleta and her husband, William, of Salt Lake City, Utah and Lillian Martens and her husband, David, of Hillsboro, Kan.; two sons, Calvin Funk and his wife, Pam, of Weatherford, and Charles Funk, of Corn; two brothers, Paul Funk and his wife, Rosell, of Inman, Kan., and Dannie Funk, of Olathe, Kan.; a sister-in-law, Rose Funk-Epp, of Buhler, Kan.; seven grandchildren, Colby Funk and his wife, Jamee, of Whitewater, Kan., Erin Funk, of Weatherford, Ryan Martens, of Fresno, Calif., Kristen Martens and Shannon Martens, both of Hillsboro, Kan., Autumn Archuleta and Tristen Archuleta, both of Salt Lake City, Utah.

Burial will conclude in the Corn Cemetery, under the direction of Kiesau-Lee Funeral Home in Clinton.