VICKI KLASSEN

Funeral for Victoria Ann "Vicki" Klassen of Newton, Kan., will be held at 10 a.m. today at Petersen Funeral Chapel in Newton. The Revs. Christian Tirre and Joyce Homes will officiate. Private burial will be in Newton.

Klassen, 76, died Monday, Aug. 17, 1998, at HCA Wesley Medical Center in Wichita, Kan.

She was born Nov. 4, 1921, in Emporia, Kan., daughter of Victor and Ann Nanninga Trusler. She and Dr. Daniel S. Klassen were married in 1948 in Emporia. He died Dec. 10, 1981.

Klassen had taught school at Cimarron and Newton. She moved to Newton in 1945. She was a member of First United Church of Christ, Ladies Reading Circle, and P.E.O.

Survivors include two daughters, Barbara Klassen of Silver Plume, Colo., Kathleen Brown of Cape Girardeau; and two grandchildren.