Laverna I. Ernst, 100, Payson, Arizona, died October 13, 2025.

She was born on January 19, 1925, to Clinton and Dorothy (Winteroth) Bistline in Detroit, Kansas, in Dickinson County. She attended grade school at Detroit and graduated from High School at Chapman, Kansas. She went to McPherson College for a Teaching Certificate and taught school for one year. She then did clerical work on the U.S. Air Base at Kearney, Nebraska.

Laverna married Walter Ernst on May 27, 1945, in Detroit, Kansas. They spent all their married life in Enterprise, Kansas. She worked at the J. B. Ehrsam & Sons Manufacturing business in the Blue Print Department in Enterprise and later at Abilene, Kansas, until her retirement.

She was a member of the Detroit Evangelical United Brethren Church and then the United

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