He married Elizabeth Buller Niles, and they later divorced. Five children - Rachel, Helen, Rebecca Mae (deceased in infancy), Edna and Mark - blessed their 19-year marriage. He interrupted his teaching career to be a research scientist for Honeywell in Minneapolis and returned to Kansas in 1958 to resume his teaching career at Kansas Wesleyan University in Salina. In 1948, he married Lidia Ruth Pagán and taught physics at Bethel College. He also was an avid rock and fossil collector. His equpiment was donated to Kansas Wesleyan University. The MCC project brought medical care to the people of the mountainous interior of Puerto Rico and resulted in the formation of the Aibonito Hospital that has grown and still is in service more than 50 years later.Īs a Ham radio operator, he was a lifetime member of the American Radio Relay League and received a lot of joy from making communication contacts around the world. That experience included projects in six different camps and a two-year assignment in Puerto Rico with the Mennonite Central Committee. During the military draft of World War II, he spent 52 months in Civilian Public Service. He graduated from Bethel College, and also from the University of Arizona, where he received an advanced degree in physics. Throughout his life, he worshiped with various denominations based on his physical location and projects, knowing he served the same God. At age 15, he joined the Eden Mennonite Church near Moundridge. Paul made his first public confession of Jesus Christ as his Savior. He was born on March 23, 1919, to Rachel and Napthali Stucky at their farm southwest of Moundridge.Īt age 12, N. Paul Stucky, 92, passed away on Wednesday (Sept. Kansas farm families spent Father’s Day weekend in the combine, a wheat harvest tradition.N. Hot, dry, windy weather signaled the continued rapid progression of harvest across the state. Some south-central Kansas producers have sunny harvest results to share while empathizing with farmers elsewhere that did not catch the same beneficial rains throughout the growing season. No matter the final yield or the holiday, farm families are working together to maximize the 2022 Kansas wheat crop. James Mosiman had his Arizona landlord in the combine with him when Kansas Wheat staff stopped by the harvest field near Walton in Harvey County. Harvest results are good with yields at 53 to 78 bushels per acre, 14 percent moisture and test weights heavy at 61 to 62 pounds per bushel. In the next field, son Justin was running the air-seeder to plant double-crop soybeans into the wheat stubble. The cutting and planting crew were joined by a load of kids from Boulder and Kansas City and their grandfather, all of whom piled out and climbed into the cab. The grandfather remarked the field trip helped his grandkids see where their bread comes from, yet another family harvest tradition. In the same area near Walton, the Nuss family, alongside Troy Smith, worked together this weekend to get wheat in Harvey County harvested and straw baled for Smith’s cattle. The operation delivers straight to Ardent Mills in nearby Newton, making growing quality wheat a priority. Harvest results thus far are strong with yields at 70 bushels per acre, moisture at 11.2 to 14 percent, test weights heavy at 62 to 63 pounds per bushel and protein at 10.5 to 12 percent.īack in February - after an excruciating Kansas City Chiefs game - the family went and tinkered with a 1968 Case 660 combine sitting in the treeline.
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