Debra Lea Luke, 60, of Junction City, died Jan. 3, 2015 at Mercy Regional Health Center in Manhattan.
Debra was born Nov. 16, 1954 in Chicago, Ill., the daughter of Edward & Joan (Murray) Haack. She graduated from Bremen High School in Midlothian, Ill. in the Class of 1972.
Debra worked for many years in the Meat Dept. at Dillons in Junction City.
Debra married Robert E. Luke on Nov. 10, 1978 in Las Vegas, NV. He survives.
Other survivors include: a son, Sean Luke and wife Casey, Enterprise; 2 daughters, Sheila Fahey, Manhattan, and Erika Ritschard and husband Jonathan, Virginia Beach, VA; her mother, Joan Wahl, Wheatfield, IN; 2 brothers, Larry Haack, Colorado Springs, CO, and Edward Haack, Joliet, IL; 2 sisters, Dawn Schall, Posen, IL, and Gail Short, Wheatfield, IN; and 8 grandchildren. Debra was preceded in death by her father; and a brother, Jimmy Haack.
The family will greet friends, Thursday, Jan. 8, 2015 from 6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. at Penwell-Gabel Mass Hinitt Chapel in Junction City.
A Celebration Of Life Service will be at 11:00 a.m., Friday, Jan. 9, 2015 in the Family Life Center of the University Christian Church, 2800 Claflin Rd., Manhattan, KS with Senior Minister Barry Park officiating. Memorial contributions may be made to the Debra Lea Luke Memorial Fund, sent in care of the funeral home.
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. You heard me say to you, 'I am going away, and I will come to you.' If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I. And now I have told you before it takes place, so that when it does take place you may believe. John 14:27-29