Thomas Krotz

Services will be scheduled later for Durham native Thomas R. Krotz, 72, who died Jan. 4 at his home in Newton.

Born July 12, 1952, in Wichita to Frank and Petrona (Rudolph) Krotz, he graduated from Hillsboro High School in 1970, worked as an aircraft sheet metal mechanic and farm equipment assembler, and married Patricia Fink on Nov. 8, 1975. She died in 2021.

Son Brian, second wife Sue, and brothers Florian and Edward also preceded him in death.

Survivors include daughter Wendy Macoubrie of Spring Hill; five grandchildren; and three sisters, Margie, Mary, and Delores.