Kathryn Elizabeth Wertzbaugher, age 95, passed away, Sunday, December 6,
2015 at Harton Regional Medical Center in Tullahoma, TN. Funeral Services
are scheduled for Saturday, December 12, 2015 at 2 PM at
Kucko-Anthony-Kertesz Funeral Home in Akron, Ohio with burial to follow at
East Akron Cemetery. Visitation with the family will be from 1 PM until
service time. No local services are scheduled.
A native of Akron, Ohio, she was the daughter of the late John B. and Edna
Faye Broughton Ringer. Mrs. Wertzbaugher relocated to Tullahoma to be near
her daughter. She was a staunch Republican and very active in the GOP for
over fifty years. She was the first female city councilwoman in Akron in
1957. She was a precinct committeewoman, member of the Ohio Council of
Republican Women and a member of the Republican Executive Committee. She
was also a member of the Akron Civic Theater Women’s Guild and a member of
Firestone Park Presbyterian Church.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, John
Wertzbaugher and one brother, John B. Ringer Jr.
She is survived by one daughter, Janice Rayburn and her husband, John of
Tullahoma; three grandchildren, Todd Rayburn and his wife, Kelly of Lake
Minneola, FL, Jonathon Rayburn and his wife, Christina of Tampa, FL and Amy
Creasman and her husband, Pat of Longwood, FL and eight great
grandchildren, Tucker and Tanner Rayburn, Devin Uphoff, Jade and Jeremy
Rayburn, Dalton and Dillon DeChristopher and Patrick Creasman Jr.
DAVES-CULBERSTON FUNERAL HOME IS IN CHARGE OF ARRANGEMENTS