Jule Winters

Jule WInters, 91, Hill City, passed away on September 2, 2023, at the Graham County Hospital in Hill City, Kansas.

He was born May 30, 1932, in Webster, Kansas, to George and Rose (Folsom) Winters.

Jule attended school in Webster and graduated from Stockton High School in 1950. He married Elizabeth (Betty) Lala on December 13, 1952, in Phillipsburg, Kansas. They had two children: Linda Eileen and Steven Jule. Jule and Betty were married for almost 65 years when Betty passed away in 2017.

Jule was young when he took his first job setting pins at the bowling alley. He continued working throughout school and took a job in the oil field after high school. His job required the family to move frequently, and they lived in Stockton, Lyons, Hays, Great Bend, Logan, Madison, and Russell before settling in Hill City to open Winters Conoco at the corner of 6th and Main. They later moved to the corner of 4th and Main to become Winters Fina and then Winters Texaco. To fill his time in his later years, Jule returned to work as the night cashier at Wings Spirits.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Betty; parents, George and Rose; stepfather, Victor Brown; and siblings Viola Paulson, Billy Winters, Ivan Winters, and an infant sister.

He is survived by a daughter, Linda Winters of Hill City; a son, Steven Winters of Bogue; four grandchildren including BJ Hoeting, Webster; 9 great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren Zach Simite, Lexington, Nebraska, and Axen and Atlee Riggins, Hill City; sister Georgia Buttermore, Denver, Colorado, Alva Winters, Hill City, and Lennie Winters, Imperial, Nebraska; and several nieces, nephews, and cousins.

A private Memorial Service will be held later, with burial at Ash Rock Cemetery in rural Rooks County.

Memorials are suggested to Friends of Webster State Park and can be sent in care of Stinemetz Funeral Home, 522 N. Pomeroy Avenue, Hill City, KS 67642.