Funeral service for Vadah A. Herth, of Enid, will be 10 a.m. Friday, Jan. 22, 2010, at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church with Pastor Kenneth Wade officiating. Burial will follow in Memorial Park Cemetery, Enid. Service is under the direction of Henninger-Hinson Funeral Home.
Vadah A. Herth, of Enid OK, was born to Orie and Clara (Kendall) Shelton on August 12, 1911, at the home of her grandparents in Winfield KS. She passed away Saturday, January 16, 2010, at the age of 98. When she was a month old, her mother brought her home on the Frisco, the railroad for which her father worked. She attended Kenwood grade school, Emerson Jr. High, and graduated from Enid High School in 1929. She then graduated from Enid Business College in 1930. Her first place of employment was with W.P. Foster and Howard Oliver, New York Life Insurance Agents. When the owner of the Oxford Hotel hired H.G. Stewart, she became his secretary. In 1937, Vadah began working in the office of Banfield Packing Company. She worked there until her marriage to John "Hank" Herth in Enid on January 9, 1948. In August of that year, they moved to Chickasha OK. Two years later, they returned to Enid. They continued working at Banfield until it closed.
She was preceded in death by her parents, husband Hank, and brother Kendall Shelton.
Vadah is survived by daughter Susan Edwards of Sand Springs OK; son Kenny Herth of Edmond OK; grandchildren Stephanie Govich and husband Mat of Norman OK, James Jeremy Edwards and wife Kristin of Ft. Worth TX, John Jeffrey Edwards and wife Laura of Sand Springs; great-grandchildren Alyx and Ellery Edwards of Sand Springs, Mila Govich of Norman, and Jaden Edwards of Ft. Worth.
