Cleta Raine

   Cleta Delores Shultz Raine passed away on Saturday (March 30, 2024) at Wellsprings of Westmoreland.  She was born in a stone house in Wamego, Kansas, to Charles Dana and Margaret (Wyker) Shultz on a cold day on December 13, 1934.

   She attended Wamego Grade school until 2nd grade.  Her parents moved to Wichita and she attended school at Planeview and Herrington. While in the 6th grade the family returned to Wamego.  Cleta graduated in May of 1952.  After graduation she worked in Topeka for National Life and Accident Insurance Company before returning to the farm with her husband.  Harold and Cleta were married on April 8, 1956, in the Wamego First United Methodist Church.  They returned to the Raine family farm in Wamego where Harold was born and raised.  Cleta was a farm wife and stay at home mom till the boys were in school then worked at a dry cleaner in Manhattan, KS.  In 1979 she started a 17 year career working for the Student Finance Assistance office at Kansas State University, retiring in 1996 as a student loan counselor.

   She was a member and active in the First United Methodist Church serving on many Church Committees.  The most recent was a Building project to add on to the Church and assisted with the AWANA Group.

   She worked as a missionary with the First Mercedes Christian Church, in Mercedes, Texas, during the years Harold and Cleta went to Texas for the winters making many lifelong friends.  She belonged to other clubs but didn’t want any listed. For God knew her failures and successes and that was all that mattered.

   Her husband of 57 years, Harold, preceded her in death in 2013.  They have two sons, Michael Allen Raine and Bryan Scott Raine and his wife Shelly; three granddaughters, Sasha , Laela, and Alize Raine, and one grandson, Anthony Raine, all of Wamego; and many other nieces and nephews.  They have brought much life and happiness into her life.  She thanked God in every prayer for my family.

   All of her siblings preceded her in death, three sisters, Alice Ballinger of Texas, Nadine Moeller of Gladstone, Missouri, and Jean Breymeyer of Wamego and one brother, Don Shultz of Topeka.  

   Private burial will be in the Wamego City Cemetery. 

   A Celebration of Life will be held Thursday morning (April 4, 2024) at 11:00 at the Wamego First United Methodist Church, 600 Lincoln, Wamego, KS with Pastor Alex Rossow officiating.  Friends may greet and talk with the family after the service.  

  Memorials may be given to the First United Methodist Church, Wamego Public Library or to the Wounded Warriors Project.  Please make check payable to the preferred organization and those may be sent in care of Campanella and Stewart Funeral Home, P. O. Box 48, Wamego, KS 66547.  Online condolences may be made at www.campanellastewart.com.