Chad Arthur EngelWichita, KS

CHAD ARTHUR ENGEL MEMORIAL SERVICE

Cheney Baptist Church 1502 N. Main St.,Cheney, Kansas January 3, 2025, 10:30 a.m. Interment at a later date:Pioneer Cemetery, Cheney Kansas.

CHAD ARTHUR ENGEL was born July 3, 1976, to the Pope family in Atlantic, Iowa, and lovingly adopted by the Engel family on March 12, 1984.  He fought his last battle with the fierce enemy, cancer, on December 21, 2024, at the age of 48.

Chad leaves behind his beloved Shawna Schmidt and her children, Emily and Ean, of Wichita, KS; parents Verle and Elda Engel of Cheney, KS; sister Jennie Engel of Wichita; brother Nathan (Amanda) Engel of Cheney; birth family: mother Lori Pope, and brother and sister Steven and Katie Frazier of Council Bluffs, IA; loving nieces and nephews: Justin (Hannah) Engel; Jace and Summer Jerome; Nicholas and Emily Engel; Allison, Evan , and Owen Frazier; Rylan, Ka’Mar, and  XyLeah Frazier; loving aunts and uncles, and many dear friends.  Chad was preceded in death by his nephew, Brice Grossman, and birth father Kenny Pope.

Chad was a skilled and hard-as-nails construction worker and  roofer, always working with excellence.  He loved mechanical things, tinkering with cars and fast motorcycles.  He loved his dogs almost as much as his people.  He loved open air and for his hands to be busy.

Chad loved to live fast and hard, always on the edge of safety, generous to others to the point of going without himself.  Fast and hard is how he loved, how he learned, and how he fought many fierce enemies in his life.  Fast and hard is how he loved his Savior, Jesus Christ, who meets him now with, “Well done, Chad Arthur Engel, good and faithful Warrior, Man of Integrity, My Messenger!”

Chad’s message, his legacy, in his own words: “I believe in God as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by Him I see everything else.”  Battle done!  Victory won!

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