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

Memorial service will be at Cheney Baptist Church, 1502 N. Main, Cheney, at 10:30 a.m. Friday, Jan. 3. Interment will be at a later date in Pioneer Cemetery, Cheney. Wulf-Ast Mortuary was in charge of arrangements.

Chad leaves behind his beloved Shawna Schmidt and her children, Emily and Ean, of Wichita; parents, Verle and Elda Engel of Cheney; 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, Iowa; loving nieces and nephews, Justin (Hannah) Engel, Jace and Summer Jerome, Nicholas and Emily Engel, Allison, Evan and Owen Frazierand 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!