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Goldie Schoonover
Goldie Schoonover, 80, of Winfield, formerly of Clearwater, died July 14, 1999, at Wesley Medical Center in Wichita.
Services will be held at 11 a.m. today in Clearwater Cemetery. Wayland Whitlow will officiate. Webb Mortuary, Clearwater, is in charge of arrangements.
A memorial has been established with the Clearwater Ambulance Service, P.O. Box 453, Clearwater, KS 67026.
Schoonover was born July 15, 1918, in Covington, Ind., to George M. and Viola (Smith) Watts. She attended school in the Covington area. When she was 17, she moved to Champaign, Ill., where she met her husband, Leverett P. Schoonover. They married July 23, 1936, in Monticello, Ill.
The Schoonovers made their home in the Champaign area for much of their marriage. A homemaker, Schoonover raised her husband's youngest brother along with her own six children.
In the 1950s she began working outside the home in a laundry. Over the years, she also worked as a hotel maid, waitress and cook. Following her husband's death in 1973, Schoonover moved to Aurora, Ill., and was employed in the laundry of Mooseheart Children's Home in Batavia, Ill. She retired in 1980.
In 1981 she moved to Clearwater where she was active at the Senior Citizens Golden Age Center. For several years she worked as a cook at Ninnescah Manor Inc.
In September 1998 she moved to Walnut Towers in Winfield.
Survivors include a son, Donald Schoonover, Wichita; twin daughters, Earlene Schoonover, Winfield, and Darlene Green, Arkansas City; a sister, Helen McCreary, Richton Park, Ill.; 18 grandchildren, 24 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.
A son, Luke Schoonover, died in January 1991 and a daughter, Doris Webster, died in December 1991. Another daughter, Mary Sarver, died in January 1992. Amuel Schoonover, whom she had raised as a son, died in 1983.
Emery Booher
GROSSE POINTE WOODS, Mich. - Emery F. Booher, 91, of Grosse Pointe Woods, formerly of Dexter, died July 16, 1999, at his home.
Services were held at 10 a.m. July 19 in Dexter Cemetery. Dois Nix officiated. Graves Funeral Home of Caney was in charge of arrangements.
Booher was born Aug. 22, 1907, in Cedar Vale, to Sam J. and Martha (Heistand) Booher. When he was a small boy, his family moved to Dexter where he graduated from Dexter High School in 1927. He was inducted into the service and discharged because of a heart ailment.
Booher moved to Detroit to become an automobile salesman.
On Jan. 1, 1937, he married Lorene Williams. She died Oct. 19, 1993.
Survivors include a brother, Ernest Booher, Sedan; and three sisters, Opal Todd, Sedan, Louise White, Tyler, Texas, and Maudine Johnson, Elk City.
Gwenda Elliott
EMPORIA - Gwenda Lynn Elliott, 72, of Emporia, died July 15, 1999, at Holiday Resort in Emporia.
Services were held at 10 a.m. July 17 at Roberts-Blue-Barnett Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Dale Pracht officiated. Burial was in Highland Cemetery
in Ottawa.
A memorial has been established with the Newman Hospital Division of Nursing. Contributions may be made through the funeral home.
Elliott was born Sept. 11, 1926, in Newton, to Henry Howard and Emma Ruth (McClenahan) Braum. She graduated from Emporia High School and Newman Hospital School of Nursing in Emporia.
On June 1, 1951, she married John R. Elliott. He died in 1952.
Elliott began her nursing career as head nurse of obstetrics at Newman. She continued to work there while getting a nursing degree from the University of Kansas. She began to teach obstetrical nursing in 1952. In the 1960s she switched to surgical nursing. She later received a master's degree in counselor education from Emporia State University.
In 1992, she was named Employee of the Year at Newman Hospital. After retiring in 1993 after 46 years of service, she continued to work in the nursing school library.
Elliott was a member of the Newman School of Nursing Alumni Association.
Survivors include a son, John R. Elliott Jr., Winfield; a brother, William "Bill" Braum, Tuttle, Okla., a sister, Shirley Robinson, Hays; two grandchildren and a great-grandchild.
Clyde Hurst
POND CREEK, Okla. - Sterling Clyde Hurst of Pond Creek, Okla., died on his 90th birthday, July 16, 1999.
Services were held at 10 a.m. July 19 at the First Christian Church in Pond Creek. The Rev. Sherrie Shaw officiated. Burial was in Pond Creek Cemetery
under the direction of Wilson Funeral Home.
Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice Circle of Love through the funeral home.
Hurst was born July 16, 1909, in Madill, Okla., to Robert Love and Addie Mae (Eddington) Hurst. He attended Antioch school and received his general education diploma.
On July 29, 1928, he married Gertrude Amanda Fowler in Madill. They lived in various places while he worked for Texaco. They made their home in Salem, Ill., for eight years before moving to Davenport, Okla., in 1948 and then to Winfield. Hurst worked at Southwestern College from 1958 to 1979. After his retirement, the Hursts moved to Pond Creek from Davenport, Okla., in 1987.
Hurst was a member of the First Christian Church of Pond Creek and a member and past master of Lodge 233 Ancient Free & Accepted Masons of Burden.
Survivors include his wife, Gertrude Hurst, Pond Creek; a son, Robert "Bob" Hurst, Pond Creek; a daughter, Wanda Hurst Hicks, Conover, N.C.; two sisters, Vertie Lee Vandervort, Austin, Texas, and Opal Marie Rogers, Tempe, Ariz.; seven grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
Daniel MacKillop
Dr. Daniel MacKillop, 88, of Winfield, died July 15, 1999, at Winfield Rest Haven.
Following cremation, memorial services were held at 10 a.m. July 18 in Highland Cemetery.
A memorial has been established with the First Presbyterian Church. Contributions may be made through Swisher-Taylor & Morris Funeral Home.
MacKillop was born June 22, 1911, in Cambridge, Mass., to Daniel and Christine (MacKay) MacKillop.
On May 3, 1941, he married Lou Linehan in Brighton, Mass. She died March 1, 1984.
After graduating from high school, MacKillop attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Tufts University Medical School. After graduating from Tufts in 1938, he served his internship in Lewiston, Maine. He then returned to Cambridge where he was in general practice.
During World War II, he served on the ice breaker Comanche I as a medical officer. After the war he served as a radiologist for the public health service for 28 years until his retirement in 1962.
MacKillop then moved to Winfield and worked as a radiologist at Snyder Clinic, William Newton Memorial Hospital, Winfield State Hospital and Training Center, Arkansas City's hospital and Wellington's osteopathic hospital. He retired in September 1975.
Survivors include a son, Dan MacKillop, Williston, Fla.; a daughter, Laura Scott, Norwalk, Conn.; two sisters, Dorothy Shipton, Shirley Center, Mass., and Katherine Robinson, Punta Gorda, Fla.; and two grandchildren.
A son, Robert, preceded him in death.
Don Murphy
MOLINE - Don A. Murphy Jr., 51, of Moline, died July 16, 1999, at the Cancer Treatment Center in Tulsa, Okla.
Services were held at 10 a.m. July 19 at Zimmerman Funeral Home in Howard. Pastor Steve Bliss officiated. Burial was in Mount Olivet Cemetery
in Moline.
A memorial has been established with the Elk County Rodeo Association. Contributions may be made through the funeral home.
Murphy was born June 27, 1948, in Independence, to Don Arthur and Ruth Evelyn (Welch) Murphy. He attended Moline schools and graduated from Moline High School in May 1966.
Murphy attended Pittsburg State University before joining the U.S. Navy in 1968. He served in the Navy Seabees for two tours of duty during the Vietnam War.
On Nov. 7, 1970, he married Jeanetta Sue Sallee in Moline. He began working as a lineman for Santa Fe Railway in 1970 and later became a communications engineer. He remained with the railroad until 1990 when he joined his brother in the fuel jobber business in Moline.
Murphy was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church and Ferguson-Spease American Legion Post 388, both of Moline, and the Kansas Oil Marketers Association.
Survivors include his wife, Jeanetta Murphy, Moline; two daughters, Janelle Oxford, Winfield, and Jackie Murphy, Moline; his mother, Ruth Murphy, and a brother, Michael Murphy, both of Moline; two sisters, Margaret Gard, El Dorado, and Patricia Arnold, Owasso, Okla.; and one grandson.
Bonnie Morledge
HUTCHINSON - Bonnie Jacobs Morledge, 72, of Hutchinson, formerly of Winfield, died July 16, 1999, in the Hutchinson hospital following an illness of several months.
Services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday in Highland Cemetery
at Winfield.
Friends may call at Arnold Moore Funeral Service of Bartlesville, Okla., until 9 tonight.
Morledge was born April 20, 1927, in Foraker, Okla., to Harry and Ila Maybell (Sharp) Jacobs. She attended Foraker schools and graduated from high school in 1944. She graduated from Southwestern College with a bachelor's degree in music education in 1949.
On June 5, 1949, she married Jack Duncan Morledge in Winfield where they lived for a year. In Stillwater, Okla., where they lived for two years, Morledge worked as a bookkeeper at Oklahoma State University.
The Morledge family also resided in Jefferson City, Mo., Mexico, Mo., and Kansas City, Mo., before moving to Hutchinson where they had lived for the past 28 years.
Morledge was employed by the state of Kansas in job insurance and job services for six years. She had also worked as an employment counselor for inmates being paroled from the Kansas State Industrial Reformatory.
Survivors include her husband, Jack Morledge, Hutchinson; a daughter, Grace Morledge, Pine Grove, Calif.; and two grandsons.
Wayland Baker
Wayland J. Baker, 84, of 2006 W. Ninth, Winfield, died July 19, 1999, at his home.
Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Thursday in the Memorial Lawn Cemetery
chapel north of Arkansas City. Masonic and military rites will be performed.
Friends may call at Miles Funeral Service until 9 p.m. today.
Memorials have been established with Hospice Inc. and the First Christian Church.
Baker was born March 20, 1915, at Arkansas City, to Grover C. and Stella Victoria (Mayhill) Baker. He attended Arkansas City schools and graduated from Arkansas City High School in 1933.
He worked for Jack Lane Chevrolet and later for Beech Aircraft Co. in Wichita.
On Oct. 3, 1940, he married Charlotte Marcele Tanquary, and they resided in Arkansas City.
During World War II, Baker served as a medic with the U.S. Army in the Asian theatre.
Baker was then employed in civil service as an engineer at McConnell Air Force Base. They lived in Wichita and Leavenworth before moving to Winfield in 1948. He retired from civil service in 1970.
His wife preceded him in death on April 3, 1999.
Baker was a longtime member of the First Christian Church, Winfield Masonic Lodge and American Legion Post 10.
Survivors include a son, Donald Keith Baker, Clay Center; four brothers, Larnard Baker, Edmond, Okla., Carl Baker, El Dorado, Ben Baker, Arkansas City, and Franklin Baker, Tulsa, Okla.; and three grandchildren.
