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Georgia Marshall-Graham
JUNCTION CITY -- Georgia Mae Marshall-Graham, 83, homemaker, of Junction City, died May 20, 2001, at Good Samaritan Center.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday in Highland Cemetery
at Winfield. Johnson Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
A memorial has been established with the Area Agency on Aging, 437 Houston, Manhattan, KS 66502.
Marshall-Graham was born Nov. 12, 1917, in Winfield, to Lilian (Barns) and George Knuckey.
Her first husband, John Marshall, died in 1945.
She later married Arthur Graham who died in 1981.
Survivors include two sons, John Marshall, Junction City, and David Marshall, Lyons; 10 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Mollie Hauenstein
MOLINE -- Mollie Ellen Hauenstein, 92, of Moline, died May 18, 2001, at Mercy Hospital in Independence.
Services were at 1 p.m. May 21 in Moline Cemetery. The Rev. Ted Smith officiated.
A memorial has been established with the Moline Baptist Church. Contributions may be made through Graves-Baird Funeral Home in Sedan.
Hauenstein was born March 7, 1909, at Red Field, to Letha Alma (Northcutt) and Israel Spittler.
On Nov. 20, 1975, she married Stanley Hauenstein in Las Vegas. He died March 31, 1992.
Hauenstein was a retired telephone operator and a member of the Moline Baptist Church.
Survivors include a daughter, Velma Buettell, Moline, and three grandchildren.
Carolyn Bridenstine
STILLWATER, Okla. -- Carolyn Rowena Bridenstine, 85, of Edina, Minn., died May 15, 2001, in Edina.
Services were at 10:30 a.m. May 21 in Friends Chapel Church in Stillwater. Pastor Merl Kinser officiated. Burial was in Oak Grove Cemetery
in Coyle, Okla.
Strode Funeral Home, Stillwater, was in charge of arrangements.
Bridenstine was born March 14, 1916, near Haviland, to Edith Marie (Allen) and Henry E. Davis. She graduated from Haviland High School in 1934 and from Friends Bible College and earned a teacherıs certificate from Fort Hays State College. She taught school near Haviland in 1936 and 1937.
On Aug. 21, 1938, she married Emmett Valdemar Bridenstine in Haviland. They lived in Wichita until her husband finished his degree at Friends University.
Bridenstine, a homemaker, assisted her husband in his ministry at Timbercreek Friends Church near Atlanta from 1940 to 1943. They later served at Cold Springs, Okla., Roosevelt, Okla., Topeka, Great Bend, Coyle, Okla., and Wyandotte, Okla.
Her husband died April 20, 2000. In July she moved from Guthrie, Okla., to Edina to be near family.
She was a member of the Friends Chapel Church, Farm Club, and Womenıs Christian Temperance Union Missionary Society.
Survivors include two sons, Stanley Bridenstine, Riverside, Calif., and Lester Bridenstine, Edina, Minn.; a sister, Delpha Clarkson, Pratt; a brother, Justin Davis, Weatherford, Okla.; five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Barbara Clemons
DODGE CITY - Barbara L. Clemons, 71, of Dodge City, died May 17, 2001, at Trinity Manor in Dodge City.
Memorial services were at 2 p.m. May 21 at Burkhart Funeral Chapel in Dodge City. The Rev. Jeff Hiers presided.
Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of the Prairie and the Ford County Humane Society through Burkhart Funeral Chapel, 1901 N. 14th Ave., Dodge City, KS 67801.
Clemons was born June 22, 1929, in Winfield, to Bessie (Gleason) and Richard Doty. She graduated from Winfield High School before moving to California.
There she met Francis M. "Jack" Clemons whom she married Dec. 4, 1948, in San Diego. Because he was in the Army, they lived many places, including Germany, Georgia and Minnesota.
After moving to Dodge City in 1965, Clemons went to work at the First National Bank. She retired as a loan officer in 1991 after 26 years of service. She then worked with her daughter and son-in-law at Boyds RV-Boothill Marine from 1992 until April 2001.
Her husband died Aug. 20, 2000.
Survivors include two daughters, Debbie Droste, Dodge City, and Cheryl Eddy, Carry, Ill.; and two grandchildren.
Eva Hall
Services for Eva Lucille Hall were held at 2 p.m May 21, 2001, in Colonial Chapel of Miles Funeral Service. The Rev. Rick Thornton officiated. Burial was in Memorial Lawn Cemetery
near Arkansas City.
Irma Scholfield was the organist. Music included "Amazing Grace" and "Just as I Am."
Honorary casket bearers were Sharon Crittendon, Jean Ehmke, Ruth Ehmke, Irma Jenkins, Elizabeth "Babe" King, Nellie McMurray, Evelyn Morris and Maxine Simmons.
Casket bearers were Donald Ehmke, Greg Koman, Roger Lungren, Don Mitzner, Bill Morris and Bill Thornton.
A memorial has been established with the William Newton Hospital Auxiliary.
John Merritt
Services for John Arthur Merritt were held at 10:30 a.m. May 21, 2001, at the First Church of the Nazarene. The Revs. Bill Springer and Thomas Mitchell officiated. Burial was in Maple City Cemetery.
Randy Gipson played "Amazing Grace" on the bagpipes.
"Angels in the Room" and "God Knows Every Heartache," written by Kay Perdaris, were performed by Sherri Beebe, Diane Dean, Lisa Delgado, Pam Doyle, Connie Lawson, Perdaris, Jim Phillips and Greg Smyer.
Casket bearers were Jesse Clingingbeard, Derek Dean, Bill Merritt Jr., Brandon Merritt, Buddy Merritt, Mark Merritt and David Wylie.
A memorial has been established with the Benevolence Fund of the Pentecostal Church of God in the Oklahoma District.
Miles Funeral Service was in charge of arrangements.
Donald Voorhees
NEWLAND, N.C. - Donald Edwin Voorhees Sr., 70, longtime resident of Winfield, died May 16, 2001, in Newland.
Services were to be at 10 a.m. today in Cochran Mortuary's Chapel of the Roses, Wichita.
Memorial contributions are suggested to the Gerald Mann Ministries, P.O. Box 160100, Austin, TX 78716.
Voorhees, a retired health care administrator, was born in Sedgwick. He worked in Hutchinson before moving to North Carolina.
Survivors include his wife, Laurene Voorhees, Newland; a son Ross Voorhees, Wichita; a daughter, Susan Wade, Eureka; a brother, Raymond Voorhees, Seattle, Wash.; a sister, Marjeanne Linnebur, Wichita; 14 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
A son, Donald Voorhees Jr., and a daughter, Nancy Maston, preceded him in death.
Mary Dodson
ARKANSAS CITY - Mary Helen Dodson, 78, of Arkansas City, died May 22, 2001, at South Central Kansas Regional Medical Center.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Friday at Rindt-Erdman Funeral Home. The Rev. Lance Carrithers will officiate. Cremation will follow.
Memorials have been established with South Central Kansas Regional Medical Center and the First United Methodist Church. Contributions may be made through the funeral home.
Dodson was born May 16, 1923, in Stewartsville, Ind., to Eloise (Schutz) and E.D. "Bill" Hollis. She graduated from Arkansas City High School in 1941.
On March 18, 1941, she married H.L. "Silver" Dodson in Arkansas City.
She worked as a clerk for J.C. Penney and Union State Bank and as a bookkeeper for Samford Insurance Co. and Dodson Plumbing.
Dodson was a member of the First United Methodist Church, United Methodist Women, Esther Circle, Hypatia Club, South Central Kansas Regional Medical Center Auxiliary, Ark City Music Club, Shelton Beaty American Legion Post 18 and American Legion Auxiliary 8 & 40 Club.
Survivors include her husband, Silver Dodson, Arkansas City; a daughter, Lynn Reed, Winfield; and one grandson.
Lyndon Symes
WICHITA - Lyndon A. Symes, 91, of Wichita, formerly of Blackwell and Arkansas City, died May 20, 2001, in Wichita.
A memorial service will be held Thursday at 1:30 p.m. at Countryside Christian Church. Old Mission Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.
Memorial contributions may be made to the church.
Symes was born Feb. 8, 1910, in Blackwell, to Naomi Pearl (Flemming) and Joseph Lyndon Symes. On June 10, 1934, he married Juanita Webb in Arkansas City.
He was employed by the Arkansas City Police Department from 1936 until 1941 and also spent a brief time with the border patrol in Texas. During World War II he was a captain in plant protection at Beech Aircraft.
In 1945 Symes obtained a sales and broker's license in real estate and remained in that profession until retiring from CKG in 1988.
He was a member of the Masonic Blue Lodge in Arkansas City, Wichita Consistory and Midian Shrine.
Survivors include his wife, Juanita Symes, Wichita; a son, Paul Symes, Udall; a brother, Glenn Symes, Topeka; a sister, Josephine Riles, Las Cruces, N.M.; two granddaughters and five great-grandchildren.
