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Mary Jo Williams
Mary Jo Williams, 84, a resident of Winfield Rest Haven, died May 12, 2002, at William Newton Hospital.
Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday in Highland Cemetery. Friends may call at Swisher-Taylor & Morris Funeral Home Tuesday from 2 to 8 p.m.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Winfield Arts and Humanities Council or the Cowley County Humane Society.
Williams was born Oct. 8, 1917, in Winfield, to Florence (Mark) and George Williams. She was raised in Winfield and graduated from Winfield High School in 1936.
She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Bethany College and a master's degree from Emporia State University.
She had additional study at the University of California, Los Angeles, the Amoco Workshop, the American Academy of Art in Chicago, the Art Students League, New York, the Wichita Art Museum and the Institute Allende, Mexico.
She studied privately with Birger Sandzen, Lois Bosa, William McNutty, Guy Wiggins, Arthur Hall and Grace Raymond.
Williams taught art in junior and senior high schools in several Kansas communities. She was an art teacher and director of art education in the Winfield public schools from 1943 to 1963.
She was also head of the art education program at Emporia State University, art instructor and department head at Hockaday Junior College in Dallas, assistant professor of art at Minot State College, Minot, N.D., and assistant professor of art at Lincoln University, Jefferson City, Mo.
Williams won many awards in local, state and national art shows and had several one-person shows.
She is included in the “International Who's Who in Art & Antiques,” “The World Who's Who of Women,” “Personalities of the West and Midwest” and “Community Leaders and Noteworthy Americans.”
Williams retired from Lincoln University and moved to Topeka. She returned to Winfield in 1998.
Survivors include two nephews, Roger Williams, Winfield, and Bruce Williams, Topeka; two nieces, Margaret Showalter, Arkansas City, and Sharon Jones, Topeka; and a friend, Eva Rhodes, Winfield.
Mable Bohannan
CEDAR VALE – Mable I. Bohannan, 75, lifelong resident of Cedar Vale, died May 11, 2002, at Cedar Vale Community Hospital.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Church of Christ. Burial will be in North Cedar Cemetery.
Friends may call at Wheeler Funeral Home from 4 to 8 p.m. Wednesday.
A memorial has been established with Cedar Vale Community Hospital.
Bohannan was born July 11, 1926, in Cedar Vale, to Mable I. (Luster) and Newton F. Bohannan. She was raised and educated in Cedar Vale.
For many years she farmed the family's original homestead. She also worked as a certified medical aide at the Cedar Vale nursing home.
She was a member of the Church of Christ.
Survivors include a son, Tim Basler, Cedar Vale; eight grandchildren; three brothers, Rollin Bohannan, Cedar Vale, Cecil Bohannan, Topeka, and Billy Bohannan, Bolivar, Mo.; and a sister, Betty Boss, Osage City.
Marjorie Cochran
Marjorie Cochran, 86, of Winfield, died May 11, 2002, at Good Samaritan Village.
Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Miles Funeral Service. Burial will be in Highland Cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home from 5 to 9 tonight. The family will greet visitors from 6 to 7.
A memorial has been established with the Second Baptist Church Building Fund. Contributions may be made through the church or funeral home.
Cochran was born May 25, 1915, in Burleson County, Texas, to Lula (Lawrence) and Ben Wallace. She was raised and educated in Texas and Oklahoma before moving from Guthrie, Okla., to Winfield in 1939.
On March 23, 1944, she married Thomas J. Cochran Jr. in Winfield where they made their home. Her husband died Jan. 26, 1975.
A homemaker, she was a member of the Second Baptist Church.
Survivors include two sons, Steve E. Cochran, Winfield, and Kevin Cochran, East St. Louis, Ill.; a daughter, Tommie Reynolds, Winfield; two brothers, Cecil Wallace, Leavenworth, and Gene Wallace, Kansas City, Mo.; three sisters, Jewell Wallace and Vera Norris, both of Winfield, and Madge Austin, East St. Louis; and five grandchildren.
Charles Green
WICHITA – Charles Samuel Green, 55, a Wichita attorney, died May 10, 2002.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Thursday at Cochran Mortuary.
Green was born Jan. 20, 1947, in Winfield, to Frances (Elliott) and Keith P. Green.
Survivors include a brother, James Green, Atlanta, Ga.
John Nation
Services for John Howard Nation were held at 3 p.m. May 12, 2002, at the First United Methodist Church. The Rev. Dr. Allen Polen and the Rev. Fred Houston officiated.
Burial was at 10 a.m. May 11 in Highland Cemetery. American Legion Post 10 and Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3544 performed graveside ceremonies.
Louise Schuppener was the pianist, and Rachel Land sang “Amazing Grace.” Congregational hymns were “How Great Thou Art,” “The Old Rugged Cross” and “Softly and Tenderly.”
Casket bearers were Michael Heinz, Shannon Land, Bob Nation, R.J. Nation, Ryan Ptak and Charles D. Wasson.
Memorials have been established with Habitat for Humanity, First United Methodist Church and the American Heart Association.
Miles Funeral Service was in charge of arrangements.
William Meisch
CEDAR VALE – William F. Meisch, 73, of Cedar Vale, died May 13, 2002, at his home.
Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the First United Methodist Church. Burial will be at 3 p.m. in Severy Cemetery. Wheeler Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society and the American Heart Association.
Meisch was born Oct. 26, 1928, in Higgins, Texas, to Opal Neoma (Brown) and Roger “Tex” Meisch. He was raised and educated in the Higgins area.
From 1951 to 1953 he served in the U.S. Army.
On May 21, 1952, he married Donna L. Norman in Piedmont. They moved to Cedar Vale in 1954.
Meisch was the owner and operator of Meisch Dirt Contracting from 1958 to the present.
He was a member of the First United Methodist Church and the American Legion.
Survivors include his wife, Donna Meisch, Cedar Vale; a daughter, Linda Askew, Bartlesville; two brothers, Frank Meisch, Chanute, and Rolland Meisch, Howard; two sisters, Lila Wunderlich, Piedmont, and Dorothy Disney, Howard; and two grandchildren.
Bill Schooling
Services for Ray James “Bill” Schooling were held at 10 a.m. May 14, 2002, in Colonial Chapel of Miles Funeral Service. Pastor James D. Floyd officiated.
Burial was in Highland Cemetery. American Legion Post 10 and Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3544 provided military rites.
Music included “How Great Thou Art.”
Casket bearers were Boyd Adams, William Greer. James Ludwig, Kenton Ray, Carl Taylor and Kevin Wingate.
A memorial has been established with the American Heart Association.
Marjorie Cochran
Services for Marjorie Cochran were held at 10:30 a.m. May 15, 2002, in Colonial Chapel of Miles Funeral Service. The Rev. Earnest McClure officiated. Burial was in Highland Cemetery.
Arvenia Hughes and Patricia Crawford read the obituary and resolutions.
Marcia Redmon sang “Blessed Assurance,” “Amazing Grace” and “Precious Lord.”
Kylee Reynolds read a poem, “My Angel Waits For Me.”
Casket bearers were Robert Banfill, Jesse “Bob” Carrillo, Ronald Greer, Larry McPherson, Tyson Reynolds and Edward Tapia.
A memorial has been established with the Second Baptist Church.
Howard Hawkins
BELKNAP – Howard Abbott Hawkins, 82, farmer and stockman, of Belknap, died May 13, 2002, at his home.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Zimmerman Funeral Home in Howard. Burial will be in Belknap Cemetery.
Memorials have been established with the Belknap Community Church and Belknap Community Fund.
Hawkins was born Jan. 27, 1920, in Blackwell, Okla., to Alice Marguerite (Abbott) and Howard Claude Hawkins. He attended school in Oxford and graduated as valedictorian of the Oxford High School Class of 1938.
He attended Fort Hays State College for a brief time before returning to operate the family farm near Oxford. In 1941 he purchased a farm in the Belknap neighborhood of Chautauqua County.
On March 23, 1948, he married Phyllis Nadine McAlister in Moline.
A former member of the Oxford Baptist Church, Hawkins attended Belknap Community Church for many years.
Survivors include his wife, Phyllis Hawkins, Belknap; three sons, Howard Hawkins, Grenola, and Bert Hawkins and Fred Hawkins, both of Sedan; two daughters, Rita Hebb, Howard, and Doris Bracken, Cedar Vale; 12 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
Delbert Riggs
HOWARD – Delbert Monroe Riggs, 81, of Howard, died May 10, 2002, at Greenwood County Hospital, Eureka.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Zimmerman Funeral Home. Burial and military services will be in Grace Lawn Cemetery.
Memorials have been established with the American Cancer Society and the American Heart Association.
Riggs was born Feb. 4, 1921, in Howard, to Merlie Mae (Murphy) and Walter Virgil Riggs. He attended rural school in Elk County.
On Oct. 26, 1940, Riggs married Loretta Pearl Taylor in the Fiat community of Elk County. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army in the European theater of the war.
After the war, Riggs and his wife made their home in Washington state where he worked as a milk processor. They later lived in Howard and Wichita before moving to Eustis, Fla., in 2001. His wife died Feb. 1, 2002, in Tampa, Fla., and Riggs recently returned to Howard.
He was a member of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1949 in Washington, Carter-Rader American Legion Post 149 in Howard and the Howard Church of Christ.
A son, Stephen Riggs, preceded him in death.
Survivors include three daughters, Theresa Smith, Howard, Anettia Nephew, Eustis, Fla., and Tena Beaushaw, Tacoma, Wash.; nine grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
