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Gardner, Leona Okalla Pyles

MRS. HOWARD GARDNER FUNERAL

Funeral services for Mrs. Howard Gardner, who died in the St. Francis Hospital in Wichita, Monday, April 10, 1944, were held at the Methodist Church in Elmdale on Thursday after noon at 1:30 with Rev. V. A. Nickel in charge.

Mrs. Art Drummond, Mr. and Mrs. Will. Schneider and Duncan Mc- Alpine sang; accompanied by Miss Elma Faye Drummond, The pall bearers were M. C. Ballew, John Duke, Or ville Giger, Leroy Giger, Roy Park, and Otto Frey with interment in the Elrndale cemetery.

The following obituary was read at the services.

Leona Okalla, eldest daughter of William Thomas and Florence May Pyles, was born near Clements, Kansas on July 29, 1897 and passed away after a lingering illness of two years at St. Francis Hospital in Wichita at the age of 46 years, 7 months and 12 days. At the age of 13, she moved with her parents to their home near Elmdale, where she grew to womanhood. At an early age she proclaimed her faith in God, with the Methodist Church in Elmdale. This faith she held until death.

On June 4, 1916 at Emporia, Kan sas she was united in. marriage to Howard Eugene Gardner of Elrndale. To this union four children were born, Francis Eugene, Velma Lucille, Thel rna Maxine and Shirley Deane. They made their home in Chase county until 1936 when the family moved to Wichita. Upon the advise of the family physician last fall, she and her husband went to Albuquer- que, New Mexico for her health.

Showing no improvement she wished to be near her children and grand children, thus she and her husband returned in January to Wichita.

When her condition continued to grow worse she entered the hospital, where she underwent a major operation. She improved for a short time, but suf fered a relapse which lead to her death.

She was preceded in death by one daughter, Shirley Deane, and one brother, Everett. She leaves to mourn her passing, her husband, Howard, one son, Fran cis Eugene of Wichita, two daughters, Mrs. Vern Wiltshire of Medicine Lodge, Mrs. Roy Dunkle of Anthony, Kansas; eight grandchildren, her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. W. T, Pyles, four sisters, Mrs. Evadna Byram of Clements, Mrs. Mildred King of Wichita, Mrs. Cecile Clark of Elmdale and Mrs. Velma Drummond of Cottonwood Falls and two brothers, Nelson E. Pyles of Hoxie and Thomas Pyles of Elmdale, besides a host of other rela tives and friends.

Chase County Leader-News, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, April 10,1944





Chase County Death Notices and Obituaries,
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