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Chase County Kansas Obituaries
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Hancock, Ruth B Thomas Ruth B. Hancock, 93, rural Emporia died at her son's home in rural Elmdale on Aug. 07, 2002.
Ruth Thomas was born on Jan. 5, 1909, in Chase County. She was the daughter of John J. and Alma Moon Thomas. She married Homer W. Hancock at the Friends Church parsonage in Emporia on March 31, 1929. He died in Emporia on Jan. 31, 1994. She attended Canaan School, and was a member of the Walnut Grove Friends Church until it closed in October of 1937. She was the organist, playing on an old pump organ for the church from the age of 10. When the church later obtained a piano and she also served as church pianist.
After her marriage she moved to Toledo where they lived until March, 1938, when they moved to her long time home in Lyon county, where she lived for over 64 years. She was a partner in farming with her husband. She was a member of the First Friends Church, Emporia.
She is survived by three sons, Ervin Homer Hancock, Hugoton, Gail Wayne Hancock and Paul Duane Hancock, Elmdale; two daughters, Margaret Esther Noller, Derby and Naomi Ruth Starkey, Emporia; nine grandchildren; three step-grandchildren; several nieces and nephews; and special caregiver, Carlene Pitts, Emporia. She was preceded in death by her parents, two brothers, four sisters and one great granddaughter.
The funeral service was at the Roberts-Blue-Barnett Funeral Home, Emporia, on Aug. 10, 2002. Internment was in the Hillside Cemetery, Saffordville. Memorial
contributions either to the Friends Missions or Hand in Hand Hospice, Emporia, may be sent in care of the funeral home.
Chase County Leader-News, Cottonwood Kansas, Aug. 15, 2002
by Lorna Marvin
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