Chase County Kansas Obituaries
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Kelly, Kathleen Dickerson
Kathleen Kelly, 54, formerly of Strong City, died Saturday, Dec. 8, 2007, at her daughter�s home in rural Emporia.
Services will be held Thursday, Dec. 13, 2007, at 2 p.m., at the First Baptist Church in Cottonwood Falls with Pastor Rick Smith officiating burial will follow in Strong City Cemetery, Strong City.
The daughter of Lemuel Slaid and Margaret Josephine Gossard Dickerson, Kathleen was born June 18, 1953, at Dayton, Ohio. She attended Emporia High School.
She married James Kelly Sept. 5, 1975, at Emporia. They were divorced.
She was a homemaker and worked as a waitress at the S&S Cafe in Emporia and the Emma Chase Cafe in Cottonwood Falls. She, also, worked for the Chase County Health Department. She had been a member of the First Baptist Church in Cottonwood Falls.
She is survived by a son, James Robert Kelly Jr. of Strong City; two daughters, Margaret Ann Swartz of
Emporia and Kimberly Lee Kelly of Emporia; her mother; three brothers, Richard Eugene Dickerson of Lee�s Summitt, Mo., Lemuel Slaid Dickerson of Ottawa and Karl Dickerson of Xenia, Ohio; two sisters, Deborah Ann Coop of Vancouver, Wash. and Darla Lynn Kaufman of Burlington; and six grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her father and grandparents.
Memorial contributions to Hand In Hand Hospice or a funeral expenses fund may be sent in care of Brown-Bennett-Alexander Funeral Home, 201 Cherry, Cottonwood Falls, KS 66845.
Chase County Leader-News, Cottonwood Falls, KS, Dec. 13, 2007.