Chase County Kansas Obituaries
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Kraft, Mae Maloney Dies Following
Lengthy Illness.
Funeral Services For Mrs. Mae
Kraft, Strong City, Held Wednesday Morning.
Mrs. Edward J. Kraft, who had
been in ill health for the last six
years, died Sunday at the Conklin
Rest Home in Strong City where she
had been a patient three years. Mrs.
Kraft who had resided in Strong
City a number of years ago, returned
there in 1946 after having made her
home in Topeka and Wichita.
Funeral Services were conducted at
9:30 o'clock, Wednesday morning,
Oct. 29, at St. Anthony's Catholic
Church, Strong City, with the Rev.
Father C, A. Landis in charge.
The
pallbearers were William Bechel
mayr; Karl Stubenhofer, Howard
Stubenhofer, Gerald Dieker, Martin
Deragisch and William E. Brown.
Burial was made in St Anthony's
Cemetery. Recitation of the Rosary
was held Tuesday evening at 7:30
o'clock at the Brown Funeral home.
Mae Maloney Kraft was born June
13, 1885 at St Albans, Vermont, the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Maloney. She married Edward J.
Kraft in 1906 at Topeka. They were
the parents of two children. Mrs.
Maloney previously worked in dry
goods stores in Cottonwood Falls.
She was a member of St. Anthony's
Church and St Anthony's Altar
Society, She had been a devoted
worker in St. Joseph's Catholic
Church, Wichita, when she lived in
that City.
Surviving Mrs. Kraft are one son,
Joseph Kraft, and one daughter-in-
law, Lois Kraft, Little Rock, Ark.;
two grandchildren; two brothers,
Joseph Maloney, Strong City, and
Ed Maloney, Emporia. six sisters,
Miss Frankie Maloney, Strong City,
Miss Laura Maloney and Mrs.
T. J. Davis of Newton; Mrs.
George Nesladek and Mrs. Walter
Teat, Topeka; and Mrs. Vern Stocker,
Cherokee.
She was preceded in death
by her husband in 1940 and her
daughter, Mrs. Harold Wiebrecht.
Relatives from out of town here
for the services were Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph Kraft and son, Fayetteville,
Ark.; Mr. and Mrs. George Nesladek,
Topeka; Mr. and Mrs. Joe Dunn and
Marilyn, and Mrs. Vern Stocker,
Pittsburg; E. S. Maloney and Mrs.
Wallace Evans, Emporia; Mrs. Tom
Davis. Miss Marlyn Davis, and Mr.
and Mrs. Phillip Anderson, Newton;
Mrs. S. F. Ditmars and Mr. and Mrs.
Choc Greenwood, Muskogee, Okla.;
Mr, and Mrs. Theodore Kraft,
Hutchinson.
Chase County Leader-News, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, Oct.29, 1958