Chase County Kansas Obituaries
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Powers, Margie M King
Margie M. Powers, 95, died
Feb. 17, 2003, at the Chase
County Health and
Rehabilitation Center,
Cottonwood Falls. The funeral
service was Feb. 21, 2003, at
the First Baptist Church.
Pastor Rick Smith officiated.
Interment followed at the
Matfield Green Cemetery at
Matfield Green.
Margie M. King, the daugh-
ter of William and Martha Ann
Wells King, was born Feb. 4,
1908, at Collegeville, Okla. She
married Jessie Powers on Nov.
29, 1926, at Quinta, Texas. Mr.
Powers died in 1978.
She was a packer for a cook-
ie factory for eight years and
worked as a cook for the
Marceline School District for
10 years. She retired in 1973.
She was a member of the First
Baptist Church in Cottonwood
Falls. She was also a member
of the Army Mothers and the
Rebeccah Lodge.
She is survived by a son,
Carl Powers of Emporia; two
grandchildren and three great-
grandchildren.
She was preceded in death
by her parents, two brothers,
John King and R.D. King; and
a half-brother, Joe King.
Memorial contributions to
the First Baptist Church may
be sent in care of the Brown-
Bennett-Alexander Funeral
Home, 201 Cherry, Cottonwood
Falls, KS 66845.
Chase County Leader-News, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, Feb 27 2003.