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Chase County Kansas Obituaries
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Reese, Mary Susan Ethridge
Mrs. Mary Reese died Thursday
at her home north of Clements after several months illness. She fractured a hip when
she fell several months ago. Mrs. Reese was one of the older residents of this county.
She came here in 1882.
Mary Susan Ethridge Reese was born January 29, 1854 in
Barry Co, Mo., and passed away at her home near Clements, May 19, 1938. She was
84 years 3 months and 21 days of age. Her mother died when she was a small child
and after the death of her father in 1876 she came to Kansas to live.
On May 27,
1882 she was married to Ephriam Reese at Cottonwood Falls. Their home has been
in Chase County since that time, the last 39 years being on their farm on Silver Creek.
They were the parents of four children, Florence, who died when a child, Carl, Nannie
and John. Mrs. Reese was a member of the Baptist Church for many years and later
joined the Methodist Church in which she kept her faith until death. Her brothers and
sisters all preceded her in death as did Mr. Reese, whose death occurred March 15,
1902.
She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Nannie Munsell of Sedgwick, Kans.; two
sons, Carl of Clements, and John of Elmdale; one stepson, E. L. Reese and one step
daughter, Mrs. Bell Moore, both of Pampa, Tex.
Funeral services were held at the
Brown Chapel in Cottonwood Falls, Saturday afternoon, at 2:30 o'clock. Rev. Dwight L
. Patton was in charge of the services. Interment was in the Elmdale Cemetery. Pall
bearers were R. A. Stephenson, Jake Stephenson, Joe Mauderly, Charles Crawford,
Gus Shaft, and S. J. Shelton.
The Chase County News, Strong City, Kansas, May 25, 1938
by Lorna Marvin
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