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Chase County Kansas Obituaries
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Wood, Peggy Peggy Wood, 75, died Saturday, Sept. 4, 2004, at Mercy Regional Health Center in Manhattan. A Celebration of Life Memorial Service will be conducted at 3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 11, in the Community Room of
Meadowlark Hills Retirement Community in Manhattan with Rev. Tom Robson officiating.
Mary Margaret Nobel was born in Rosalia, Jan. 27, 1929, to Bert and Nellie Smith Noble. She graduated from Kansas State University in 1950 with a bachelor's degree in home economics and extension and received a master's degree in secondary counseling from Emporia State University in 1972.
She married Howard C. Wood in El Dorado on Aug.
21, 1949. He died in 2001.
They lived on their farm near Clements for 45 years. They organized two 4-H clubs and were leaders of the Clements Club for over 35 years. She served on the boards of the local YWCA, Chase County Extension and AAUW, and was an Elder/Deacon of the Cottonwood Falls First Presbyterian Church and sang in the choir. She served on many commit-tees at Meadowlark Hills. She taught economics seven years at Marion Jr. High School in Florence and coached girls basket-ball. She organized the Future Homemakers. Later she taught special education students in the Chase County Middle School in Strong City. She worked three years for the
Charles Rayl Law Office and three years for Home Health Services of Chase County in Cottonwood Falls.
She is survived by her daughters, Dr. Kathy Grandison of Colrain, Mass.; Margie Dyck of Overland Park; Jeanne Mann of Lawrence; and Mary Crane of Ackley, Iowa; and 10 grandchildren.
She donated her body to the K.U. Medical School in Kansas City, Kansas.
Memorials are suggested to Camp Wood YMCA, and Good Samaritan Fund of Meadowlark Hill Retirement Community in
care of Brown-Benn t-Alexander Funeral H e, 201 Cherry, Cott wood Falls, KS 66845.
Chase County Leader News, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, Sept 09, 2004.
by Lorna Marvin
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