Obituary Register of Deeds Office Gove, KS
Alice F. Beesley
Hutchinson -- Longtime Hays resident Alice F. Beesley, 78, died Sunday, Jan.1, at Hutchinson Hospital.
She was born Feb. 8, 1905, in Gove County, the daughter of John C. and Nellie Mae (Gorham) Beesley. She taught in rural schools before becoming the chairman of the home economics department at Fort Hays State University in 1944, a position she retained until her retirement in 1969. In 1955, she spent the spring semester as a visiting professor at Ewha Women's University in Seoul, S. Korea, under a Smith-Mundt grant. In June 1981 she moved from Hays to Hutchinson.
She was a member of the Hutchinson First United Methodist Church and had held offices at the local, district and conference levels within the church. She also was a member of the Delta Kappa Gamma and Sigma Sigma Sigma sororities, FHSU Alumni Association, Fifty Year Club, the Spaulding chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and numberous other organizations affiliated with FHSU and Hays.
Survivors include two brothers, Ray, Quinter, and Jim, Dighton, and four sisters, Nancy Heard, Russell, Grace Coberly, Hays, Edith Homolka, Claflin, and Mary Weckel, Wichita.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Hendricks Funeral Chapel, Quinter, the Rev. William C. Miller officiating; burial at Gove Cemetery. Friends may call until 9 p.m. today and from 9 a.m. to service time Wednesday at the chapel. The family suggests memorials to the Alice F. Beesley Scholarship Fund through the FHSU Endowment Association.
Alice F. Beesley
Hutchinson -- Longtime Hays resident Alice F. Beesley, 78, died Sunday, Jan.1, at Hutchinson Hospital.
She was born Feb. 8, 1905, in Gove County, the daughter of John C. and Nellie Mae (Gorham) Beesley. She taught in rural schools before becoming the chairman of the home economics department at Fort Hays State University in 1944, a position she retained until her retirement in 1969. In 1955, she spent the spring semester as a visiting professor at Ewha Women's University in Seoul, S. Korea, under a Smith-Mundt grant. In June 1981 she moved from Hays to Hutchinson.
She was a member of the Hutchinson First United Methodist Church and had held offices at the local, district and conference levels within the church. She also was a member of the Delta Kappa Gamma and Sigma Sigma Sigma sororities, FHSU Alumni Association, Fifty Year Club, the Spaulding chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and numberous other organizations affiliated with FHSU and Hays.
Survivors include two brothers, Ray, Quinter, and Jim, Dighton, and four sisters, Nancy Heard, Russell, Grace Coberly, Hays, Edith Homolka, Claflin, and Mary Weckel, Wichita.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Hendricks Funeral Chapel, Quinter, the Rev. William C. Miller officiating; burial at Gove Cemetery. Friends may call until 9 p.m. today and from 9 a.m. to service time Wednesday at the chapel. The family suggests memorials to the Alice F. Beesley Scholarship Fund through the FHSU Endowment Association.
Obituary Register of Deeds Office Gove, KS
Alice F. Beesley
Hutchinson -- Longtime Hays resident Alice F. Beesley, 78, died Sunday, Jan.1, at Hutchinson Hospital.
She was born Feb. 8, 1905, in Gove County, the daughter of John C. and Nellie Mae (Gorham) Beesley. She taught in rural schools before becoming the chairman of the home economics department at Fort Hays State University in 1944, a position she retained until her retirement in 1969. In 1955, she spent the spring semester as a visiting professor at Ewha Women's University in Seoul, S. Korea, under a Smith-Mundt grant. In June 1981 she moved from Hays to Hutchinson.
She was a member of the Hutchinson First United Methodist Church and had held offices at the local, district and conference levels within the church. She also was a member of the Delta Kappa Gamma and Sigma Sigma Sigma sororities, FHSU Alumni Association, Fifty Year Club, the Spaulding chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and numberous other organizations affiliated with FHSU and Hays.
Survivors include two brothers, Ray, Quinter, and Jim, Dighton, and four sisters, Nancy Heard, Russell, Grace Coberly, Hays, Edith Homolka, Claflin, and Mary Weckel, Wichita.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Hendricks Funeral Chapel, Quinter, the Rev. William C. Miller officiating; burial at Gove Cemetery. Friends may call until 9 p.m. today and from 9 a.m. to service time Wednesday at the chapel. The family suggests memorials to the Alice F. Beesley Scholarship Fund through the FHSU Endowment Association.
Alice F. Beesley
Hutchinson -- Longtime Hays resident Alice F. Beesley, 78, died Sunday, Jan.1, at Hutchinson Hospital.
She was born Feb. 8, 1905, in Gove County, the daughter of John C. and Nellie Mae (Gorham) Beesley. She taught in rural schools before becoming the chairman of the home economics department at Fort Hays State University in 1944, a position she retained until her retirement in 1969. In 1955, she spent the spring semester as a visiting professor at Ewha Women's University in Seoul, S. Korea, under a Smith-Mundt grant. In June 1981 she moved from Hays to Hutchinson.
She was a member of the Hutchinson First United Methodist Church and had held offices at the local, district and conference levels within the church. She also was a member of the Delta Kappa Gamma and Sigma Sigma Sigma sororities, FHSU Alumni Association, Fifty Year Club, the Spaulding chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and numberous other organizations affiliated with FHSU and Hays.
Survivors include two brothers, Ray, Quinter, and Jim, Dighton, and four sisters, Nancy Heard, Russell, Grace Coberly, Hays, Edith Homolka, Claflin, and Mary Weckel, Wichita.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Hendricks Funeral Chapel, Quinter, the Rev. William C. Miller officiating; burial at Gove Cemetery. Friends may call until 9 p.m. today and from 9 a.m. to service time Wednesday at the chapel. The family suggests memorials to the Alice F. Beesley Scholarship Fund through the FHSU Endowment Association.
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