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Alice Lavern <I>Molt</I> Boyer

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Alice Lavern Molt Boyer

Birth
Everest, Brown County, Kansas, USA
Death
20 May 2011 (aged 93)
Sabetha, Nemaha County, Kansas, USA
Burial
Hiawatha, Brown County, Kansas, USA Add to Map
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Alice Molt Boyer, 93, of Hiawatha, died Friday morning, May 20, 2011, at the Apostolic Christian Home in Sabetha where she had been a resident since 2005. Alice was born November 27, 1917, at Everest, one of ten children of Christian August and Fannie Harriet Sheets Molt and had lived most of her life in Brown County. She moved with her family at a young age to the Robinson/Claytonville area where she attended Claytonville School. She spent a few years working at the Hallmark Factory in Hiawatha prior to working at Gay Gibson Garment Factor in Horton, later in Holton, as a seamstress before it closed. Alice later was a nurse aide at Hiawatha Community Hospital, retiring February 1983. Mrs. Boyer was a longtime member of the First Christian Church of Hiawatha; the Christian Women's Fellowship of the Church; and the ladies auxiliary to VFW Post #3021 of Horton. She married Lawnie L. "Bud" Boyer, August 3, 1936, at St. Joseph, Missouri. Their family moved in the late 1930's during the Dust Bowl to Oregon to live a few years before returning to Brown County. He died June 13, 1975. Alice was also preceded in death by her parents; a son Eldon Keith Boyer April 17, 2004; two brothers Arthur Molt, Sylvester "Sally" Molt; a sister Marcia Derrick; a son-in-law Oliver Dickinson Nov. 7, 1999; also, a brother and sister in infancy. Survivors include two daughters Marjorie Dickinson of Hiawatha, Peggy (Mike) Shipman of Sabetha; daughter in law Dixie Boyer of Rush, Colorado; a brother Lester Molt of Jerome, Idaho; three sisters: Norma Gifford of Nyssa, Oregon, Anna Davis of Ontario, Oregon, Dorothy Collins of Caldwell, Idaho; 12 grandchildren; 20 great-grandchildren; and a great-great-grandchild. Funereal services are planned for 2 p.m. Saturday, May 28, at Chapel Oaks Funeral Home in Hiawatha with Reverend Kelly Sipes, of Sabetha, officiating. Interment will follow at Mt. Hope Cemetery, Hiawatha.
Alice Molt Boyer, 93, of Hiawatha, died Friday morning, May 20, 2011, at the Apostolic Christian Home in Sabetha where she had been a resident since 2005. Alice was born November 27, 1917, at Everest, one of ten children of Christian August and Fannie Harriet Sheets Molt and had lived most of her life in Brown County. She moved with her family at a young age to the Robinson/Claytonville area where she attended Claytonville School. She spent a few years working at the Hallmark Factory in Hiawatha prior to working at Gay Gibson Garment Factor in Horton, later in Holton, as a seamstress before it closed. Alice later was a nurse aide at Hiawatha Community Hospital, retiring February 1983. Mrs. Boyer was a longtime member of the First Christian Church of Hiawatha; the Christian Women's Fellowship of the Church; and the ladies auxiliary to VFW Post #3021 of Horton. She married Lawnie L. "Bud" Boyer, August 3, 1936, at St. Joseph, Missouri. Their family moved in the late 1930's during the Dust Bowl to Oregon to live a few years before returning to Brown County. He died June 13, 1975. Alice was also preceded in death by her parents; a son Eldon Keith Boyer April 17, 2004; two brothers Arthur Molt, Sylvester "Sally" Molt; a sister Marcia Derrick; a son-in-law Oliver Dickinson Nov. 7, 1999; also, a brother and sister in infancy. Survivors include two daughters Marjorie Dickinson of Hiawatha, Peggy (Mike) Shipman of Sabetha; daughter in law Dixie Boyer of Rush, Colorado; a brother Lester Molt of Jerome, Idaho; three sisters: Norma Gifford of Nyssa, Oregon, Anna Davis of Ontario, Oregon, Dorothy Collins of Caldwell, Idaho; 12 grandchildren; 20 great-grandchildren; and a great-great-grandchild. Funereal services are planned for 2 p.m. Saturday, May 28, at Chapel Oaks Funeral Home in Hiawatha with Reverend Kelly Sipes, of Sabetha, officiating. Interment will follow at Mt. Hope Cemetery, Hiawatha.


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