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Cora Amanda <I>Snyder</I> Winkler

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Cora Amanda Snyder Winkler

Birth
Gypsum, Saline County, Kansas, USA
Death
13 Apr 1973 (aged 86)
Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas, USA
Burial
Gypsum, Saline County, Kansas, USA Add to Map
Plot
Block 2, Lot 24
Memorial ID
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Daughter of: Edward D. & Barbara Ellen (Buzzard) Snyder
Wife of: Theodore Winkler
Mother of: Herman, Zola, Louise & Donald

MRS. THEODORE WINKLER

GYPSUM – The funeral for Mrs. Cora A. Winkler, 86, longtime chief operator and office manager for Gypsum’s Southwestern Bell Telephone exchange, will be at 10:30 am Monday at the Gypsum First Baptist church, the Rev. Floyd McCague officiating. Burial will be in the city cemetery.

Mrs. Winkler died Friday morning at the Northeast nursing center, Wichita, where she moved about 5 years ago following a stroke.

She was born Aug. 4, 1886, at Gypsum.

Mrs. Winkler, who retired in 1951 after 29 years at the Gypsum telephone office, long was active in Gypsum’s civic affairs.

A member of the First Baptist church, she served for many years as church treasurer and was White Cross chairman of the church’s Women’s Missionary society for 15 years.

She was a member of the Telephone Pioneers, the Native Daughters of Kansas, the Entre Nous club of Gypsum, and was a past-member of the city’s library board.

Her husband died in 1917.

Surviving are 2 sons, Donald, Wichita and Herman, Spring Hill, Kas.; 2 daughters, Mrs. Zola Clay, Wichita, and Louise Winkler, Los Angeles, Calif.; a brother, Frank Snyder, Topeka; a sister, Mrs. Laura Bogart, Gypsum, 5 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.

Friends may call at the Gillum funeral home, Gypsum.
Daughter of: Edward D. & Barbara Ellen (Buzzard) Snyder
Wife of: Theodore Winkler
Mother of: Herman, Zola, Louise & Donald

MRS. THEODORE WINKLER

GYPSUM – The funeral for Mrs. Cora A. Winkler, 86, longtime chief operator and office manager for Gypsum’s Southwestern Bell Telephone exchange, will be at 10:30 am Monday at the Gypsum First Baptist church, the Rev. Floyd McCague officiating. Burial will be in the city cemetery.

Mrs. Winkler died Friday morning at the Northeast nursing center, Wichita, where she moved about 5 years ago following a stroke.

She was born Aug. 4, 1886, at Gypsum.

Mrs. Winkler, who retired in 1951 after 29 years at the Gypsum telephone office, long was active in Gypsum’s civic affairs.

A member of the First Baptist church, she served for many years as church treasurer and was White Cross chairman of the church’s Women’s Missionary society for 15 years.

She was a member of the Telephone Pioneers, the Native Daughters of Kansas, the Entre Nous club of Gypsum, and was a past-member of the city’s library board.

Her husband died in 1917.

Surviving are 2 sons, Donald, Wichita and Herman, Spring Hill, Kas.; 2 daughters, Mrs. Zola Clay, Wichita, and Louise Winkler, Los Angeles, Calif.; a brother, Frank Snyder, Topeka; a sister, Mrs. Laura Bogart, Gypsum, 5 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.

Friends may call at the Gillum funeral home, Gypsum.


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