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OBITUARY. Ref. The Onaga Herald; pub. dtd. 14Jan1960; Page 4; KS State Historical & Research Lib., Topeka, KS Film No. O-128. Credit to Kay Sellers pub. 2002 "Bucks Grove Cemetery" Jackson Co., KS

OBITUARY -- Katie Lee Bottom

Katie Lee, daughter of Caroline and Franklin McKinsey was born April 24, 1881, in the McKinsey homestead in the Rock School District in Bucks Grove neighborhood. As a member of a large family, schooling was limited, but Katie was thorough and possessed a retentive memory.
Throughout her life time she read avidly and was interested and informed but was modest and retiring by nature. Because her father was a Civil war veteran and her younger son a soldier in World War II, she was much concerned with the current welfare of our country.
In a simple wedding at the farm home, with only members of the two families present, Katie Lee and Tom Bottom were married December 21, 1903. They moved to the John Bottom farm where they lived continuously.
In 1953 a Golden Wedding was celebrated in the Grange Hall on English Ridge. Their children and many other relatives and friends made this occasion a memorable one.
The death of her husband March 16, 1955 broke the family circle. Since that time she has kept the old home for the children and their families, who came often to be with her in the home they hold dear.
Katie excelled as a mother, homemaker and housekeeper. Her native ability to see beauty in everything found expression in her home in her flowers. Her flower beds were extensive and beautiful because she loved them so much.
Since young womanhood she was a member of Bucks Grove Church and was active in W.S.C.S. She attended infrequently but was dependable and gave generously to the projects her church sponsored.
Her children and grandchildren, her brothers and their families, other relatives and friends will remember her unselfish love, the gentleness of her forgiving nature, her unswerving devotion to duty.
Following a few years of failing health, death came quietly in her own home, Monday evening, December 28, 1959, at the age of 78 years.
Two sons, J.C. Bottom, Soldier; Roscoe, Topeka; Isla Nott, Wetmore, Bertha Channel, Englewood, Colo., Velma Tolin, Soldier, and Maxine Helton, Holton, survive this good mother; also 27 grandchildren, and 24 great grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, a sister, Mrs. Lettie Nicholas, and Sherman McKinsey, a brother.
Brothers of the old home circle remain: Fred McKinsey of Leavenworth, Atlee McKinsey and Milton McKinsey both of Holton, Cull McKinsey and Otto McKinsey of Bucks Grove.
Service was directed by Padden Mortuary Thursday, December 31 at Bucks Grove Church,. Rev. Bill Hurtig and Rev. Howard Caskey officiated. Clyde and Claude Rieschick sang "Rock of Ages" and "Land of the Unsetting Sun". Pall bearers were Jerry Fordham, Fred Fisher, Lester Bottom, James Bottom, Dale and Roy McKinsey. Bucks Grove ladies cared for the flowers.

Burial 31 Dec 1960