Obituary from "The Parsons Sun", Friday, March 10, 2017:
COFFEYVILLE — Ellen Jeanette Rhodes, 89, of Coffeyville, a former longtime resident of Edna, passed away at 6:05 a.m. Thursday, March 9, 2017, at Coffeyville Regional Medical Center.
She was born Sept. 15, 1927, at Langdon to Guy and Manilla (Nevius) Elsworth. She spent her early childhood there and attended her first three years of school at Langdon. In 1936 she moved with her parents to a farm southeast of Parsons and attended Liberty School. She then moved with her parents to a farm on the north edge of the Kansas Army Ammunition Plant east of Parsons and attended Labette County Community High School until her marriage to Joseph "Joe" Rhodes on Oct. 7, 1944, in the city of Labette.
She accompanied her husband to Paso Robles, California, and later Alabama, while he was serving in the U.S. Army. When he was deployed overseas during World War II, Ellen returned to Kansas. Upon his honorable discharge from the Army, they lived in Altamont, Oswego, Parsons and Coffeyville before buying a home in Edna in 1952. Joe preceded her in death on July 26, 2005.
Ellen worked 27 years as a bus driver for Labette County USD 506 and three years as a substitute driver. Every summer for many years Ellen and Joe drove a bus to take children to the Bible Impact Ministries (formerly Rural Bible Crusade) summer camp and worked at the camp for the week. She was an accomplished seamstress and an excellent cook and spent many hours crocheting afghans for her children and grandchildren that they still enjoy today. Ellen was a member of First Baptist Church of Edna.
She is survived by six of her seven children, Sue Sovereign and her husband, David, of Altadena, California, Sandra Nash and her husband, Arthur, of Altamont, John Rhodes of Tulsa, Mark Rhodes and his wife, Amy, of Buffalo, Naomi Smith and her husband, Oral, of Edna and Philip Rhodes and his wife, Jeni, of LaVeta, Colorado; 22 grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren (with another on the way); and a great-great-grandchild.
In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by her parents; three brothers, Vernon, Virgil and Norman Elsworth; a daughter, Nancy Patton; a granddaughter, Lisa Nash Zook; a grandson, Randy Nash; and a great-grandson, Nathan Hunt.
The service will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at First Baptist Church in Edna. Burial will be at Edna Elm Grove Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at Bath-Forbes-Hoffman Funeral Home, Altamont.
Memorials are suggested to Bible Impact Ministries for her grandson Adam Rhodes' ministry at Whispering Winds Bible Camp and may be left at or mailed to the funeral home, P.O. Box 325, Altamont, KS 67330.
Online condolences may be left at www.forbeshoffman.com.
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She had been residing at Windsor Place nursing home in Coffeyville, Kansas since October 2015.
COFFEYVILLE — Ellen Jeanette Rhodes, 89, of Coffeyville, a former longtime resident of Edna, passed away at 6:05 a.m. Thursday, March 9, 2017, at Coffeyville Regional Medical Center.
She was born Sept. 15, 1927, at Langdon to Guy and Manilla (Nevius) Elsworth. She spent her early childhood there and attended her first three years of school at Langdon. In 1936 she moved with her parents to a farm southeast of Parsons and attended Liberty School. She then moved with her parents to a farm on the north edge of the Kansas Army Ammunition Plant east of Parsons and attended Labette County Community High School until her marriage to Joseph "Joe" Rhodes on Oct. 7, 1944, in the city of Labette.
She accompanied her husband to Paso Robles, California, and later Alabama, while he was serving in the U.S. Army. When he was deployed overseas during World War II, Ellen returned to Kansas. Upon his honorable discharge from the Army, they lived in Altamont, Oswego, Parsons and Coffeyville before buying a home in Edna in 1952. Joe preceded her in death on July 26, 2005.
Ellen worked 27 years as a bus driver for Labette County USD 506 and three years as a substitute driver. Every summer for many years Ellen and Joe drove a bus to take children to the Bible Impact Ministries (formerly Rural Bible Crusade) summer camp and worked at the camp for the week. She was an accomplished seamstress and an excellent cook and spent many hours crocheting afghans for her children and grandchildren that they still enjoy today. Ellen was a member of First Baptist Church of Edna.
She is survived by six of her seven children, Sue Sovereign and her husband, David, of Altadena, California, Sandra Nash and her husband, Arthur, of Altamont, John Rhodes of Tulsa, Mark Rhodes and his wife, Amy, of Buffalo, Naomi Smith and her husband, Oral, of Edna and Philip Rhodes and his wife, Jeni, of LaVeta, Colorado; 22 grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren (with another on the way); and a great-great-grandchild.
In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by her parents; three brothers, Vernon, Virgil and Norman Elsworth; a daughter, Nancy Patton; a granddaughter, Lisa Nash Zook; a grandson, Randy Nash; and a great-grandson, Nathan Hunt.
The service will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at First Baptist Church in Edna. Burial will be at Edna Elm Grove Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at Bath-Forbes-Hoffman Funeral Home, Altamont.
Memorials are suggested to Bible Impact Ministries for her grandson Adam Rhodes' ministry at Whispering Winds Bible Camp and may be left at or mailed to the funeral home, P.O. Box 325, Altamont, KS 67330.
Online condolences may be left at www.forbeshoffman.com.
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She had been residing at Windsor Place nursing home in Coffeyville, Kansas since October 2015.
Obituary from "The Parsons Sun", Friday, March 10, 2017:
COFFEYVILLE — Ellen Jeanette Rhodes, 89, of Coffeyville, a former longtime resident of Edna, passed away at 6:05 a.m. Thursday, March 9, 2017, at Coffeyville Regional Medical Center.
She was born Sept. 15, 1927, at Langdon to Guy and Manilla (Nevius) Elsworth. She spent her early childhood there and attended her first three years of school at Langdon. In 1936 she moved with her parents to a farm southeast of Parsons and attended Liberty School. She then moved with her parents to a farm on the north edge of the Kansas Army Ammunition Plant east of Parsons and attended Labette County Community High School until her marriage to Joseph "Joe" Rhodes on Oct. 7, 1944, in the city of Labette.
She accompanied her husband to Paso Robles, California, and later Alabama, while he was serving in the U.S. Army. When he was deployed overseas during World War II, Ellen returned to Kansas. Upon his honorable discharge from the Army, they lived in Altamont, Oswego, Parsons and Coffeyville before buying a home in Edna in 1952. Joe preceded her in death on July 26, 2005.
Ellen worked 27 years as a bus driver for Labette County USD 506 and three years as a substitute driver. Every summer for many years Ellen and Joe drove a bus to take children to the Bible Impact Ministries (formerly Rural Bible Crusade) summer camp and worked at the camp for the week. She was an accomplished seamstress and an excellent cook and spent many hours crocheting afghans for her children and grandchildren that they still enjoy today. Ellen was a member of First Baptist Church of Edna.
She is survived by six of her seven children, Sue Sovereign and her husband, David, of Altadena, California, Sandra Nash and her husband, Arthur, of Altamont, John Rhodes of Tulsa, Mark Rhodes and his wife, Amy, of Buffalo, Naomi Smith and her husband, Oral, of Edna and Philip Rhodes and his wife, Jeni, of LaVeta, Colorado; 22 grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren (with another on the way); and a great-great-grandchild.
In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by her parents; three brothers, Vernon, Virgil and Norman Elsworth; a daughter, Nancy Patton; a granddaughter, Lisa Nash Zook; a grandson, Randy Nash; and a great-grandson, Nathan Hunt.
The service will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at First Baptist Church in Edna. Burial will be at Edna Elm Grove Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at Bath-Forbes-Hoffman Funeral Home, Altamont.
Memorials are suggested to Bible Impact Ministries for her grandson Adam Rhodes' ministry at Whispering Winds Bible Camp and may be left at or mailed to the funeral home, P.O. Box 325, Altamont, KS 67330.
Online condolences may be left at www.forbeshoffman.com.
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She had been residing at Windsor Place nursing home in Coffeyville, Kansas since October 2015.
COFFEYVILLE — Ellen Jeanette Rhodes, 89, of Coffeyville, a former longtime resident of Edna, passed away at 6:05 a.m. Thursday, March 9, 2017, at Coffeyville Regional Medical Center.
She was born Sept. 15, 1927, at Langdon to Guy and Manilla (Nevius) Elsworth. She spent her early childhood there and attended her first three years of school at Langdon. In 1936 she moved with her parents to a farm southeast of Parsons and attended Liberty School. She then moved with her parents to a farm on the north edge of the Kansas Army Ammunition Plant east of Parsons and attended Labette County Community High School until her marriage to Joseph "Joe" Rhodes on Oct. 7, 1944, in the city of Labette.
She accompanied her husband to Paso Robles, California, and later Alabama, while he was serving in the U.S. Army. When he was deployed overseas during World War II, Ellen returned to Kansas. Upon his honorable discharge from the Army, they lived in Altamont, Oswego, Parsons and Coffeyville before buying a home in Edna in 1952. Joe preceded her in death on July 26, 2005.
Ellen worked 27 years as a bus driver for Labette County USD 506 and three years as a substitute driver. Every summer for many years Ellen and Joe drove a bus to take children to the Bible Impact Ministries (formerly Rural Bible Crusade) summer camp and worked at the camp for the week. She was an accomplished seamstress and an excellent cook and spent many hours crocheting afghans for her children and grandchildren that they still enjoy today. Ellen was a member of First Baptist Church of Edna.
She is survived by six of her seven children, Sue Sovereign and her husband, David, of Altadena, California, Sandra Nash and her husband, Arthur, of Altamont, John Rhodes of Tulsa, Mark Rhodes and his wife, Amy, of Buffalo, Naomi Smith and her husband, Oral, of Edna and Philip Rhodes and his wife, Jeni, of LaVeta, Colorado; 22 grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren (with another on the way); and a great-great-grandchild.
In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by her parents; three brothers, Vernon, Virgil and Norman Elsworth; a daughter, Nancy Patton; a granddaughter, Lisa Nash Zook; a grandson, Randy Nash; and a great-grandson, Nathan Hunt.
The service will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at First Baptist Church in Edna. Burial will be at Edna Elm Grove Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at Bath-Forbes-Hoffman Funeral Home, Altamont.
Memorials are suggested to Bible Impact Ministries for her grandson Adam Rhodes' ministry at Whispering Winds Bible Camp and may be left at or mailed to the funeral home, P.O. Box 325, Altamont, KS 67330.
Online condolences may be left at www.forbeshoffman.com.
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She had been residing at Windsor Place nursing home in Coffeyville, Kansas since October 2015.
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