Funeral services will be held 1:00 p.m. Saturday, March 10, 2012 at the Zion Lutheran Church in Argonia with Deacon John Schlickau officiating. Burial will be in the Argonia Cemetery.
Visitation will be held 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Friday at Prairie Rose in ANTHONY and 10:00 a.m. to service Saturday at the Zion Lutheran Church.
In lieu of flowers, memorials in memory of Verna Lee may be given to the Argonia Fire Department and may be sent in care of the funeral home.
Prairie Rose Funeral Homes, Inc., 602 E. Main St. ~ Anthony, KS 67003, is in charge of arrangements.
Verna Lee Coleman went to the eternal peace of Heaven on March 7, 2012.
Verna Lee Pagenkopf was born January 4th, 1927 on a farm southwest of Nashville Kansas. She was raised as a farm girl and attended school in Nashville until the family moved to Sharon, Ks. in 1937. She attended Grade School and High School in Sharon and graduated as Valedictorian of her senior class.
In 1944 the Pagenkopf family moved to Argonia, Ks. to enter the cafe business and there she met and married Fredrick W. Coleman on March 13th 1948. They entered farm life in the Argonia/Danville, Ks. area and raised three children, James Allen (w. Becky Schon), Danville, Ks, Erle Stanley (w. Linda Voth), Winfield, Ks, and Katherine Ann Coleman/ Blanchat, Wichita, Ks.
Verna Lee loved farm life and being a farmer's wife. She and Fred worked the land for over 50 years and finally settled on the Coleman Family Farmstead in 1970. They worked hard to be productive farmers and good stewards of the land.
As a second simultaneous career, in 1960, Mrs. Coleman went to work for Raymond J. and Jim Cline as the editor of Argonia news for the Argonia Argosy-Conway Springs Star. This is a job she would hold for the next fifty years as she covered and photographed news in Argonia and the surrounding area.
As a separate career, Verna Lee went to night school in Wichita, Ks. to gain a Real Estate Sales and Broker's License. Over the years she sold many properties in and around Argonia and helped her husband Fred purchase farm ground.
Mrs. Coleman was a community activist whose goal was to serve her community, to highlight its features of interest and to keep the city of Argonia strong and vital. Her projects and interests included The Salter House, The Argonia PRIDE awards, The Argonia City Park and Swimming Pool, the Rodeo Grounds, the Argonia River Walk and numerous other projects.
1n the 1980's, Verna Lee attended and graduated from Kansas State University with a degree in Social Work. She used this degree in conjunction with her career as a Regional Manager of the Kansas SRS Homemaker Program. Mrs. Coleman recruited, trained and placed homemakers in the homes of Kansas elderly clients to help manage those households and to help elderly Kansans remain in their homes as long as possible.
Verna Lee's careers in the Argonia/Danville/Conway Springs area gave her access to interesting and historical people, information and photographs from the early pioneer days to the present. Mrs. Coleman collected a vast array of photographs and data which she shared with many in the region and these archives now reside at the Salter House Museum in Argonia.
Verna Lee was a Lifelong Learner and her goal was to read and report on as many books as she could. Those books number in the thousands and she used the information and knowledge to further her goal of making her family and her hometown the best they could be. Verna Lee exhibited her learning skills most keenly of late in using and accessing information by computer. She wrote her newspaper articles and transmitted them on-line and she was active on Facebook and with emails to numerous friends and family.
Verna Lee Coleman will be missed by family and by her large number of friends and acquaintances in the Argonia area and throughout the State of Kansas.
Mrs. Coleman is survived by her three children, twelve grandchildren, sixteen great- grandchildren, and by her brother Ben L. Pangekopf (w. Joy Nelson) Litchfield Park, Az.
Those who have preceded her in eternal reward are: husband Fred, father Ed Pagenkopf, mother Anna Kuehn/Pagenkopf, sister Leona Pagenkopf/Hart and Leona's husband Jim Hart.
Visitation will be held 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Friday at Prairie Rose in ANTHONY and 10:00 a.m. to service Saturday at the Zion Lutheran Church.
In lieu of flowers, memorials in memory of Verna Lee may be given to the Argonia Fire Department and may be sent in care of the funeral home.
Prairie Rose Funeral Homes, Inc., 602 E. Main St. ~ Anthony, KS 67003, is in charge of arrangements.
Verna Lee Coleman went to the eternal peace of Heaven on March 7, 2012.
Verna Lee Pagenkopf was born January 4th, 1927 on a farm southwest of Nashville Kansas. She was raised as a farm girl and attended school in Nashville until the family moved to Sharon, Ks. in 1937. She attended Grade School and High School in Sharon and graduated as Valedictorian of her senior class.
In 1944 the Pagenkopf family moved to Argonia, Ks. to enter the cafe business and there she met and married Fredrick W. Coleman on March 13th 1948. They entered farm life in the Argonia/Danville, Ks. area and raised three children, James Allen (w. Becky Schon), Danville, Ks, Erle Stanley (w. Linda Voth), Winfield, Ks, and Katherine Ann Coleman/ Blanchat, Wichita, Ks.
Verna Lee loved farm life and being a farmer's wife. She and Fred worked the land for over 50 years and finally settled on the Coleman Family Farmstead in 1970. They worked hard to be productive farmers and good stewards of the land.
As a second simultaneous career, in 1960, Mrs. Coleman went to work for Raymond J. and Jim Cline as the editor of Argonia news for the Argonia Argosy-Conway Springs Star. This is a job she would hold for the next fifty years as she covered and photographed news in Argonia and the surrounding area.
As a separate career, Verna Lee went to night school in Wichita, Ks. to gain a Real Estate Sales and Broker's License. Over the years she sold many properties in and around Argonia and helped her husband Fred purchase farm ground.
Mrs. Coleman was a community activist whose goal was to serve her community, to highlight its features of interest and to keep the city of Argonia strong and vital. Her projects and interests included The Salter House, The Argonia PRIDE awards, The Argonia City Park and Swimming Pool, the Rodeo Grounds, the Argonia River Walk and numerous other projects.
1n the 1980's, Verna Lee attended and graduated from Kansas State University with a degree in Social Work. She used this degree in conjunction with her career as a Regional Manager of the Kansas SRS Homemaker Program. Mrs. Coleman recruited, trained and placed homemakers in the homes of Kansas elderly clients to help manage those households and to help elderly Kansans remain in their homes as long as possible.
Verna Lee's careers in the Argonia/Danville/Conway Springs area gave her access to interesting and historical people, information and photographs from the early pioneer days to the present. Mrs. Coleman collected a vast array of photographs and data which she shared with many in the region and these archives now reside at the Salter House Museum in Argonia.
Verna Lee was a Lifelong Learner and her goal was to read and report on as many books as she could. Those books number in the thousands and she used the information and knowledge to further her goal of making her family and her hometown the best they could be. Verna Lee exhibited her learning skills most keenly of late in using and accessing information by computer. She wrote her newspaper articles and transmitted them on-line and she was active on Facebook and with emails to numerous friends and family.
Verna Lee Coleman will be missed by family and by her large number of friends and acquaintances in the Argonia area and throughout the State of Kansas.
Mrs. Coleman is survived by her three children, twelve grandchildren, sixteen great- grandchildren, and by her brother Ben L. Pangekopf (w. Joy Nelson) Litchfield Park, Az.
Those who have preceded her in eternal reward are: husband Fred, father Ed Pagenkopf, mother Anna Kuehn/Pagenkopf, sister Leona Pagenkopf/Hart and Leona's husband Jim Hart.
Funeral services will be held 1:00 p.m. Saturday, March 10, 2012 at the Zion Lutheran Church in Argonia with Deacon John Schlickau officiating. Burial will be in the Argonia Cemetery.
Visitation will be held 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Friday at Prairie Rose in ANTHONY and 10:00 a.m. to service Saturday at the Zion Lutheran Church.
In lieu of flowers, memorials in memory of Verna Lee may be given to the Argonia Fire Department and may be sent in care of the funeral home.
Prairie Rose Funeral Homes, Inc., 602 E. Main St. ~ Anthony, KS 67003, is in charge of arrangements.
Verna Lee Coleman went to the eternal peace of Heaven on March 7, 2012.
Verna Lee Pagenkopf was born January 4th, 1927 on a farm southwest of Nashville Kansas. She was raised as a farm girl and attended school in Nashville until the family moved to Sharon, Ks. in 1937. She attended Grade School and High School in Sharon and graduated as Valedictorian of her senior class.
In 1944 the Pagenkopf family moved to Argonia, Ks. to enter the cafe business and there she met and married Fredrick W. Coleman on March 13th 1948. They entered farm life in the Argonia/Danville, Ks. area and raised three children, James Allen (w. Becky Schon), Danville, Ks, Erle Stanley (w. Linda Voth), Winfield, Ks, and Katherine Ann Coleman/ Blanchat, Wichita, Ks.
Verna Lee loved farm life and being a farmer's wife. She and Fred worked the land for over 50 years and finally settled on the Coleman Family Farmstead in 1970. They worked hard to be productive farmers and good stewards of the land.
As a second simultaneous career, in 1960, Mrs. Coleman went to work for Raymond J. and Jim Cline as the editor of Argonia news for the Argonia Argosy-Conway Springs Star. This is a job she would hold for the next fifty years as she covered and photographed news in Argonia and the surrounding area.
As a separate career, Verna Lee went to night school in Wichita, Ks. to gain a Real Estate Sales and Broker's License. Over the years she sold many properties in and around Argonia and helped her husband Fred purchase farm ground.
Mrs. Coleman was a community activist whose goal was to serve her community, to highlight its features of interest and to keep the city of Argonia strong and vital. Her projects and interests included The Salter House, The Argonia PRIDE awards, The Argonia City Park and Swimming Pool, the Rodeo Grounds, the Argonia River Walk and numerous other projects.
1n the 1980's, Verna Lee attended and graduated from Kansas State University with a degree in Social Work. She used this degree in conjunction with her career as a Regional Manager of the Kansas SRS Homemaker Program. Mrs. Coleman recruited, trained and placed homemakers in the homes of Kansas elderly clients to help manage those households and to help elderly Kansans remain in their homes as long as possible.
Verna Lee's careers in the Argonia/Danville/Conway Springs area gave her access to interesting and historical people, information and photographs from the early pioneer days to the present. Mrs. Coleman collected a vast array of photographs and data which she shared with many in the region and these archives now reside at the Salter House Museum in Argonia.
Verna Lee was a Lifelong Learner and her goal was to read and report on as many books as she could. Those books number in the thousands and she used the information and knowledge to further her goal of making her family and her hometown the best they could be. Verna Lee exhibited her learning skills most keenly of late in using and accessing information by computer. She wrote her newspaper articles and transmitted them on-line and she was active on Facebook and with emails to numerous friends and family.
Verna Lee Coleman will be missed by family and by her large number of friends and acquaintances in the Argonia area and throughout the State of Kansas.
Mrs. Coleman is survived by her three children, twelve grandchildren, sixteen great- grandchildren, and by her brother Ben L. Pangekopf (w. Joy Nelson) Litchfield Park, Az.
Those who have preceded her in eternal reward are: husband Fred, father Ed Pagenkopf, mother Anna Kuehn/Pagenkopf, sister Leona Pagenkopf/Hart and Leona's husband Jim Hart.
Visitation will be held 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Friday at Prairie Rose in ANTHONY and 10:00 a.m. to service Saturday at the Zion Lutheran Church.
In lieu of flowers, memorials in memory of Verna Lee may be given to the Argonia Fire Department and may be sent in care of the funeral home.
Prairie Rose Funeral Homes, Inc., 602 E. Main St. ~ Anthony, KS 67003, is in charge of arrangements.
Verna Lee Coleman went to the eternal peace of Heaven on March 7, 2012.
Verna Lee Pagenkopf was born January 4th, 1927 on a farm southwest of Nashville Kansas. She was raised as a farm girl and attended school in Nashville until the family moved to Sharon, Ks. in 1937. She attended Grade School and High School in Sharon and graduated as Valedictorian of her senior class.
In 1944 the Pagenkopf family moved to Argonia, Ks. to enter the cafe business and there she met and married Fredrick W. Coleman on March 13th 1948. They entered farm life in the Argonia/Danville, Ks. area and raised three children, James Allen (w. Becky Schon), Danville, Ks, Erle Stanley (w. Linda Voth), Winfield, Ks, and Katherine Ann Coleman/ Blanchat, Wichita, Ks.
Verna Lee loved farm life and being a farmer's wife. She and Fred worked the land for over 50 years and finally settled on the Coleman Family Farmstead in 1970. They worked hard to be productive farmers and good stewards of the land.
As a second simultaneous career, in 1960, Mrs. Coleman went to work for Raymond J. and Jim Cline as the editor of Argonia news for the Argonia Argosy-Conway Springs Star. This is a job she would hold for the next fifty years as she covered and photographed news in Argonia and the surrounding area.
As a separate career, Verna Lee went to night school in Wichita, Ks. to gain a Real Estate Sales and Broker's License. Over the years she sold many properties in and around Argonia and helped her husband Fred purchase farm ground.
Mrs. Coleman was a community activist whose goal was to serve her community, to highlight its features of interest and to keep the city of Argonia strong and vital. Her projects and interests included The Salter House, The Argonia PRIDE awards, The Argonia City Park and Swimming Pool, the Rodeo Grounds, the Argonia River Walk and numerous other projects.
1n the 1980's, Verna Lee attended and graduated from Kansas State University with a degree in Social Work. She used this degree in conjunction with her career as a Regional Manager of the Kansas SRS Homemaker Program. Mrs. Coleman recruited, trained and placed homemakers in the homes of Kansas elderly clients to help manage those households and to help elderly Kansans remain in their homes as long as possible.
Verna Lee's careers in the Argonia/Danville/Conway Springs area gave her access to interesting and historical people, information and photographs from the early pioneer days to the present. Mrs. Coleman collected a vast array of photographs and data which she shared with many in the region and these archives now reside at the Salter House Museum in Argonia.
Verna Lee was a Lifelong Learner and her goal was to read and report on as many books as she could. Those books number in the thousands and she used the information and knowledge to further her goal of making her family and her hometown the best they could be. Verna Lee exhibited her learning skills most keenly of late in using and accessing information by computer. She wrote her newspaper articles and transmitted them on-line and she was active on Facebook and with emails to numerous friends and family.
Verna Lee Coleman will be missed by family and by her large number of friends and acquaintances in the Argonia area and throughout the State of Kansas.
Mrs. Coleman is survived by her three children, twelve grandchildren, sixteen great- grandchildren, and by her brother Ben L. Pangekopf (w. Joy Nelson) Litchfield Park, Az.
Those who have preceded her in eternal reward are: husband Fred, father Ed Pagenkopf, mother Anna Kuehn/Pagenkopf, sister Leona Pagenkopf/Hart and Leona's husband Jim Hart.
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