FUNERAL SERVICE Stockham Family Funeral Horne

McPherson, Kansas Wednesday, January 4,2012

OFFICIATING CLERGY Rev. Les Cantrell

Pastor, First Baptist Church

SPECIAL MUSIC "Face to Face"

Lindsey Shaw, vocalist Judy Shaw, pianist

CASKETBEARERS Bill Fuqua Gary Mehl LaRue Nelson

Lowell Nelson Jim Pauls Howard Stenzel

INTERMENT Windom Cemetery Windom, Kansas

MEMORIAL DONATIONS The family suggests that memorial donations be given to the First Baptist Church in loving memory of Frances.

ApPRECIATION On behalf of the family, we wish to express their sincere appreciation for all your kindnesses, evidenced in thought and deed and for your presence at this service.

Please Note: A joint memorial service for LeRoy and Frances will be held at 11 :00 AM, Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012, at the First Baptist Church.

Stockham Family Funeral Home

J'lU4.NC'ES L. 'Eil'WOOV jillY 15. 1915 ..., 'D'£C'V4.'B'£'R 24. 2011

I::if'Iranees L. Ellwood, 96, of McPherson and Windom,

... ,; . Kansas, passed away on Saturday, December 24, 2011, at her daughter's horne in Meridian, ID.

Frances was born on July 15, 1915, in New Carlisle, Ohio, the daughter of Rev. Paul Marshall and Nellie (Bucher) Marshall, and grew up in Methodist parsonages in Ohio, North Carolina, and Alabama.

On August 8, 1940, she was united in marriage to LeRoy A. Ellwood in Cincinnati, Ohio, whom she had met eight years earlier through a pen pal page in a Methodist Sunday School paper. They celebrated 71 years of marriage. LeRoy preceded her in death on October 4, 2011.

Mrs. Ellwood worked 11 years on McPherson Main Street as manager of the ladies department in Morris & Son Clothiers, retiring in 1977. She was best known, however, as a Bible teacher. For 24 years, she taught community Menninger Bible Courses in Windom and McPherson. She was also a life-long Sunday School teacher, and descipled many children and adults at the First Baptist Church, McPherson, where she was a member.

She is survived by two daughters, Beverly Hom and husband, Dale, of Meridian, Idaho and Barbara Seaman and husband, Le, of Lawrence, Kansas; three grandchildren, Sherry Sheets of Homedale, Idaho, Lori Oekerrnan of Portland, Oregon, and Derek Seaman of San Diego, California; six great-grandchildren, Mandy Shenk, Wendy Wall, Shane Sheets, Daniel Oekerrnan, Nathan Oekerrnan, and Elizabeth Oekerrnan; one great-great grandchild, Gwen Shenk; two sisters, Dorothy Ward and Marilyn Vincent, both of Cincinnati, Ohio; and one brother, William Marshall of Cincinnati, Ohio. She was preceded in death by her husband, LeRoy, a brother, Robert Marshall, and two sisters, Thelma Wright and Helen Snipes.

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