Taken from the Leavenworth Times 6-26-1951
Mrs. Frances Coldren Dies
Mrs. Frances Estella Coldren, a Leavenworth Countian for more than 42 years, died at 11 a.m. yesterday at Missouri Methodist Hospital, St. Joseph.
Mrs. Coldren, whose home was on RR 1, had been in failing health for two years. She suffered a cerebral hemorrhage Sunday morning while visiting a son in St. Joseph.
BORN Feb. 20, 1876, at Sioux City Ia., Mrs. Coldren was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Levi Showalter. The family moved a few years later to Butler, Mo., and Mrs. Coldren was educated there, then taught school several years at Butler.
She was married in 1900 to Mark S. Clay, who died ten years later. Mrs. Coldren came to Leavenworth then, and worked for several years in the adjutant's office at the Soldiers Home at Wadsworth, now the Veterans Administration Center.
On Oct. 17, 1914, she was married at St. Joseph to John Coldren. Mr. Coldren, who for a number of years operated a rock quarry here, died Jan. 16, 1945.
MRS. COLDREN, member of the Salem Evangelical Church.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Frances Ruth Woodard of RR 1; two sons, Paul Clay of St. Joseph and Emery Clay, Portland, Ore., seven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be at 2 pm. Wednesday at the Sexton Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Raymond Coldren, pastor of the Baptist church at Holt, Mo., will officiate. Burial will be in Mount Muncie Cemetery.
The body is at the Sexton chapel.
Mrs. Frances Coldren Dies
Mrs. Frances Estella Coldren, a Leavenworth Countian for more than 42 years, died at 11 a.m. yesterday at Missouri Methodist Hospital, St. Joseph.
Mrs. Coldren, whose home was on RR 1, had been in failing health for two years. She suffered a cerebral hemorrhage Sunday morning while visiting a son in St. Joseph.
BORN Feb. 20, 1876, at Sioux City Ia., Mrs. Coldren was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Levi Showalter. The family moved a few years later to Butler, Mo., and Mrs. Coldren was educated there, then taught school several years at Butler.
She was married in 1900 to Mark S. Clay, who died ten years later. Mrs. Coldren came to Leavenworth then, and worked for several years in the adjutant's office at the Soldiers Home at Wadsworth, now the Veterans Administration Center.
On Oct. 17, 1914, she was married at St. Joseph to John Coldren. Mr. Coldren, who for a number of years operated a rock quarry here, died Jan. 16, 1945.
MRS. COLDREN, member of the Salem Evangelical Church.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Frances Ruth Woodard of RR 1; two sons, Paul Clay of St. Joseph and Emery Clay, Portland, Ore., seven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be at 2 pm. Wednesday at the Sexton Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Raymond Coldren, pastor of the Baptist church at Holt, Mo., will officiate. Burial will be in Mount Muncie Cemetery.
The body is at the Sexton chapel.
Taken from the Leavenworth Times 6-26-1951
Mrs. Frances Coldren Dies
Mrs. Frances Estella Coldren, a Leavenworth Countian for more than 42 years, died at 11 a.m. yesterday at Missouri Methodist Hospital, St. Joseph.
Mrs. Coldren, whose home was on RR 1, had been in failing health for two years. She suffered a cerebral hemorrhage Sunday morning while visiting a son in St. Joseph.
BORN Feb. 20, 1876, at Sioux City Ia., Mrs. Coldren was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Levi Showalter. The family moved a few years later to Butler, Mo., and Mrs. Coldren was educated there, then taught school several years at Butler.
She was married in 1900 to Mark S. Clay, who died ten years later. Mrs. Coldren came to Leavenworth then, and worked for several years in the adjutant's office at the Soldiers Home at Wadsworth, now the Veterans Administration Center.
On Oct. 17, 1914, she was married at St. Joseph to John Coldren. Mr. Coldren, who for a number of years operated a rock quarry here, died Jan. 16, 1945.
MRS. COLDREN, member of the Salem Evangelical Church.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Frances Ruth Woodard of RR 1; two sons, Paul Clay of St. Joseph and Emery Clay, Portland, Ore., seven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be at 2 pm. Wednesday at the Sexton Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Raymond Coldren, pastor of the Baptist church at Holt, Mo., will officiate. Burial will be in Mount Muncie Cemetery.
The body is at the Sexton chapel.
Mrs. Frances Coldren Dies
Mrs. Frances Estella Coldren, a Leavenworth Countian for more than 42 years, died at 11 a.m. yesterday at Missouri Methodist Hospital, St. Joseph.
Mrs. Coldren, whose home was on RR 1, had been in failing health for two years. She suffered a cerebral hemorrhage Sunday morning while visiting a son in St. Joseph.
BORN Feb. 20, 1876, at Sioux City Ia., Mrs. Coldren was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Levi Showalter. The family moved a few years later to Butler, Mo., and Mrs. Coldren was educated there, then taught school several years at Butler.
She was married in 1900 to Mark S. Clay, who died ten years later. Mrs. Coldren came to Leavenworth then, and worked for several years in the adjutant's office at the Soldiers Home at Wadsworth, now the Veterans Administration Center.
On Oct. 17, 1914, she was married at St. Joseph to John Coldren. Mr. Coldren, who for a number of years operated a rock quarry here, died Jan. 16, 1945.
MRS. COLDREN, member of the Salem Evangelical Church.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Frances Ruth Woodard of RR 1; two sons, Paul Clay of St. Joseph and Emery Clay, Portland, Ore., seven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be at 2 pm. Wednesday at the Sexton Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Raymond Coldren, pastor of the Baptist church at Holt, Mo., will officiate. Burial will be in Mount Muncie Cemetery.
The body is at the Sexton chapel.
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