Emporia Gazette, Saturday, 14 April 1979; p. 2
Stella Bixler
Graveside services for Mrs. Harold A. Bixler, 318 East Twelfth Ave., who died Thursday night, will be held this afternoon at 4 P.M. in the Patio Garden at Memorial Lawn Cemetery. The Rev. Michael J. Matheny of the First Congregational Church and the Rev. Stephen J. Williams will be in charge of the services.
Memorial contributions in Mrs. Bixler's name may be made to a fund at the First Congregational Church, sent in care of the Roberts-Blue-Barnett Funeral Home.
Stella M. Sparks, daughter of David and Mary Bryan Sparks, was born in Welch, Okla., Oct. 24, 1888. She married Harold A. Bixler in Odessa, Mo., April 22, 1907, and they moved to Emporia in 1916. Mr. Bixler died Dec. 28, 1950. Mrs. Bixler was a member of the First Congregational Church and the Mayflower Circle of the Women's Fellowship of the church. She also had been a member of Miriam Chapter 14, Order of the Eastern Star, the Floralore Founders Garden Club, and the American Association of Retired Persons.
Mrs. Bixler is survived by three sons, Paul H. Bixler, Deltona Beach, Fla., Hugo Bixler, 820 West St., and William H. Bixler, Denver, Colo.; three daughters, Lolita Axcell, Topeka, Ruth Downing, Lakin and Robert Keller, El Paso, Tex., 13 grandchildren and 31 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by three brothers, Earl, Oliver and Levi Sparks, and one sister, Ada Anderson.
Last October, when Mrs. Bixler celebrated her 90th birthday anniversary, all her children, grandchildren and great grand children were in Emporia. A dinner party was held at the First Congregation Church , with the women of the church preparing and serving the dinner.
Mrs. Bixler was The Gazette's Women of the Week on Aug. 8, 1964. The feature story read in part, "She stays forever young simply by thinking not of the years she has lived, but of things that can be done today. She puts Christian principles into practice. When a Cuban refugee was hospitalized she took flowers to his bedside. She has for the past six years made her home the home of students from Iran, Afghanistan, Cuba, India, Morocco, Japan Okinawa, Thailand Ethiopia and Mexico." Mrs. Bixler was quoted as saying, " You can have your own little Peace Corps right in your home."
Stella Bixler
Graveside services for Mrs. Harold A. Bixler, 318 East Twelfth Ave., who died Thursday night, will be held this afternoon at 4 P.M. in the Patio Garden at Memorial Lawn Cemetery. The Rev. Michael J. Matheny of the First Congregational Church and the Rev. Stephen J. Williams will be in charge of the services.
Memorial contributions in Mrs. Bixler's name may be made to a fund at the First Congregational Church, sent in care of the Roberts-Blue-Barnett Funeral Home.
Stella M. Sparks, daughter of David and Mary Bryan Sparks, was born in Welch, Okla., Oct. 24, 1888. She married Harold A. Bixler in Odessa, Mo., April 22, 1907, and they moved to Emporia in 1916. Mr. Bixler died Dec. 28, 1950. Mrs. Bixler was a member of the First Congregational Church and the Mayflower Circle of the Women's Fellowship of the church. She also had been a member of Miriam Chapter 14, Order of the Eastern Star, the Floralore Founders Garden Club, and the American Association of Retired Persons.
Mrs. Bixler is survived by three sons, Paul H. Bixler, Deltona Beach, Fla., Hugo Bixler, 820 West St., and William H. Bixler, Denver, Colo.; three daughters, Lolita Axcell, Topeka, Ruth Downing, Lakin and Robert Keller, El Paso, Tex., 13 grandchildren and 31 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by three brothers, Earl, Oliver and Levi Sparks, and one sister, Ada Anderson.
Last October, when Mrs. Bixler celebrated her 90th birthday anniversary, all her children, grandchildren and great grand children were in Emporia. A dinner party was held at the First Congregation Church , with the women of the church preparing and serving the dinner.
Mrs. Bixler was The Gazette's Women of the Week on Aug. 8, 1964. The feature story read in part, "She stays forever young simply by thinking not of the years she has lived, but of things that can be done today. She puts Christian principles into practice. When a Cuban refugee was hospitalized she took flowers to his bedside. She has for the past six years made her home the home of students from Iran, Afghanistan, Cuba, India, Morocco, Japan Okinawa, Thailand Ethiopia and Mexico." Mrs. Bixler was quoted as saying, " You can have your own little Peace Corps right in your home."
Emporia Gazette, Saturday, 14 April 1979; p. 2
Stella Bixler
Graveside services for Mrs. Harold A. Bixler, 318 East Twelfth Ave., who died Thursday night, will be held this afternoon at 4 P.M. in the Patio Garden at Memorial Lawn Cemetery. The Rev. Michael J. Matheny of the First Congregational Church and the Rev. Stephen J. Williams will be in charge of the services.
Memorial contributions in Mrs. Bixler's name may be made to a fund at the First Congregational Church, sent in care of the Roberts-Blue-Barnett Funeral Home.
Stella M. Sparks, daughter of David and Mary Bryan Sparks, was born in Welch, Okla., Oct. 24, 1888. She married Harold A. Bixler in Odessa, Mo., April 22, 1907, and they moved to Emporia in 1916. Mr. Bixler died Dec. 28, 1950. Mrs. Bixler was a member of the First Congregational Church and the Mayflower Circle of the Women's Fellowship of the church. She also had been a member of Miriam Chapter 14, Order of the Eastern Star, the Floralore Founders Garden Club, and the American Association of Retired Persons.
Mrs. Bixler is survived by three sons, Paul H. Bixler, Deltona Beach, Fla., Hugo Bixler, 820 West St., and William H. Bixler, Denver, Colo.; three daughters, Lolita Axcell, Topeka, Ruth Downing, Lakin and Robert Keller, El Paso, Tex., 13 grandchildren and 31 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by three brothers, Earl, Oliver and Levi Sparks, and one sister, Ada Anderson.
Last October, when Mrs. Bixler celebrated her 90th birthday anniversary, all her children, grandchildren and great grand children were in Emporia. A dinner party was held at the First Congregation Church , with the women of the church preparing and serving the dinner.
Mrs. Bixler was The Gazette's Women of the Week on Aug. 8, 1964. The feature story read in part, "She stays forever young simply by thinking not of the years she has lived, but of things that can be done today. She puts Christian principles into practice. When a Cuban refugee was hospitalized she took flowers to his bedside. She has for the past six years made her home the home of students from Iran, Afghanistan, Cuba, India, Morocco, Japan Okinawa, Thailand Ethiopia and Mexico." Mrs. Bixler was quoted as saying, " You can have your own little Peace Corps right in your home."
Stella Bixler
Graveside services for Mrs. Harold A. Bixler, 318 East Twelfth Ave., who died Thursday night, will be held this afternoon at 4 P.M. in the Patio Garden at Memorial Lawn Cemetery. The Rev. Michael J. Matheny of the First Congregational Church and the Rev. Stephen J. Williams will be in charge of the services.
Memorial contributions in Mrs. Bixler's name may be made to a fund at the First Congregational Church, sent in care of the Roberts-Blue-Barnett Funeral Home.
Stella M. Sparks, daughter of David and Mary Bryan Sparks, was born in Welch, Okla., Oct. 24, 1888. She married Harold A. Bixler in Odessa, Mo., April 22, 1907, and they moved to Emporia in 1916. Mr. Bixler died Dec. 28, 1950. Mrs. Bixler was a member of the First Congregational Church and the Mayflower Circle of the Women's Fellowship of the church. She also had been a member of Miriam Chapter 14, Order of the Eastern Star, the Floralore Founders Garden Club, and the American Association of Retired Persons.
Mrs. Bixler is survived by three sons, Paul H. Bixler, Deltona Beach, Fla., Hugo Bixler, 820 West St., and William H. Bixler, Denver, Colo.; three daughters, Lolita Axcell, Topeka, Ruth Downing, Lakin and Robert Keller, El Paso, Tex., 13 grandchildren and 31 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by three brothers, Earl, Oliver and Levi Sparks, and one sister, Ada Anderson.
Last October, when Mrs. Bixler celebrated her 90th birthday anniversary, all her children, grandchildren and great grand children were in Emporia. A dinner party was held at the First Congregation Church , with the women of the church preparing and serving the dinner.
Mrs. Bixler was The Gazette's Women of the Week on Aug. 8, 1964. The feature story read in part, "She stays forever young simply by thinking not of the years she has lived, but of things that can be done today. She puts Christian principles into practice. When a Cuban refugee was hospitalized she took flowers to his bedside. She has for the past six years made her home the home of students from Iran, Afghanistan, Cuba, India, Morocco, Japan Okinawa, Thailand Ethiopia and Mexico." Mrs. Bixler was quoted as saying, " You can have your own little Peace Corps right in your home."
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