FRANCES NELLE CROOK STAEDTLER

FRANCES CROOK STAEDTLER Emporia, Dateline Frances C. Staedtler, 90. died Thursday, April 24, 2008, at Newman Regional Health in Emporia, Kansas. A celebration of life service will be held Tuesday, April 29, 2008, at 10:00 A.M. at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in Emporia with The Rev. John E. Davis officiating. Burial will follow at Hillside Cemetery in rural Toledo Township, Kansas. The daughter of Guy Russell and Grace King Sedgwick Crook, Frances Nelle Crook was born February 22, 1918, in Saffordville, Kansas. She graduated from Saffordville High School in 1935, graduated from Kansas State Teachers College with a Master’s degree in Music in 1972. She and Alfred C. Staedtler of Plano, Texas, were married February 14, 1947, in Ottawa, Kansas. In the early years of their marriage, their marriage,. The Staedtlers were headquartered in Shreveport, Louisiana, where Mr. Staedtlers worked with a company laying municipal pipe. Later, they came to the Crook farm at Safforville. Mr. Staedtler preceded her in death January 21, 1993. Mrs. Staedtler was an elementary music teacher at Saffordville for 25 years. She, also, worked as an inventory controller for both Montgomery Ward and J.C. Penney. She was featured as the "Woman of the Week" in the Emporia Gazette in the summer of 1969. She was a member of St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in Emporia where she served as a council member, youth leader, and on various committees. She was a Past Matron of Jomaria Chapter of the Eastern Star as well as a 50-year member of the order. In the past, her memberships had included the American Association of University Women and Delta Kappa Gamma. She is survived by a first cousin, Jean Granger of Burlingame, Kansas, and numerous nieces, nephews, and friends. She was preceded in death by a brother, Robert Guy Crook and her parents. Messages to the family sent to www.brown-bennett-alexander.com. The family will meet friends at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church on Monday from 5:00 until 7:30 P.M. Friends may call at the Brown-Bennett-Alexander Funeral on Monday from 9:00 A.M. until 2:00 P.M. Memorial contributions, in lieu of flowers, to St. Mark’s Lutheran Church may be sent in care of the funeral home, 201 Cherry, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas 66845.

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