Ethel Mae (Myers) Throckmorton

Female 1917 - 2015  (97 years)


 

Throckmorton, Ethel Mae Myers

The Newton Kansan

Ethel Mae Myers Throckmorton

1917 - 2015 | Obituary

Ethel Mae Myers Throckmorton, December 24, 1917 to March 28, 2015. The daughter of William and Maud Myers, she was born on Christmas Eve in Irwin, Missouri, a beautiful Christmas present to her family. Ethel contracted the famous bird flu in 1918. She surprised everyone and lived for almost a century.

After graduation from Lamar, Missouri, High School she married Fred Throckmorton and they were wed for 53 years until his death in 1989. Fred and Ethel lived in Kansas most of their married life.

Ethel was kind, cheerful, gentle, strong, resilient. Graciously she accepted what life offered and always looked forward. She was a wonderful friend, daughter, wife, mother and grandmother, a gardener, consummate pie baker and an ardent Jayhawk basketball fan. Some of our favorite memories of Ethel are the stories she told of growing up in rural Missouri. She walked a mile to school at age five, learned to drive at age twelve and shared many stories of the Great Depression.

She was preceded in death by her parents, sister Lorene, husband Fred, and her son Garry. She is survived by a daughter Linda (Mac) Gyllenhaal of Tucson and two grandchildren, Kirsten Bert of Tucson, and Kyle Bert of Bozeman. She is also survived by her dear friend Verna Classen of Newton.

The last years of her life were lived in Asbury Park in Newton and the family wishes to express gratitude for their care of Ethel. Burial was in the Iantha, Missouri, cemetery. Donations in Ethel's memory may be made to Asbury Park, 200 SW 14th, Newton, KS 67114.

Published in The Kansan from Apr. 11 to Apr. 13, 2015


Owner of originalHarvey County Genealogical Society
Date11 Apr 2015
Linked toEthel Mae (Myers) Throckmorton




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