MC CLURE, Veda Elizabeh (Bennett) - b. May 7, 1917 - d. November 9, 2010

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Veda McClure was born in 1917 in Dexter, Kansas.  She passed away in a retirement center where she lived in Tahlequah, Oklahoma on November 9, 2010.  

After completing two years of college, she began teaching in rural schools in Cowley and Chautauqua counties in Kansas.  She was married to Elmer McClure in 1939, and the couple lived on a farm near Grand Summit where Elmer's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bill McClure, had lived. Later, they built a house on the old Grandpa Elmer Theodore Ellsworth McClure farm near Clover Dale.

Veda earned her Bachelor's Degree in Education from Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas.  She completed her teaching career after twenty two years in the Wichita Schools.  She taught in the one-room Clover Dale School and in the Grenola, Kansas schools in the 1960s.  Veda and Elmer were charter members of the Grenola Historical Society.

Elmer and Veda had two sons, Roger and David, who attended school at Clover Dale and graduated from Grenola High School.  

A graveside service was held at the Greenlawn Cemetery in Grenola, Kansas.  She was buried beside her husband who passed away in 2009.

(taken from the "Grenola Now and Then" column in the Prairie Star, 11/24/2010)

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Veda Elizabeth (Bennett) McClure was born May 7, 1917 in Dexter, Kansas.  Veda was the second daughter of Russell and Rozel (Rush) Bennett.  She passed away November 9, 2010 at the age of 93 at the Go Ye Village Retirement Center in Tahlequah, Oklahoma..

Veda grew up on a farm three miles east of Dexter, Kansas, attended grade school in a one-room rural schoolhouse, and graduated from Dexter High School.  She was a student at Phillips University in Enid, Oklahoma where she completed 62 credit hours and obtained an elementary school teaching certificate.  Her first teaching job was at a rural school in Cowley County, Kansas.  Later, Veda attended Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas where she received her Bachelor's Degree in Elementary Education in 1961.  After teaching in various county schools in Cowley and Chautauqua counties in Kansas she taught in the Wichita School System for 22 years, retiring from Black Elementary in 1976.  Over the years and especially after retiring, she became quite a skilled quilter and a maker of dolls, doll clothes, and teddy bears.

On June 24, 1939, Veda married Elmer Ellsworth McClure.  The couple lived and fared in the Grand Summit and Cloverdale areas.

Veda is survived by a sister, Freda Nellis of Arkansas City, Kansas; two sons, David and wife, Marilyn of Mulberry, Kansas and Roger of Somerset West, South Africa; two grandchildren, Bradley of Aurora, Colorado and Sandra and husband, Randy Brown of Topeka, Kansas; and a great-granddaughter, Clair Campbell Brown.  

Memorial services were held Friday, November 19,2010 in the Go Ye Village Chapel in Tahlequah, Oklahoma.  Ron Genheimer was the officiant.  Graveside services were held on Saturday, November 20, 2010 at the Greenlawn Cemetery in Grenola, Kansas.   Online condolences may be left at tahlequahfuneral.com.  

In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be sent to the Southwestern College Veda McClure Scholarship, 100 College Street, Winfield, Kansas 67167.

Arrangements were under the care of Green Country Funeral Home, 203 S. Commercial Road, Tahlequah, Okalhoma.

(taken from the Tahlequah Daily Press website)