MATHIS, Mary Margaret (Jordan) - b. January 3, 1925 - d. January 9, 2007

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Winfield Courier
Wednesday, January 10, 2007

WICHITA-- Mary Margaret Mathis, 82, died Jan. 9, 2007, at Lakewood Nursing Home in Wichita.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Thursday at the Green Lawn Cemetery in Grenola.  The Rev. Gale Trinbrook will officiate.  Swisher-Taylor & Morris Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.  Friends may call at Swisher-Taylor & Morris Funeral Home until 5 today.

Memorials are to Almond Tree Apartments, Attn: John Baten, 339 Country Acres, Wichita, KS  67212 and Winfield Rest Haven.

Mary Margaret was born Jan. 3, 1925, in Kansas City, Kan., to Glenn and Vera (Barker) Jordan.  She was raised and educated in Grenola.  After moving to Winfield, she worked for many years in the kitchen at Winfield High School and was later employed at Winfield Rest Haven as a dietitian.  Margaret loved and collected angels and on Jan. 9, 2007, she went to be with them.

She was preceded in death by her parents and a brother, Robert Jordan.

Survivors include her sons and their spouses, David and Marcia Murell and Larry and Debbie Stiffler, all of Winfield, Dennis and Susan Stiffler, Hutchinson, and Bruce and Kay Stiffler, Valley Center, her daughters and their spouses, Jean and L. D. Mathis, Stevensville, Mont., Susan and Ken Harper, Wichita, Lisa and Mike Oliver, Lenexa, and Chris and Alvin Adams and Donna and Jim Hughes, all of Winfield; brothers and their wives, Dick and Betty Jordan, El Dorado, and Carl and Cheryl Jordan, Winfield, sisters, Ethel Steward, Denver, Colo., Glenna Chamberlain, Lincoln, Neb., and Pat Murrell and her husband, Ralph, Winfield; 24 grandchildren and numerous great-grandchildren.

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I used to know this lady and have some memories of her.  One of them was teasing her about borrowing her little granddaughter's tricycle and putting chains around the wheels, as Mary was wanting to go visit someone in the hospital and the weather was snowy and icy, and she was wondering how she was going to get to the hospital. At that time, Mary didn't know how to drive, or even own a car.