BRYAN, Sarah Elizabeth (Miller) - b. January 5, 1914 - d. April 1, 2005

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Winfield Courier
Wednesday, April 6, 2005

HOWARD-- Sarah Elizabeth Bryan, 91, longtime resident of Wichita and formerly of Howard, died April 1, 2005, at the Halstead Health and Rehabilitation Center.  Services will be 11 a.m., Saturday at the Howard United Methodist Church.  Burial will be 2:30 p.m. Saturday in Cedar Vale Cemetery.

A memorial has been established with the Center of Basic Cancer research at Kansas State University.  Contributions may be left with Zimmerman Funeral Home.

Bryan was born Jan. 5, 1914, in Craig, Okla., to Nell (Grimes) and Dr. Edward Lewis Miller.  She graduated from Grainola (Okla) High school in 1932 and attended the University of Kansas.

On Oct. 2, 1932, she and Brooks Cecil Bryan married in Grainola.  She was a devoted wife and mother and worked with her husband in the operation of their automobile dealership in Howard.

Bryan was an accountant for both Ford and General Motors dealerships and worked actively until she retired from Don Hattan Chevolet in Wichita at the age of 80.

She was a longstanding member of the Rebekah Lodge in Howard and Ladonia Chapter 243 Order of Eastern Star in Elk Falls.  She was active in Executive Women International and the Republican Party, was a 4-H leader and a Cub Scout den mother and taught Sunday school as a member of the Howard United Methodist Church.  She served on the Howard school board and was a director at the Howard State Bank for 25 years.

Mr. Bryan died March 28, 1966.  A daughter, Linda Nighswonger Yacconi, also preceded her in death.

Survivors include a son, Paul E. Bryan, Valley Center, a daughter, Nella Hartley, Sterling; a sister, Margaret Olsen, Englewood, Colo., 12 grandchildren, 25 great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren.