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Kraft, Mae Maloney

Dies Following Lengthy Illness.

Funeral Services For Mrs. Mae Kraft, Strong City, Held Wednesday Morning.

Mrs. Edward J. Kraft, who had been in ill health for the last six years, died Sunday at the Conklin Rest Home in Strong City where she had been a patient three years. Mrs. Kraft who had resided in Strong City a number of years ago, returned there in 1946 after having made her home in Topeka and Wichita.

Funeral Services were conducted at 9:30 o'clock, Wednesday morning, Oct. 29, at St. Anthony's Catholic Church, Strong City, with the Rev. Father C, A. Landis in charge.

The pallbearers were William Bechel mayr; Karl Stubenhofer, Howard Stubenhofer, Gerald Dieker, Martin Deragisch and William E. Brown. Burial was made in St Anthony's Cemetery. Recitation of the Rosary was held Tuesday evening at 7:30 o'clock at the Brown Funeral home.

Mae Maloney Kraft was born June 13, 1885 at St Albans, Vermont, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Maloney. She married Edward J. Kraft in 1906 at Topeka. They were the parents of two children. Mrs. Maloney previously worked in dry goods stores in Cottonwood Falls. She was a member of St. Anthony's Church and St Anthony's Altar Society, She had been a devoted worker in St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Wichita, when she lived in that City.

Surviving Mrs. Kraft are one son, Joseph Kraft, and one daughter-in- law, Lois Kraft, Little Rock, Ark.; two grandchildren; two brothers, Joseph Maloney, Strong City, and Ed Maloney, Emporia. six sisters, Miss Frankie Maloney, Strong City, Miss Laura Maloney and Mrs. T. J. Davis of Newton; Mrs. George Nesladek and Mrs. Walter Teat, Topeka; and Mrs. Vern Stocker, Cherokee.

She was preceded in death by her husband in 1940 and her daughter, Mrs. Harold Wiebrecht. Relatives from out of town here for the services were Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kraft and son, Fayetteville, Ark.; Mr. and Mrs. George Nesladek, Topeka; Mr. and Mrs. Joe Dunn and Marilyn, and Mrs. Vern Stocker, Pittsburg; E. S. Maloney and Mrs. Wallace Evans, Emporia; Mrs. Tom Davis. Miss Marlyn Davis, and Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Anderson, Newton; Mrs. S. F. Ditmars and Mr. and Mrs. Choc Greenwood, Muskogee, Okla.; Mr, and Mrs. Theodore Kraft, Hutchinson.

Chase County Leader-News, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, Oct.29, 1958





Chase County Death Notices and Obituaries,
compiled and abstracted from the Chase County Courant and Chase County Leader Newspapers
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