Lois Magdalene Schlender, 78, of Emporia, Kansas died on November 29, 2010 at the Holiday Resort Care Center.
Lois Magdalene Voth was born on January 16, 1932 in Halstead, Kansas, the daughter of Edward Duerksen Voth and Bertha Voth Voth (Maiden Name is the same as the Married Name). Lois and her family moved to La Fontaine, Kansas (nine miles south of Fredonia) when she was five years old. She attended the La Fontaine School with the elementary and high school in the same building. When the family relocated to Walton, Kansas Lois finished the eighth grade at Sugar Grove School, and then went to Walton High School, and later graduated from Berean Academy in Elbing, Kansas.
Lois served in voluntary service with Mennonite Central Committee in Mississippi and New York during 1953 and 1954. Later she attended KU Florence Cook Department of Practical Nurse Education in Kansas City, Kansas, graduating in 1957. She worked in Newton, and then moved to Emporia to work at The Meadows nursing home in Emporia when it opened. That is where she met the love of her life, Roy Schlender, the son of one of her residents. They married on August 1, 1965 in Newton, Kansas and moved to his farm near Olpe, Kansas. During the time they lived there, she worked as a LPN in various places, and also in private duty. She traveled to Haiti on a short-term medical mission trips in 1987 and 1989; these experiences were very meaningful to her. Roy accompanied her on the second Haiti trip. Other travels included trips to Colorado and California.
Roy retired from the farm, and they moved to Emporia where Lois continued to do private duty in homes. She and Roy decided to move into an apartment at the Holiday Estates. Roy died on November 5, 2002 at the Holiday Resort Care Center in Emporia.
Lois accepted the Lord at an early age, and was baptized in the Walton Mennonite Church in 1947. She is currently a member of Grace United Methodist Church in Emporia.
She is survived by one Sister Ella E. Wiebe of Hillsboro, Kansas, and a brother Harold Voth and wife Margaret of Fresno, California. She is preceded in death by her parents; husband Roy; and two brothers, David and Daniel Voth.
The memorial service will be 10:30 Monday, December 6, 2010 Grace United Methodist Church. The service will be conducted by Pastor Earl Detwiler of the Grace United Methodist Church in Emporia. The private inurnment will be in the Pleasant Ridge Cemetery outside of Olpe, Kansas. Memorial contributions to Grace United Methodist Church may be sent in care of the funeral home. To order memorial trees or send flowers to the family in memory of Lois Magdalene Schlender, please visit our flower store.
Lois Magdalene Voth was born on January 16, 1932 in Halstead, Kansas, the daughter of Edward Duerksen Voth and Bertha Voth Voth (Maiden Name is the same as the Married Name). Lois and her family moved to La Fontaine, Kansas (nine miles south of Fredonia) when she was five years old. She attended the La Fontaine School with the elementary and high school in the same building. When the family relocated to Walton, Kansas Lois finished the eighth grade at Sugar Grove School, and then went to Walton High School, and later graduated from Berean Academy in Elbing, Kansas.
Lois served in voluntary service with Mennonite Central Committee in Mississippi and New York during 1953 and 1954. Later she attended KU Florence Cook Department of Practical Nurse Education in Kansas City, Kansas, graduating in 1957. She worked in Newton, and then moved to Emporia to work at The Meadows nursing home in Emporia when it opened. That is where she met the love of her life, Roy Schlender, the son of one of her residents. They married on August 1, 1965 in Newton, Kansas and moved to his farm near Olpe, Kansas. During the time they lived there, she worked as a LPN in various places, and also in private duty. She traveled to Haiti on a short-term medical mission trips in 1987 and 1989; these experiences were very meaningful to her. Roy accompanied her on the second Haiti trip. Other travels included trips to Colorado and California.
Roy retired from the farm, and they moved to Emporia where Lois continued to do private duty in homes. She and Roy decided to move into an apartment at the Holiday Estates. Roy died on November 5, 2002 at the Holiday Resort Care Center in Emporia.
Lois accepted the Lord at an early age, and was baptized in the Walton Mennonite Church in 1947. She is currently a member of Grace United Methodist Church in Emporia.
She is survived by one Sister Ella E. Wiebe of Hillsboro, Kansas, and a brother Harold Voth and wife Margaret of Fresno, California. She is preceded in death by her parents; husband Roy; and two brothers, David and Daniel Voth.
The memorial service will be 10:30 Monday, December 6, 2010 Grace United Methodist Church. The service will be conducted by Pastor Earl Detwiler of the Grace United Methodist Church in Emporia. The private inurnment will be in the Pleasant Ridge Cemetery outside of Olpe, Kansas. Memorial contributions to Grace United Methodist Church may be sent in care of the funeral home. To order memorial trees or send flowers to the family in memory of Lois Magdalene Schlender, please visit our flower store.
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