Updated Obituary - Kathryn Smith

Kathryn Smith

Kathryn Smith, age 82, Blue Mound, Kansas passed away Sunday, December 25, 2016 at Mercy Health Center, Fort Scott. She was born on January 19, 1934 at Fort Scott, Kansas the daughter of Andrew Asel and Carrie Knisely Newman. 

She graduated from La Cygne High School. She then attended Pittsburg State Teachers College, receiving a Bachelor''s in Elementary Educations. She then taught at Elsmore, Kansas for one year. She married Melvin Smith on May 25, 1956 at Jingo, Kansas. 

She became a homemaker and farm wife until returning to teaching in Pleasanton, Kansas for seventeen years, retiring in 1994. She was a member of the Blue Mound Federated Church, Lady Lions, Lend a Hand Club, Lucky Ridgers 4H leader, charter member of the Busy Workers 4H club and was the first Linn County Fair Queen. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, Melvin, and sister Rozella Lewis. Kathryn is survived by two sons, Melvin Richard Smith and Michael Smith and wife Kara, daughters Malinda Conley and husband Stephen, Marilyn Duggins, and Myrna Golden and husband Greg, nine grandchildren: Stephanie, Katelyn and Pamella Conley, Meghan Duggins, Christopher Duggins and wife Kimberly, Angela McKenna, Alysha Wilson, Kodie Smith and Sara Golden, and four great grandchildren: Kiya Smith, Kieran Houlihan, Kolin Houlihan, and Jax Wilson.

Funeral service will be held at 11 am Friday, December 30, 2016 at the Blue Mound Federated Church. Burial in the Sunny Slope Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 6 to 8 pm Thursday at the Schneider Funeral Home and Crematory Mound City Chapel. Contributions are suggested to the Blue Mound Federated Church. On line condolences for the family can be left at www.schneiderfunerals.com. Arrangements: