Butler County KS Archives Obituaries.....Bird, Ethel Ellen October 29, 1965
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The El Dorado Times, October 31, 1965
The El Dorado Times 
October 31, 1965 

Mrs. Ethel Ellen Bird, 70 Dies in Wichita, Oct. 29 

Mrs. Ethel Ellen Bird, 70, of 323 North Madison, Wichita, a former resident of 
the Potwin and Towanda communities died October 29, 1965 in the Wesley Medical 
Center at Wichita, following an illness lasting for two and one-half years.

She was born October 31, 1894 at Towanda. Her parents were E. A. and Mary Ellen 
(Dunaway) Mossman. 

In 1916, she moved to Potwin with her parents, where she taught the seventh and 
eighth grades in the Potwin school. Later she moved to Wichita where she 
attended Business College and was employed by the Red Star Mill for several 
years.

After her marriage to Wesley E. Bird in February 924, at Wichita, they returned 
to Potwin in 1930, and resided on farms near Potwin for several years, later 
moving to Towanda until 1943, when they returned to Wichita.

Mrs. Bird was a member of the East Heights Methodist Church in Wichita, the 
Church Guild, the Fellowship Sunday School class and the Ivy Leaf Chapter of 
the Eastern Star. She was active in church work and the lodge until her health 
failed her.

She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Juanita Parker, Mrs. Wilma Sheets, and 
Miss Lois Bird, all of Wichita; and two sons, Wesley of Wichita and Loren of 
the U.S. Marine Corps, stationed in Hawaii, one sister, Mrs. Ray Scrivner of 
Potwin; three brothers, Everett Mossman of Longton, Kans., Virgil of Yates 
Center, Kans., and Claude, of Salina, Kans., eight grandchildren; and two great-
grandchildren.

Funeral services were held in the Chapel of the East Heights Methodist Church 
in Wichita, Monday morning, November 1. the Rev. Milton Holcomb officiated.

Pallbearers all nephews were: Allen McAllister, Bob Dent, Norman Mossman, Frank 
Gerlach, Kenneth Larsh, and Carl Britain.

Burial was in the Old Mission Cemetery at Wichita. 



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