Elk County KS Archives Obituaries.....Wucherpfenig, Lillie May September 24, 1957
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Howard Courant-Citizen,   October 3, 1957
OBITUARY--WUCHERPFENIG

Lillie May Wade, only daughter of George F. and Catheran Wade, was born in 
Shelbyville, Illinois, November 26, 1866.

March 1, 1957, she fell and had been confined in a wheel chair until she 
passed away at her home in Howard, Kansas, Tuesday night, September 24, 1957, 
after having developed double pneumonia Sunday night, having reached the age 
of 90 years, 9 months, and 28 days.

At the age of four years, her mother died and she was then adopted by Humphrey 
and Lizzie Saunders of Stewardson, Illinois, who changed her name to Lillian 
Woodward Saunders.  When a small girl she was converted and joined the Baptist 
church, which she attended faithfully until her church burned, when the 
congregation joined with the Methodist church.  To this faith she remained all 
her life.

On March 5, 1892, she was married to Alfred Franklin Wucherpfenig of 
Stewardson, Illinois.  Mr. Wucherpfenig passed away January 19, 1953.  To this 
union were born seven children, one son dying in infancy.

They moved to Parsons, Kansas in 1916, then later to a farm northeast of 
Howard in 1919, later moving into town in the spring of 1926.

She was a devoted wife and mother, always thinking of her family's well being 
and the affairs of her community.

She leaves to mourn her passing, a son, Ray, of Howard; five daughtgers, Leona 
Noblitt of Arcola, Illinois; Irma Newby of Parsons, Kansas; Esther Morgan, 
Howard, Kansas; Ina Speer, Winfield, Kansas; and Marjorie Simpson of the home; 
seven grandchildren; seven great grandchildren; one nephew, Raymond Deering of 
Red Bank, New Jersey, and many neighbors and friends.

Funeral services were held at the Moon Chapel, Saturday, September 28th, at 
2:00 p.m., with the Rev. J. Richard Williams of the Howard Methodist church 
officiating.  Mrs. Virginia Denton sang 'Beyond The Sunset" and "Safe In The 
Arms of Jesus" accompanied at the piano by Mrs. Noel Mullendore.  Pall bearers 
were Frank Simons, Henry Kling, Dr. Frank R. Reid, Elwood Miller, Lester Hurt 
and Holly Miller.  Interment was in Grace Lawn cemetery, Howard, Kansas under 
the direction of the Moon Funeral Home.

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