Wynona Mae Kirkpatrick, Phoenix
Hartford native Wynona Mae Kirkpatrick, a longtime resident of Emporia and Phoenix, died Saturday, July 28, 2007, at the Beatitudes Campus of Care in Phoenix. She was 89.
Mrs. Kirkpatrick was academic dean at the College of Emporia.
She was born May 29, 1918, at Hartford. She received her doctorate of education in educational administration in 1965 from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville where she was the first woman to be admitted for study in that field.
Mrs. Kirkpatrick is survived by one daughter, W. Kay Prost of Kimberling City, Ark.; two sons, James W. of Surprise, Ariz., and George D. II of Monkey Island, Okla.; one sister, Betty Lee Blevins of Missouri; nine grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild.
Her husband, George Denton; one daughter, Wanda Perry; three brothers, Charles Jeanneret, Aaron Jeanneret and Harold Jeanneret; two sisters, Fannie Norman and Rosa Lou McDowell Smith, died earlier.
Services and burial will be at a later date in Lena Valley Cemetery at Lamont.
The A.L. Moore Grimshaw Mortuary, 710 W. Bethany Home Road, Phoenix, AZ 85013, has the arrangements.