Iola Love Combes, Lebo
Iola Combes, a Lyon County native and longtime Coffey County resident, died Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2007, at the Life Care Center in Burlington. She was 96.
The daughter of Ray and Alice Pearson Love, she was born Dec. 15, 1910, near Reading. She graduated from Neosho Rapids High School in 1929, and taught in a rural grade school in the early 1930s. She attended summer school to receive and maintain her teaching certificate.
She also worked for Woolworth and Gibson stores. After retirement in the early 1980s, she volunteered at the Lebo Senior Center.
She married James O. Combes on June 9, 1936 in Emporia. In 1949, they moved to a farm south of Lebo. He died Nov. 21, 1972.
Mrs. Combes is survived by two sons, Garold Combes and Gale Combes, both of Lebo, and by two brothers, Laverne Love of rural Lebo and Orville Love of Bloomington, Ill. Five grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren also survive.
She was a member of the Lebo Senior Center and the United Methodist Church in Lebo.
Funeral services will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the church. Burial will be in Lincoln Cemetery. The family will meet friends from 6:30 to 8 p.m. today at the Jones VanArsdale Funeral Home in Lebo.
Memorial contributions to the church or the senior center may be sent in care of the funeral home, P.O. Box 43, Lebo, KS 66856.