Charles Duncan McPhail, Strong City
Charles “Chuck” Duncan McPhail of Strong City died Friday, July 27, 2007, at Via Christi-St. Francis in Wichita. He was 80.
Mr. McPhail was an aerospace engineer with the North American Rockwell Company before he retired in 1987. He served in the U.S. Army in Korea and Europe.
The son of Ross and Ethel O’Clair Jones, he was born Sept. 12, 1926, at Saffordville. He married Norma Lee Wiebrecht on Nov. 6, 1995, in the Chase County Courthouse at Cottonwood Falls. She survives.
Mr. McPhail was a member of the Strong City United Methodist Church. He was active in the community, having served as a Silver-Haired Legislator and site assessor with the Area Agency on Aging. He was a member of the Chase County All-Veterans Committee and the American Legion in Strong City.
He is also survived by one daughter, Glenna Stewart of Strong City; three brothers, Ross McPhail of Republic, Mo., Howard McPhail of Ames, Iowa and Robert McPhail of Norfolk, Va.,; and five stepgrandchildren. A son, Charles Ellsworth McPhail; a stepson, Bryan McLinden; two brothers, Milton McPhail and Harry McPhail; a sister, Phoebe Shindeldecker; and a granddaughter, Jessica Stewart, died earlier.
The service to celebrate his life will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Brown-Bennett-Alexander Funeral Home. The Rev. John Hastings of the Strong City United Methodist Church will conduct the service. Burial, with services conducted by a Fort Riley honor guard and bagpiper Read Elwell, will be at Prairie Grove Cemetery in rural Cottonwood Falls. Friends may call at the funeral home from noon until 8 p.m. Sunday, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday and 9 a.m. Tuesday until service time.
Memorial contributions to the Chase County All-Veterans Memorial or the Strong City United Methodist Church may be sent in care of the funeral home, 201 Cherry, Cottonwood Falls, KS 66845.
Messages to the family may be left at www.brown-bennett-alexander.com.