Teresa Elaine DeLong
Teresa Elaine DeLong, 924 Market St., former society editor for The Emporia Gazette, died Wednesday, June 6, 2007, at the Flint Hills Care Center. She was 96.
Mrs. DeLong was society and club editor for The Emporia Gazette for 16 years before she retired in 1976. Earlier, she taught in the Osage City grade school and did substitute teaching in the Topeka and Emporia school systems.
The daughter of Franklin Leonard and Lulu Edna Purdy Gilson, she was born May 19, 1911, in Winfield. She graduated from Emporia High School, where she was a member of the National Honor Roll. She graduated with honors from Kansas State Teachers College in Emporia with a bachelor’s degree in education in 1933.
She married John DeLong on Oct. 14, 1933, in Emporia. He died Dec. 4, 1983.
Mrs. DeLong was a longtime member of the First Congregational Church. She was named in Foremost Women in Communications; Two Thousand Women of Achievement (Melrose Press of London), Who’s Who of American Women and Dictionary of International Biography (Cambridge, England). She also was a member of the National Society of Colonial Dames of America, Quest Club, the Lyon County Historical Society, the Humane Society and Emporia Friends of the Zoo.
She is survived by two sons, Richard Gareth DeLong of Emporia and David Gilson DeLong of Philadelphia, Pa.
Three brothers, Gareth Gilson, Geoffrey Gilson and Leonard Gilson, died earlier, as did two sisters, Marjorie Williams and Miriam Porter.
The memorial service will be at 11 a.m. Monday at the First Congregational Church (in the little chapel behind the big church). The Rev. Chad Poland of the church will conduct the service. Mrs. DeLong was cremated. Burial will be in Memorial Lawn Cemetery.
Memorial contributions to the church or the Lyon County Historical Society may be sent in care of the Roberts-Blue-Barnett Funeral Home, P.O. Box 175, Emporia, KS 66801.
Teresa Elaine DeLong, 924 Market St., former society editor for The Emporia Gazette, died Wednesday, June 6, 2007, at the Flint Hills Care Center. She was 96.
Mrs. DeLong was society and club editor for The Emporia Gazette for 16 years before she retired in 1976. Earlier, she taught in the Osage City grade school and did substitute teaching in the Topeka and Emporia school systems.
The daughter of Franklin Leonard and Lulu Edna Purdy Gilson, she was born May 19, 1911, in Winfield. She graduated from Emporia High School, where she was a member of the National Honor Roll. She graduated with honors from Kansas State Teachers College in Emporia with a bachelor’s degree in education in 1933.
She married John DeLong on Oct. 14, 1933, in Emporia. He died Dec. 4, 1983.
Mrs. DeLong was a longtime member of the First Congregational Church. She was named in Foremost Women in Communications; Two Thousand Women of Achievement (Melrose Press of London), Who’s Who of American Women and Dictionary of International Biography (Cambridge, England). She also was a member of the National Society of Colonial Dames of America, Quest Club, the Lyon County Historical Society, the Humane Society and Emporia Friends of the Zoo.
She is survived by two sons, Richard Gareth DeLong of Emporia and David Gilson DeLong of Philadelphia, Pa.
Three brothers, Gareth Gilson, Geoffrey Gilson and Leonard Gilson, died earlier, as did two sisters, Marjorie Williams and Miriam Porter.
The memorial service will be at 11 a.m. Monday at the First Congregational Church (in the little chapel behind the big church). The Rev. Chad Poland of the church will conduct the service. Mrs. DeLong was cremated. Burial will be in Memorial Lawn Cemetery.
Memorial contributions to the church or the Lyon County Historical Society may be sent in care of the Roberts-Blue-Barnett Funeral Home, P.O. Box 175, Emporia, KS 66801.