Blanche Deering, Caney
The graveside service to celebrate the life of former Chase County resident Blanche Lucetty Deering of Caney will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Prairie Grove Cemetery in rural Cottonwood Falls. The Rev. Melody Kimbrel will conduct the service. The coffin will remain closed.
Memorial contributions to the Bazaar United Methodist Church may be sent in care of the Brown-Bennett-Alexander Funeral Home, 201 Cherry, Cottonwood Falls, KS 66845.
Mrs. Deering died Monday, March 12, 2007, at the Jane Phillips Medical Center in Bartlesville, Okla. She was 94.
Mrs. Deering, a homemaker, also was a seamstress in the 1960s. In the 1970s, she restored old trunks in her shop in Cottonwood Falls. She and her husband, Martin, moved from Cottonwood Falls to Emporia in 1987 and to Caney to the Guest Home Estates Assisted Living Center in 1999.
The daughter of John and Nellie Denham Holcomb, she was born Aug. 1, 1912, at the family home near Pattonsburg, Mo. She moved with her family to Chase County in 1926. She married Martin T. Deering on March 1, 1931, at Cottonwood Falls. He died April 9, 2005.
Mrs. Deering was a member of the Bazaar Methodist Church, where she was a pianist for several years. She also was a member of the Ladies Aid and the Kensington Coffee Club.
She is survived by two sons, Darryl Deering of Independence and Lanny Deering of Caney; and six grandchildren. A brother, Roy Holcomb; and a sister, Myrtle “Pat” Kaliss, died earlier.