Grace Elmore

Grace Emily Elmore, 80, died Sunday, December 12, 2010, at Windsor Place in Iola, Kansas. Grace was born July 14, 1930, in Big Bow, Kansas, the daughter of Christian Henry and Mamie Lula Pearl (Kibbe) Schweikhard. She lost her mother early in life when Lula died of dust pneumonia. She was placed in foster care at the age of 7, where she endured several difficult years apart from her siblings. At 13, she was accepted as a member of the Clemons family on a chicken farm in Erie. Grace married Carl Elmore at 18. She worked at Miller Dress Factory and Kansas Aluminum when she wasn't gardening. She canned much of her produce to feed her children and loved animals, reading, bowling and woodworking. She was soft-spoken and caring and taught her children to treat others as they wished to be treated. She is survived by a sister, Lucy Blair, Delta, Colo.; four daughters, Peggy Luken and her husband, Kenny, Gas, Vicky Taber and her husband, Paul, Reading, Nancy Jones, Newton, and Judy Quinlain and her husband, Rick, Cincinnati, Ohio; two sons, Timmy, Osage, and Carey and his wife, Christine, El Dorado. She was grandmother to 21, great-grandmother to 23 and great-great-grandmother to three. She will meet two children in heaven, Danny Dean and Betty Jean, three grandchildren, and six sisters and brothers, Ella, Pauline, Esther, Lawrence, Albert and William. VISITATION: 5:00-7:00 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010, at the Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Chapel in Iola. FUNERAL SERVICE: 1:00 p.m., Friday, Dec. 17, 2010, at the First Christian Church in Iola. Pastor Dave McGullion will officiate. BURIAL: Iola Cemetery, Iola, KS MEMORIAL: Windsor Place Fundraiser (WPFR) for resident's activities. Memorial gifts may be left with the Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Memorial Chapel of Iola, which is in charge of arrangements. Online condolences for the family may be left on this website, www.iolafuneral.com .