Harper, Joan E (Miller)

Harper, Joan E (Miller)                     wife of Delbert Curtis ‘Barney’

Burial Date: 2012,  02/21                  Age: 90            Lot: 593 B

 

Joan E. Miller was born on September 1, 1921, in Sterling, Kansas. She married Delbert C Harper on February 14, 1940. They had two children during their marriage. She died on February 16, 2012, in Hutchinson, Kansas, at the age of 90, and was buried in Sterling, Kansas.

Birth: Sep. 1, 1921
Sterling
Rice County
Kansas, USA
Death: Feb. 16, 2012
Hutchinson
Reno County
Kansas, USA

STERLING – Joan E. Harper, 90, died Feb. 16, 2012, at Dillon Living Center, Hutchinson. She was born Sept. 1, 1921, in Sterling, to Floyd and Marjorie Walton Miller. She graduated from Sterling High School in 1939. A lifetime resident of Sterling, having lived in Hutchinson since 2008, she was a homemaker and farm wife.
She belonged to the United Methodist Church, United Methodist Women, Sunday School Teacher, Modern Pricilla Club, Mutual Benefits Club, all of Sterling, and the Ark Valley Sam’s Camping Club.

On Feb. 14, 1940, she married Delbert C. “Barney” Harper in Sterling. He survives. Other survivors include: daughter, Cynthia Chiles, Lakewood, Colo., and Celia Edward, Okatie, S.C.; four grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; a great-great-grandson; niece, Julie Neufeld, Newton; and a nephew, Fred Gilmore, Sterling.

She was preceded in death by her parents, a sister, Maxine Gilmore, and an infant granddaughter, Heather Ann Chiles.

Funeral will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 2`1, 2012, at the United Methodist Church, Sterling, with the Rev. Marvin Ewertt presiding. Visitation will be from 2 to 7 p.m. Monday at Birzer Funeral Home, Sterling, with the family present from 5 to 7 p.m. Burial will be in Sterling Community Cemetery, Sterling. Memorials may be sent to the Sterling Library, United Methodist Church, or Rice Reno County Hospice, all in care of the funeral home.

Family links:
Spouse:
Debert C Harper (____ – 2012)*

*Calculated relationship

Burial:
Sterling Cemetery
Sterling
Rice County
Kansas, USA
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Record added: Feb 18, 2012
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