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Mary E. Korte,
87, of Kelly, Kansas, died Friday, June 9, 2000, at the Country
View Estate Care Home in Seneca, Kansas. She entered the care home
on April 17, 2000.
She was born September 23, 1912,
on a farm southwest of Kelly, the daughter of Frank and Elizabeth
Macke Wessel. Mary grew up there and attended St. Bede's School
at Kelly.
On May 30, 1931, she married Albert
B. Korte at St. Bede's Church at Kelly. They lived and farmed at
Corning, Kansas, for nine years before moving southeast of Kelly.
They farmed and operated a dairy until 1968 when they retired and
moved into Kelly. Her husband, Albert, died January 31, 1972. She
worked part-time at the Hulsing Grocery Store and the US Post Office
at Kelly for several years. She also substituted for the school
secretary at the Kelly school.
She was a member of St. Bede's Catholic
Church and a past president of St. Ann's Altar Society at the church
in Kelly. She also taught religion classes at the church.
Survivors are a son, Robert Korte
of Goff, Kansas; two daughters Gladys Niehaus of Lake City, MN and
Anna Kramer of Seneca; three brothers, Albert Wessel of Seneca,
Andrew Wessel and George Wessel both of Corning, Kansas; a sister,
Rita Stuke of Seneca; eighteen grandchildren, twenty-eight great-grandchildren,
and one great-great-grandchild.
The mass of Christian burial will
be 10:30 Monday at St. Bede's Church at Kelly. The burial will be
in the church cemetery. The rosary will be prayed at the Lauer Funeral
Home in Seneca on Sunday at 2 P.M. and at 7 P.M.
Memorials may be given for St. Bede's
Cemetery and sent in care of the family.
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