Margaret E. Studer

Margaret E. Studer, 87, of Seneca, Kansas, formerly of Beattie, Kansas, died Thursday, November 21, 2002, at Country View Estates Care Home in Seneca.
     She was born July 16, 1915, on a farm south of Beattie, the daughter of Raymond and Agnes Douglass Easton. She graduated from Marysville High School at Marysville, Kansas, attended Kansas State University, and Emporia State Teacher's College where she earned a teaching certificate. She taught at Snipe Creek School south of Beattie for seven years.
     On June 6, 1940, she married Ralph P. Studer at St. Malachy's Church at Beattie. They lived southeast of Beattie where they farmed and raised cattle. In 1990 they celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. They moved into Beattie, and in September of 1998 they moved to Seneca to be close to their family. Her husband, Ralph, died December 14, 1998.
     She was a member of St. Malachy's Church and the Ladies Guild at the church, the Beattie Study Club, and the Beattie Better Builders Club. In Seneca, she was a member of Sts. Peter & Paul Church and St. Ann's Altar Society at the church. For many years she did volunteer work at the Marysville Community Hospital
     Survivors are a son, Mark Studer of Seneca; a brother R.D. "Red" Easton of Seneca and three grandchildren.
     Besides her husband, she was preceded in death by a sister, Verla Metzger.
The mass of Christian burial will be 10 A.M. Saturday at St. Malachy's Church at Beattie. She will lie in state at the church for an hour preceding the services. The burial will be in St. Patrick's Cemetery at Beattie. The rosary will be prayed at 7 P.M. Friday at the Lauer Funeral Home in Seneca.
     Memorials may be given for St. Malachy's Church or for St. Patrick's Cemetery and sent in care of the family.
     Lauer Funeral Home in Seneca is in charge of arrangements.