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 Joy Alice (Berry Patterson) Yeager Deaths and Services 07-22-2010 Last Updated: July 22, 2010 MARGARET PHIPPS Margaret Joyce (Diller) Phipps was born to Sarah and Elmer Diller in Peck, Kansas on Jan. 23, 1926. Margaret had two sisters and one brother and lived in the Peck-Mulvane-Belle Plaine area most of her life. She married Billy Ray Phipps on July 15, 1943 and shared that union of 53 years with Bill until his death on Nov. 5, 1996. To this marriage were born Richard Allen, Bob, Tom, Cathy, and Vicky. Margaret loved her family, crocheting, quilting, and her vegetable garden. She so enjoyed the late wintertime when the seed catalogs would arrive, which meant the coming of spring and her ability to be outside working the land she dearly loved. She loved her customers and the open-air market where she sold the vegetables. Winter was hard on Margaret, much more so than the hot Kansas sun during the summer. Winter signaled confinement, but quilting kept her busy. Each of her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren snuggle in quilts made by Grandma Margaret. They feel the love sewn in every block. Margaret was preceded in death by her parents, husband Bill, sons Richard, Allen, and Bob, and sister Mary Mae. She leaves to her legacy 10 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren. A memorial has been established with the Senior Citizen Center of Mulvane, 632 East Mulvane Street, Mulvane, Kan., 67110.Visitation Wednesday, July 21 from 1-8 p.m. at Smith Mortuary, 1415 North Rock Road, Derby. Funeral services are set for 2 p.m. Thursday at First Baptist Church, 612 North Linden, Belle Plaine. JOY YEAGER Joy Alice (Berry Patterson) Yeager, 64, retired C.N.A., died Tuesday, July 20, 2010. She was born April 21, 1946 to E.C. (Clabe) and Nova A. Berry in Morrilton, Ark. the youngest of six children with her sister Maxine preceded her in death as a toddler. Brothers Eugene, DAvid and O.J. also preceded her in death. Her brother Jerry Wayne Berry, who was her closest friend and protector, survives. Her brother Jerry Wayne introduced her to another Jerry Wayne when Joy was 16 and she married Jerry Wayne Patterson on Nov. 21, 1962 and they had six children. LaDetta, Jeff and John died in infancy. The family enjoyed many adventures, traveling between Wichita and California and everywhere between before settling in Haysville in 1975. Jerry died on May 12, 1977 from non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. She enjoyed many adventures with her three daughters and many friends for many years. She met a single father Ronald “Tubby" Yeager with three children and she married him March 16, 1989. They were married 21 years. She worked many jobs in her lifetime, including bartending, painting, operating a drill press at Cessna Aircraft in Wichita and much more. She cared for others and brought home many strays, human and animal alike, which led to her favorite career as a certified nurse's assistant. She worked for 25 years as a C.N.A., caring for hundreds of elderly patients, many of whom had no families of thier own. She called her patients “mom" and “dad" and treated them as if they truly were her family. Joy retired from the Alzheimer's Unit at Clearwater Restirement Community. Joy contracted C.O.P.D. and slowly was able to do less and less until she succumbed to the disease on July 20, 2010. In her life, those she cherished the most were family, especially her grandchildren. She is survived by her beloved husband Ronald “Tubby" Yeager, brother Jerry Wayne Berry, niece sister Dorendia Bird, her children LaDonna and Jim Collins, LaDena and Dave Campbell, LaRina Scheerger, Jay and Betty Jo Yeager, Julie and Ken Gooch, Jimmy and Chelby and Yeager; grandchildren Jimmy and Shawn, DeWayne, Kendra and Cory, Tabitha and Patrick, Tami and Russ, Courtney, Jordan, Tasha, Carlee, Adrianna, Jennifer, Bryce, Benjamin, Brett, Bowen, Chris, Jake, Zachary, Kennedy and her great-grandchildren Quentin, Coby, Kylie, Carson, Miles and Jaxon. A memorial has been established at Joy's request with Harry Hynes Memorial Hospice. Viewing will open from 1 to 8 p.m. today with the family present from 6 to 8 p.m. at Senter-Smith Mortuary in Derby. Services will be held at Senter-Smith at 10 a.m. tomorrow, July 23, 2010 with interment at the Belle Plaine Cemetery. |
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