Mary Madora Orrick Decker

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Obituary- Decker, Mary 2

Decker
Mrs. Mary M. Decker, 85, Rossville, died Monday, Feb. 27, 1989, at a Rossville nursing home.
Mrs. Decker taught in Brewer School near Mayetta before she was married.
She was born May 13, 1903, at Indiahoma, Okla., the daughter of Daniel G. and Ellen Coen Orrick. She was graduated from Denison High School.
Mrs. Decker was a member of the Rossville Christian Church where she taught Sunday school classes many years.
She also was a member of the former Amaryllis Chapter No. 321 of Order of Eastern Star in Rossville more than 40 years where she had been chapter organist and held several other offices. She cur¬rently was a member of Loyal Chapter No. 176 of Order of East¬ern Star in Silver Lake. She was a graduate of the Mrs. Flo V. Menninger Bible Class.
She was married to Ernest Decker Jan. 28, 1922, in Topeka. He survives. A son, Robert Decker, died in September 1973.
Other survivors include two daughters, Winifred Stach, Rossville, and Charlotte Kling, St. Marys; two sons, Willis Decker, Kansas City, Mo., and Gerald Decker, Topeka; a half sister, Ruth Coleman, Alameda, Lam.; 14 grandchildren; and 16 great-grand¬children.
Services were at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Christian Church in Rossville. Burial was in Rossville Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to the Christian Church in Rossville.

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