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Obituary- Timmons, Cordelia

Cordelia Belle Timmons
DELIA—Cordelia Belle Timmons, 83, Delia, died Monday, Sept. 29,2003, at Rossville Valley Manor in Rossville.

She was born Cordelia Belle Carley on Sept. 24,1920, on a farm three miles southeast of Westmoreland. She was welcomed into the world by her parents, George W. Carley and Alta Blanche Parks Carley, and four siblings.

She attended Broderick Grade School and Onaga High School.

She married Carroll Rhoten Timmons on June 6,1937, at the Pottawatomie Courthouse in Westmoreland, and then had a family dinner at her parents’ home.

She and Carroll then embarked on a life lived in the Rossville community on the Harmony Orchards, where they had apples and peach trees. Cordelia had a flock of chickens each year, which she dressed and sold to the local creamery and neighbors. After her children were out of school, she worked at Crosby Brothers in the alteration department.

When it closed she went to work for Duckwalls for two years. She was a master seamstress at Roy Frey’s Western Wear for 17 years before retiring in 1985.

Cordelia and Carroll carried The Topeka Capital for Capper Publications and Stauffer Publications for 54 years. They also carried the State Journal until 1980, when it was discontinued.

In 1974, Cordelia and Carroll left farming to live the city life in the town of Delia. Carroll died on Dec. 10,1995. Cordelia Belle also was preceded in death by three sisters, Blanche Safford, Topeka, Thelma Hopkins, Greenwood, Mo., and Marjorie Kraushaar, Westmoreland; and a brother, Harvey Carley, Parsons.

Cordelia Belle Timmons lost a son, George Shedrick Timmons, who died in infancy, and another son, Donald Eugene Timmons, who died in 1990.

She is survived by a daughter, Pauline M. Conley and a son-in- law, Joe M. Conley, Delia; a son, Robert Dale Timmons, Topeka; a sister-in-law, Betty Jane Kusler, Longmont, Colo.; a brother-in- law, Lyle Timmons, Wamego; eight grandchildren; three stepgrandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; and three stepgrandchildren.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Friday at Rossville United Methodist Church. Burial will be in Rossville Cemetery. A family gathering will be at 7 p.m. today at Piper-Verschelden Funeral Home in St. Marys.

Memorials may be made to Rossville United Methodist Church, Kansas State University Cancer Research Center or Heart of America Hospice and sent in care of the funeral home.

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