Celebrate the holiday season in downtown Iola Obituary

A2 Saturday, November 20, 2010
The Iola Register
Obituary
M. Lois Frodsham
Former Iola resident M.
Lois (Clark) Frodsham, 94,
formerly of McPherson
and Johnson City, died
Wednesday,
Nov.
17,
2010,
at
Mitchell
County Hospital in Beloit.
She lived
in McPherson
from
1951 to 2004, M. Lois
before mov- Frodsham
ing to Johnson City. In October 2010,
she moved to Hilltop Lodge
Nursing Home in Beloit.
She was born Sept. 28,
1916, to Artie S. and Myrtle
S. Clark in Moulton, Iowa.
She graduated from Moulton High School in 1933 and
from Iola Junior College in
1936. She graduated from
McPherson College in 1962.
On June 25, 1937, she
married
Charles
W.
“Chuck” Frodsham in Iola.
He died July 23, 1971. She
married William F. Rothrock in December 1973.
She began her 21-year
teaching career in Allen
County in country schools
and later taught at the Boys
Industrial School in Topeka
and for many years at Wickersham and Lincoln Elementary schools in McPherson.
She was a lifetime member of First United Methodist Church, member of
the Order of the Eastern
Star and of P.E.O. Chapter
HI. In her retirement years
she enjoyed reading and
playing bridge. In recent
years she enjoyed listening
to Talking Books.
Survivors include a son,
Charles K. and his wife,
Janna, Beloit; a daughter,
Phyllis J. Frodsham, Kutztown, Pa.; grandson, Eric
Frodsham, Austin, Texas;
two granddaughters, Susan
Angelisanti and her husband, Dennis, Kutztown,
and
Kimberly
Brown,
Regional planning
meeting is Dec. 2
The Southeast Kansas
Regional Planning Commission (SEKRPC) will
have its semi-annual general commission meeting at
6:30 p.m. Dec. 2 in the south
dining room of Mo Gedi’s
Italian Steak House in
Chanute.
The meeting is open to
the public.
Agenda items will be
nomination of the 2011
executive officers and nor-
mal business items.
Craig VanWey, Southeast
Regional project manager
from Kansas Department of
Commerce Business Development Division, will be
the speaker.
Reservations should be
made by noon Nov. 29 by
calling the SEKRPC office
at 620-431-0080, by fax at 620431-4805 or by e-mail to
patriciasekrpc.org or lindasekrpc.org.
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Certificate Program will be held
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through Saturday, Dec. 25, 2010.
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Lawrence; a brother, Cliff
Clark, Detroit, Mich.; a sister, Eileen Kilian, Johnson
City; and three great-grandchildren.
A brother, Raymond S.
Clark, died earlier.
Funeral services will be
at 11 a.m. Monday at First
United Methodist Church
in McPherson. The Rev.
Michael Marion will officiate. Burial will be in McPherson Cemetery.
Visitation will be from 1
to 4 p.m. Sunday with the
family present from 2 to 4
p.m. at Stockham Family
Funeral Home.
Memorials to First United Methodist Church in
McPherson or Memorial
Living Center in Johnson
City may be sent in care of
Stockham Family Funeral
Home, 205 N. Chestnut,
McPherson,
KS
67460.
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Celebrate the holiday
season in downtown Iola
A Hometown Holiday
Celebration is planned on
Nov. 30 by the Iola Area
Chamber of Commerce to
usher in the Christmas
season.
Festivities will begin at 6
p.m. with Becky French
singing Christmas carols at
the bandstand. At 6:30 the
Iola square will be aglow
with Christmas lights following a lighting ceremony
at the bandstand.
A Santa Welcoming
Parade begins at 6:35. The
parade begins at the Townhouse and will turn east on
Jackson and continue
along the north side of the
square turning south on
Jefferson to drop Santa
Claus off at his house,
where he will visit with
children from 7 to 8.
Downtown businesses
will remain open until 8
o’clock.
Anyone wishing to participate in the parade may
call the chamber at 3655252. Children must be
accompanied by an adult
in the parade.
Letters to Santa may be
dropped off at his house
until Dec. 21. Letters
should include a return
address for a reply from
Santa. Last year 100 letters were received and
answered.
Santa will be in his
house from 6 to 8 p.m.
Dec. 2, 9, 16 and 23. Volunteer elves are needed to
assist Santa at his house.
Anyone interested in
helping Santa may call
the chamber.
Registration for the
Gingerbread Walk should
be made by Wednesday at
the chamber office. Gingerbread houses will be
displayed from Dec. 1 to
31 in downtown store
windows. Categories this
year include clubs and
organizations, schools,
adults and children ages
12 and under.
“We are hoping the
Hometown Holiday Celebration grows each year
making for a more festive
atmosphere. Marty Meadows was especially helpful in helping me arrange
this year’s festivities,”
said Jana Taylor, chamber director.