Rose Anne Harmon

Rose Anne Harmon, 87, Frankfort, died Friday, December 4, 2009, at the Frankfort Community Care Home. A funeral service was held at 11:00 a.m., Tuesday, December 8, at the First Presbyterian Church, Frankfort. The Rev. Marilyn Wullschleger officiated. Skip McMillen played the organ while Sally McMillen sang “One Day at a Time” and “Just a Closer Walk With Thee”. The congregation sang “Joy to the World.” Burial was in the Frankfort City Cemetery. Pallbearers were David and Tim Wanklyn, Mike and Dan Studer, Lyle Ladner and David Dwerlkotte. Rose Harmon was born July 31, 1922, at rural Frankfort, the daughter of George and Rosa Seematter Scholz. She attended rural school and later graduated from Frankfort High School. She taught school in Seneca and Eureka in the 1940s after earning her bachelor’s degree in home economics from Kansas State University in 1945. She married Lloyd Harmon on July 20, 1949, at the First Presbyterian Church, Frankfort. Shortly after her marriage, she and her husband moved to Frankfort to help her father with the farm. She helped raise chickens and did field work. She and her husband adopted a girl, Jeanine. She was a member of Kappa Delta sorority at KSU; First Presbyterian Church, Frankfort, where she taught Sunday school; United Presbyterian Women, through which she helped with the old-fashioned soup supper and bazaar; the Eastern Star; Snipe Creek Happy Hour; was a 4-H leader; Happy Hookers; and was a 50-year member of the Social Improvement EHU. She enjoyed rug hooking, traveling across the United States for ship service reunions and being active in her church and community. Survivors include her daughter, Jeanine Heston, Frankfort; her sister, Evelyn Potter, Winfield; four grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, in 1995, and her parents. A memorial fund has been established to Meadowlark Hospice. Contributions may be sent in care of Padden Funeral Chapel. To order memorial trees or send flowers to the family in memory of Rose Anne Harmon, please visit our flower store.