Monday, January 18, 2016



Joyce Marie (Ives) Keeten of Glade, Kansas, passed away at 1:47AM at the Logan Manor in Logan, Kansas, on January 11th, 2016, at the age of 75. She was born in Stockton, Kansas, on February 21st, 1940, to Harold Ashley Ives and Hilma Grace (Fisher) Ives. She was the 7th of 8 children. She worked for the phone company in Hays, Kansas, for several years before and after marrying Donald Dean Keeten on February 23rd, 1964. They were brought together in holy matrimony at the Christian Church in Stockton, Kansas. They were a little over a month shy of celebrating 52 years of marriage.
She worked for the Phillipsburg Long Term Care Facility in Phillipsburg, Kansas, for 33 years as a nurses’ aid. Her dedication to helping those in need extended beyond her occupation to include friends and family who needed someone to drive them, sometimes long distances, to see doctors. She held many hands as people wept with pain and offered reassurances when the darkness of despair threatened to overwhelm them. Her extensive community of friends and family knew they could ask her for help, and if she could give it, she would. She enjoyed quilting, a hobby she shared with her mother. She tried to give a blanket to every new baby in the family and a quilt to every new marriage. She enjoyed playing the piano and performed that service for the Glade Methodist Church, and also for weddings for many decades.
She is survived by her loving husband, Donald Dean Keeten, and two sons and their wives Jeffrey Dean Keeten and Janet Elaine (Hesler) Keeten of Dodge City, Kansas, and Gregrey Lynn Keeten and Tonya Nicole (Stites) Keeten of Glade, Kansas. She has six grandchildren: Caleb Dean, Kollette Danielle, Cadence Liliana, Kasen Lane, Kagan Riley, and Karissa Kilynn. She is survived by a brother, Max Elmer Ives of Bella Vista, Arkansas, and four sisters, Altha Elaine Yoxell of Wichita, Kansas, Norma Pauline Moore of Bridgeport, Nebraska, Ruth Nadine Fenton and her husband Raleigh of Stockton, Kansas, and Dixie Linn Rose and her husband Henry of Levelland, Texas. She is also survived by her sister-in-law Norma Jean (Hartford) Ives of Kansas City, Kansas. There are also two of her nieces who were raised by Harold and Hilma Ives, Marcie Blasko and her husband Ron and Sandy Hubbard and her husband Jovie. Marcie and Sandy were much closer to her than nieces. She considered them to be her sisters.
She is preceded in death by her daughter, Deana Marie, who is now in the arms of her loving mother for the rest of eternity. She is also preceded in death by two brothers, Ashley J. Ives and Harold Dean Ives, and two sister-in-laws, Earlyne (Buss) Ives and LeVonne (Pauley) Ives, and one brother-in-law, Edward Everette Yoxell.
The funeral service will be held at Oliff-Boeve Memorial Chapel at 1115 2nd Street, Phillipsburg, Kansas, on Friday, January 15th, at 10:30AM. The family will be at the Oliff-Boeve Memorial Chapel on Thursday, January 14th, for visitation from 6-7PM for anyone who wishes to come by and celebrate the life of a woman who influenced the lives of every person she knew. She chose to be cremated, so there will be no viewing. She wanted everyone to remember her as she was when she was healthy and alive.
We would like to thank all of the nurses, doctors, and caregivers who provided her with loving assistance in her final months. We want to especially thank the staff of Logan Manor Community Health and the staff of Hospice who eased her suffering and with special kindness helped her final months to be one of contentment and comfort. She was a much beloved wife, mother, grandmother, and friend. We can find solace in the fact that we know she has arrived at a better place. She is now and forever shall be in the arms of her beloved lord and savior Jesus Christ.
In lieu of flowers the family would like people to donate to the Logan Manor Community Health or Phillips County Home Care or Hospice.

--Jeffrey D. Keeten

Mary L. Zwink

Mary L. Zwink, 95, a resident of Elmhaven East nursing home in Parsons, died there at 4:40 p.m. Monday, Jan. 11, 2016. She was born Aug. 31, 1920, at Iola to William R. and Harriett F. (Mooberry) Lewis. She grew up in Iola and graduated from Iola High School in 1940. During World War II she worked as a machinist in Kansas City and then was employed by Montgomery Ward.  
She attended Manhattan Bible College for a year and on Sept. 7, 1950, married the Rev. Darold Lee Zwink at Manhattan. Together they served churches in Kansas, Oklahoma and Arkansas. They retired to Longton and later she moved to Mound Valley. Rev. Zwink preceded her in death in 1998.
Mrs. Zwink was a member of First Christian Church in Parsons and in past years held various regional and state offices in Baptist churches. She had served on the senior citizens board in Longton.
Surviving is a son, Lee Zwink and his wife, Cathy, and their children Samuel, Christopher and Ashley, of Centennial, Colorado, and a daughter, Jewell Reed and her husband, Michael, of Parsons. She is also survived by a great-niece, Lydia McElroy and her husband, Tim, of Parsons.
Two sisters, Anna May McKee and Ethel Lewis, preceded her in death.
The service will be at 2:30 p.m. Friday at the graveside at Longton Cemetery. Friends may call at their convenience at Carson-Wall Funeral Home in Parsons.
Memorials are suggested to the Longton Senior Center and may be left at or sent to the funeral home at Box 942, Parsons, KS 67357.
Online messages may be left at www.wallfuneralservices.com.

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