Emma West

Obituaries

August 20, 2012 - 12:00 AM

Emma Jean West (Scully), 68, passed away suddenly on Thursday, Aug. 2, 2012 in Albuquerque, N.M.

Emma attended St. John’s Catholic School in Iola, then Mount Saint Scholastica in Atchison where she received her diploma.

She was married to Grant Gibbs Alexander from 1963 to 1977. Grant passed away in 2003.

Grant and Emma ran the Montgomery Ward catalog store on the Iola Square from the mid 1970s to the mid ’80s. Emma or “E.J.” then became a mainstay at Coast to Coast / Ace Hardware.

Emma married Dennis Gilbert West of Bronson in 1996. They moved to Caballo, N.M., in 2004 where they enjoyed time at “West’s Palm Beach” with all the wonderful wildlife and beautiful scenery. After Dennis passed away in 2009, some wondered aloud if she’d move back to Kansas, but she didn’t really consider it. She had made a true spiritual, familial home in the high desert. 

Emma was surrounded by her “family” at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church where she was a leader of the Lady’s Council. Emma also was recently made Chaplain of the American Legion Auxiliary. She also had a close-knit family of neighbors in her subdivision.

She leaves behind one brother, Joseph Scully, and his wife Judy of the family farm in Colony; one son, Mike Alexander, and his wife, Angie, Lenexa; and three stepdaughters, Linda Leake and her husband, Steve, Iola, Cherryl Olson, Chanute, and Mary Daniels and her husband, Brett, Savonburg.

Funeral services will begin with rosary at 10 a.m. Friday at St. John’s Catholic Church in Iola. Mass is at 10:30. Following Mass, lunch will be served. Interment follows at Bronson Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations to Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, 103 East Sixth St., Truth or Consequences, NM 87901-2360.


Advertisement

Advertisement

Related
August 7, 2018
October 21, 2016
December 16, 2015
May 8, 2012