Kathryn Maxine Deer, 88, of Fort Scott died Sunday, Oct., 24, 2010, at Guest Home Estates in Fort Scott.
She was born Dec. 10, 1921, in Bronson, to Arthur Glenn and Martha Ester Reynolds Jackson. She graduated from Mildred High School.
On Oct. 13, 1937, she married William Percy Deer in Fort Scott. He died in 1982.
She enjoyed gardening and was a member of Fairview Methodist Church in Bronson.
Survivors include three sons, Dale and his wife, Linda, Prescott, Carroll and his wife, Jackie, Fort Scott, and Kirk and his wife Debbie, Mapleton; four daughters, Betty Adams, Fort Scott, Elaine Gibbons, Chanute, Kathy Combs and her husband Al “Leon”, Girard, and Joyce Hall and her husband, Brian, Fort Scott; three brothers, Glenn Jackson, Ellenwood, Cecil Jackson, Ketchum, Okla., and Jim Jackson, Chanute; two sisters, Virginia Henderson, Kincaid, and Dorothy Dice, Garnett; and numerous grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.
A sister, Lorene Mann, a grandson, Steve Hall, three great-grandsons, Heath Cannon, Butch Hall and Rowdy Shapel, and three great-great-grandchildren died earlier.
The Rev. Wayne Mason will conduct funeral services at 2 p.m. Thursday at Cheney Witt Bronson Chapel. Burial will follow in Bronson Cemetery.
Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Cheney Witt Chapel in Fort Scott.
Memorials to Harry Hynes Memorial Hospice may be left at the funeral home, 201 S. Main, P.O. Box 347, Fort Scott, KS 66701. Words of remembrance may be submitted online at cheneywitt.com.
Kathryn Deer
