Visitation for Ina Mae Ransom of Iola, whose death on Monday was reported in Tuesday’s Register, will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday at the Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Memorial Chapel in Iola.
Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Wesley United Methodist Church in Iola. The Rev. Trudy Kenyon Anderson will officiate. Burial will be in Highland Cemetery in Iola.
Ina Mae was born Aug. 28, 1926, in Colony, to Clarence Otto and Verda Delores (Nickels) Belvoir. She grew up in the Colony area.
On Aug. 27, 1944, she married James Harlen Atkins Jr. in Yates Center. They made their home in Iola. He preceded her in death on April 7, 1946.
She married Carl Ransom and they made their home in Oregon and Washington before he preceded her in death.
She moved back to Kansas in 1979 to take care of her mother until she died in 1984. For many years after that she took care of her friends and family and took them to doctor appointments and hospital stays.
She and Gerald Luther Boyer were married in 1984. They made their home in Colony. He died in 1999.
Ina Mae was a member of Take Off Pounds Sensibly and the American Legion Auxiliary. She enjoyed working puzzles.
She is survived by two grandchildren, Cindy (Atkins) Newland and her husband, Mark, and their children, Dannette and Dylan, Iola, and James Harlen Atkins IV, Oklahoma; two brothers, Maynard Belvoir and his wife, Illa, Colony, and Robert (Bob) Belvoir, Payette, Idaho; and several nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by a son, James Harlen Atkins III, in 2002, a brother, Howard Belvoir, and sisters, Pauline Heinrich and Madge Chrisman.
Memorials to Wesley United Methodist Church may be left at the funeral home. Online condolences for the family may be left at www.iolafuneral.com.
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