Nancy Fay Mills, of Eureka, died on December 21, 2006, at Galichia Heart Hospital in Wichita, Kansas at the age of 71.
She was born on August 10, 1935, in Caplinger Mills, Missouri, the daughter of William Earl and Dorothy (Lean) Hayden. She was raised in Bear Creek, Missouri and the Yates Center, Kansas areas. After her schooling Nancy worked in a café in Durand, Kansas where she met her future husband.
On March 23, 1954, she was united in marriage to Vernie “Lee” Mills in Miami, Oklahoma. They made their home in Neal, Kansas until 1957, when the family moved to Iola. In 1966, they moved to Eureka where Nancy was a babysitter for many local children. In 1979, she began her career in health care at the Lyndon Nursing Home. When the Lyndon Nursing Home closed in the early 1980’s, she continued her career at Medicalodge of Eureka where she was the Social Services Director. She retired in July, 2004. Lee preceded her in death on July 12, 1996.
She is survived by three sons, Sam Mills of El Dorado; Bill Mills of Eureka; and Bob Mills of Garnett; two daughters, Linda Criswell of Eureka; and Kathy Earnest of El Dorado; nineteen grandchildren; fourteen great-grandchildren; and two sisters, Hettie Mitchell of Wichita; and Marie Bollingmo of Tucson, Arizona. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, two brothers, and three sisters.
Funeral services will be held at 10:00 A.M., Wednesday, December 27, 2006, at Koup Family Funeral Home with Pastor Alan Hunter of the Jefferson Street Baptist Church officiating. Interment will follow in Greenwood Cemetery.
Memorials have been established in her name to the Medicalodge Activity Fund and the Medicalodge Christmas Fund. No flowers please. Contributions may be sent in care of the funeral home at P.O. Box 595, Eureka, Kansas 67045.
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