DEATHS

AND OBITUARIES

Gertrude Morgan

Visitation for Gertrude Ellen (Strutt) Peacock Morgan, 87, Marion, who died Jan. 14 at Parkside Homes, Hillsboro, was Saturday at Jost Funeral Home, Hillsboro.

She was born June 4, 1938, to Theodore and Sarah (Cadoret) Strutt in rural Osborne County.

She married John William “Bill” Peacock on Feb. 13, 1956, in Stockton, Kansas. He died in 1993. She married Howard Morgan on May 26, 1995, on a farm near Canton.

Before her first marriage, she left home to help support her parents by caring for children and doing household and farm chores. After her marriage, she took in ironing and cared for other people’s children while raising her own.

She worked at Webster Supermarket in Stockton for 16 years, then began working in nursing homes and hospitals in Hanover and Hoisington.

After her second marriage, she worked at nursing homes, including 10 years at Parkside and a year at Shiloh Manor in Canton.

Brothers Dean, Joe, and Francis, sister Bernice, and son Kendall preceded her in death.

Survivors include husband Howard of the home; sister Judy Butler of Enid, Oklahoma; sons Wendell Peacock of Ada and Randall Peacock of Great Bend; stepdaughters Angela Young of Tonganoxie and Pamela Carley of Olathe; seven grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.

A memorial has been established with Parkside.