Dolores M. Mathes

February 23, 2013

Dolores Maxine Mathes, 79, of McPherson, KS, passed away at 4:05 a.m., Saturday, February 23rd, peacefully, at McAllen Medical Center, McAllen, County, Texas. Dolores was born in Canton, Kansas on January 16, 1934, a daughter of the late Jessie Leona (Brucker) and Edward William Wallace.Dolores attended the Canton grade school and graduated from Canton High School, Canton, Kansas in 1952. She attended and graduated from the 1st class of the McPherson LPN School, McPherson, Kansas.She was a member of First Christian Church McPherson, Kansas. She was also a member of the Mission Texas Red Hat Society, and served several positions with the FMCA Heart of America and Good Sam's Motor Home Associations. Dolores was a homemaker and worked as LPN for Georges Nursing Home; as a medical charge nurse for Memorial Hospital, McPherson, The Cedars, floor nurse for Bethany Home and the Lindsborg Hospital as a LPN. Dolores Maxine Wallace was united in marriage to Jack Wayne Mathes on December 28, 1952 in the Christian Church, Canton, Kansas. Surviving family members include her loving and devoted husband of over sixty years, Jack Mathes, of McPherson, Kansas; her daughters, Debra Sheets and her husband Brent, of McPherson, Kansas and Sondra Frank, of McPherson, Kansas; her sister, Dorothy Jean Hartman and her husband Kenneth, of Brandon, Florida; her five grandchildren, Kimberly Veer and her husband Mathew, of Melville SK Canada, T.J. Dearing and his wife Lindsay, of McPherson, Kansas, Tommy Dearing and his wife Amie, of Maryville, Tennessee, David Frank and his wife Natasha, of McPherson, Kansas, and Charles 'Bub' Frank, of Hays, Kansas; her six great-grandchildren, Garrett Veer, Kendall Veer, Tristan Olive, Dakota Frank, Kaylee Frank, Trace Dearing, and one baby boy on the way.Dolores was preceded in death by her parents; her son-in-law Charlie Frank.Friends are invited to call on Thursday, February 28, 2013 from 4 to 7 p.m. with the family present from 5 to 7 p.m. at Glidden - Ediger Chapel, McPherson, Kansas. Funeral service will be held at the First Christian Church, McPherson, Kansas at 2:00 p.m., on Friday, March 1, 2013, with Pastor Lynn Scott officiating. The final resting place will be at the McPherson Cemetery McPherson, Kansas.