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Mrs. J. H. Sandifer Dies in Missouri

Mrs. James H. Sandifer, whose late husband was a former postmaster in El Dorado died Wednesday night at Monett, Mo. She was 91 years old.

Mrs. Sandifer was a long-time resident of El Dorado, coming here with her parents. She was a graduate of El Dorado High School. She had been making her home with a daughter in Kansas City and Wheaton, Mo.

Mr. Sandifer serviced as El Dorado's postmaster from 1933 until 1938.

Mrs. Sandifer was born May 24, 1873, at Burlington, Iowa. She was married May 24, 1893.

She was a member of the El Dorado First United Methodist Church.

Survivors include three daughters, Mrs. Helen Crummer, Reno, Nev., and Mrs. Jay Toevs, Kansas City, Mo., and Mrs. Virgil Paden, of Wheaton; two sons, James A. of Burbank, Calif., and Robert P. of Wichita; 10 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren.

Funeral services will be announced by the Kirby Funeral Home. (El Dorado, Kansas, Times ~ 19 Nov 1964)

Mrs. J. H. Sandifer

Mrs. James H. Sandifer, who died this week at Monett, Mo., at the advanced age of 91, was a lovely and gracious woman in El Dorado during all the long years that she lived here.

She and her late husband reared a gorgeous family of sons and daughters. Their spacious home on Atchison street was always a scene of gayety and high spirits-and stood wide open for the entrance of friends and neighbors. A more cordial and hospitable couple never graced the citizenship of this remarkable community. Mrs. Sandifer was always in the midst of the happy excitement that reigned about the place, always smiling her welcome and always expressive of the love and affection that ruled her gentle spirit.

She lived a long skein of years in this town which she well knew and cherished and some time after her husband had died, went to live with various of her children. Her parting with the ties which bound her to El Dorado was reluctantly and painfully made because of this town sheltered by the Hills she had experienced her greatest joys and sorrows. But she never really was absent from this community and her friends here; her soul was always a part of it until the end came for her.

And now she sleeps after long, busy and happy days on earth. The trees on Country Club Hill, which her husband was instrumental in planting in the long ago, will bow in sorrow over her passing, yet the musical breezes which constantly stir their foliage and branches will combine to sing a magnificent requiem to her memory. (El Dorado, Kansas, Times ~ 21 Nov 1964)