Obituary
Hays Daily News - Jan. 17, 2006 - Marie Ella Duke, 93, Russell, died Sunday, Jan. 15, 2006, at Lindsborg. She was born March 16, 1912, at Vivian, La., to Thomas Jefferson and Ruby Ella (Owens) Latham. She was a homemaker. Her family lived in the Shreveport, LA, area before moving to Kansas in 1945. They settled in Russell in 1954. She was married first to Unknown Powell; later to Unknown Duke.
Survivors include two sons, James Earl Powell, Hardtner; and Dan Powell, Russell; three daughters, Mary Nell Fisher, Albany, Ore., Betty Marie Swicegood, Santa Rosa Beach, Fla., and Vera Joyce Denney, Salina; a sister Allie Mae Chiles, Bossier City, La.; 14 grandchildren; and numerous great, great-great- and great-great-great-grandchildren.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Pohlman-Heise Mortuary, 610 N. Maple, Russell, KS 67665; burial in Russell City Cemetery. Memorials are suggested to St. Jude's Hospital and can be sent in care of the mortuary.