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Submitted: 9/7/13 • Approved: 9/8/16 • Last Updated: 3/11/18 • R6101-G6099-S3
Virgil
April 29, 1916 - November 21, 2006
Leathel
March 17, 1919 - August 28, 2011
Married October 19, 1936
*Obituary for Leathel*
HOUSTON, Texas — Leathel Bohannon, 92, died August 29, 2011 in Houston, Texas.
She was born March 17, 1919 in Mountain View, Arkansas, the daughter of Hiram Mitchell and Mary Shannon Price. A resident of Great Bend since 2004, moving from Hoisington, where she had lived since 1946. Before her retirement, she was a nurse's aide at the Hoisington Hospital for 14 years. During World War II, she worked in a shipyard in Richmond, California. On October 19, 1936 she married Virgil Bohannon in Beardon, Oklahoma. He preceded her in death on November 21, 2006.
Mrs Bohannon was a member of the Church of Christ in Great Bend. She loved camping and fishing with her late husband, and loved flowers.
Survivors include two sons, Gerald Bohannon and wife Georgina, Houston, Texas; and Lloyd Bohannon, Newhall, Califprnia; two daughters, Lois Kean and husband Richard, Littleton, Colorado, and Reta Lucas and husband Kevin, Great Bend; nine grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Hiram Mitchell and Mary Shannon Price; her husband, Virgil Bohannon; three brothers, Eulis Price, Walter Price and Fred Price; an infant brother, Merlis Price; and a sister, Ethel Brittain.
Funeral services are scheduled at 1 pm on Saturday at the Church of Christ in Great Bend with Chuck Marshall officiating. Burial will be at the Hoisington Cemetery.
Contributed on 9/7/13 by kristibender
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