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MABEL HESTELLA KALKA OBITUARY
Submitted by: Vernon Leake




MABEL HESTELLA KALKA
1881 - 2015


Services for Mrs. Mabel Hestella Rowley Kalka, 78, who died Thursday, will be held at 3:30 p.m. Saturday in the Curry Funeral Home, Chandler, with burial there.
Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. Joe Clarkson, Mrs. Steve Ingram, Mrs. Bill Leake and Mrs. Glen Temple; two sons, Joe and Irvin Kalka, all of Chandler; twenty one grandchildren and 31 great grandchildren.


Final rites were conducted Saturday at 3:30 p.m. for Mrs. Mabel Kalka, 78, Lincoln County pioneer, in the Curry Funeral chapel. Rev. L. D. Roland, pastor of the Nazarene church, officiated, assisted by Rev. Kenneth Kern of Ft. Smith, Arkansas, grandson-in-law of Mrs. Kalka.
Burial was in New Zion Cemetery.
Mrs. Kalka died March 17 at Chandler following a long illness.


Mabel Hestella Rowley, daughter of Samuel and Christina Rowley, was born November 28, 1881 near Concordia, Kansas.
As a child of eight years, she came with her parents to the new county of Oklahoma Territory, settling in Guthrie in 1889. Two years later at the opening of the Sac and Fox territory, which Lincoln county is a part, they came to Chandler. The father staked a claim south of Chandler, where the family resided a number of years. At that time, Mabel and her only sister, the late Pearl Shafer, attended school in the Morning Star district.
On July 17, 1897 she was united in marriage to Albert O. Kalka and with him established a home near Chandler. Their farm east of Chandler has been the family home for a number of years. To their union were born seven children, one dying in infancy. Mr. Kalka preceded her in death in 1943.
The children, Joe and Irvin Kalka, Mrs. Minnie Leake, Mrs. Ruth Clarkson, Mrs. Viola Ingram and Mrs. Opal Temple, attended Davenport and Chandler schools, and after their marriages, established their homes near their parents where they have found prominent places for themselves in the community.
Mrs. Kalka was a member of the Davenport Baptist Church and of the New Zion Progressive club. She took part in the activities of these organizations until her illness forced retirement.
Besides her six children, other surviving are twenty one grandchildren and 33 great grandchildren.
Published March 17, 1960.


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