Phyllis Card Rahe
(March 7, 1919 - October 1, 2012)
Phyllis Card Rahe who passed away on October 1, 2012, was born in Wichita, Kansas to Nell Madeline and Arthur Barnett Card. She is preceded in death by her parents and a sister, Barbara Card Dunn of Holly, Colorado.
She grew up in Gate, Oklahoma where she graduated from high school in 1936. Phyllis attended the Music Institute at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri returning to Alva where she graduated from Northwestern University. She taught English at Crescent High School.
She married Max N. Rahe on June 6, 1941. Max was soon called to service in WWII and while he was in training to be an Air Force B-17 pilot she followed him to his many bases and found work at each base. While he was flying in the 8th Air Force in England she returned to Alva and worked in the German Prisoner of War Camp. Upon his return from Europe they lived and farmed in the Crescent area.
Phyllis substituted many years in the schools, was organist at the First Christian Church in Crescent and First Christian Church in Guthrie, where she served in that post for twenty years and often came back to play for extra occasions.
As Max became active in his 398th Bombers Group Reunions, Phyllis accompanied him and became the organist for the group.
The Crescent Annual Fireman’s Ham and Bean Fundraiser Dinner was a great place for her to have a good time with the crowd and a chance to play her “Toe Tappin’ Music.”
Survivors include her husband, Max; one daughter, Linda Lundquist of Edmond; two grandchildren, Jennifer Lundquist Pollard and husband Jason of Olathe, Kansas and Christopher Lundquist and wife Melinda of Littleton, Colorado; for great grandchildren, Davin, Talen, and Hudson Pollard and Vivian Lundquist; one sister, Janet Broaddus Keene and husband W. Richard Keene of Kansas City, Missouri. Also many nephews and nieces who will always remember her loving welcome to heir home and many happy memories there, including helping with wheat harvest, playing baseball with the Crescent boys, sitting in the yard at night and sharing her love of Astronomy, one of her numerous interest. "Aunt Phyl" was special to them all. She will be sorely missed by all of her family and many, many, friends.
Funeral services will be 2:00 P.M. Saturday, October 6, 2012 at the First Christian Church in Guthrie with Dr. Dennis Clark officiating. Burial will follow in the Crescent Cemetery. Services are under the direction of Abernathy Aaron Funeral Home in Crescent.
The family will receive friends at the funeral home Friday October 5th from 2:00 P.M. - 4:00 P.M.
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