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Fern Francis (Ruhsert) McDaniel was born on January 11, 1927, in Harper, Kansas, to Amanda (Stanfford) and Otto Ruhsert. She passed away at Share Medical Center on January 13, 2022, at the age of 95 years and 2 days.
Graveside services will be Thursday, January 20, 2022, at 11 a.m. at the Harper, Kansas, Municipal Cemetery, with Pastor Marion Hadsell from the Hopeton Wesleyan Church officiating and Wharton Funeral Chapel in charge of arrangements. Online condolences may be made at http://www.whartonfuneralchapel.com.
Fern graduated from Harper High School with the class of 1946, and went to work for Boeing Aviation in the assembly line shortly thereafter. The same year she was united in marriage to a Mr. Coon and later in 1953 married Clyde R. McDaniel who adopted Carol I. Ruhsert, at the age of 6, the daughter of Mr. Coon, now Carol I. McDaniel. Clyde had two boys, Mike McDaniel, age 5, and Dennis McDaniel, age 7. So began the life of a blended family, and then in 1954 came little brother Steven P. McDaniel.
They moved to Ponca City, Oklahoma, in 1967, to follow Clyde's career. Fern worked multiple clerking jobs in Harper, Kansas, and Ponca City, eventually finding a good fit at Titus Industries making heating and cooling air vents. She worked at Titus in excess of twenty years (20), and retired from in 1992 at the age of 65.
Her life was filled with the care of grandchildren and eventually great-grandchildren from that time until her health started failing and she moved in with her youngest son, Steven, in Ponca City, in 2017, and then her daughter, Carol, in Alva, Oklahoma, in 2018.
All through her life she loved to play cards (pitch and Farkel) and did some square dancing, making her own costumes. While in Alva, she enjoyed playing cards (hand and foot) with a special group of ladies.
Fern was preceded in death by her parents, Amanda and Otto Ruhsert; her brother Roy Ruhsert and sister Lucille Tracy; her husband Clyde R. McDaniel; and her stepsons Mike and Dennis McDaniel.
Fern is survived by two children, Carol I. McDaniel (Alva), and Steven P. McDaniel (Ponca City); two granddaughters, Shannon McDaniel (Alva) and Stephanie Greenwell and husband Jake (Ponca City); five great-grandchildren, Bailey Buxston (Marland), Riley Byington, and Thunder Steven Patrick McDaniel (Alva); Kinzie McDaniel and Camdon Simmons (Ponca City); one great-great granddaughter, Sophia Buxston (Marland); five nieces, Darlene Drouhard (Harper, Kansas), Rosie Ball and Vickie Jones (Wichita, Kansas), Marilyn Tracy (Las Vegas, Nevada), and Jackie Tracy (Wichita); and one nephew, Ron Tracy (Harper).
Memorial Contributions may be made in Fern's honor to a Love Fund set up though Wharton Funeral Chapel.
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