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Alice DeAnn Corbin
© Alva Review-Courier
05-21-2014
Submitted by: Glenn

© Alva Review-Courier

© Glenn

Alice DeAnn and Chester Vern CORBIN

Alva Cemetery


Memorial services for Alice DeAnn Corbin will be held Saturday, May 24, 2014, at 2 p.m. at Alva Municipal Cemetery, Wharton Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements. Online condolences may be made at whartonfuneralchapel.com.

Alice DeAnn Corbin, a woman of faith, was born Jan. 2, 1925, in Mountain View, Okla., and passed to eternal life on April 17, 2014.

DeAnn was the daughter of Oscar Roy Hollis and Edna Pulaski Reynolds Hollis. The family moved to Alva in 1925.

In 1944, she was married to Chester Corbin and moved from Alva to Liberal, Kan., in 1954 and from Liberal to Wichita, Kan., in 1964.

DeAnn graduated from Wichita State University with a BA in religion and an MA in gerontology. She was an accredited legal secretary, an associate for an international trade company, a Menninger Bible Study instructor for over 20 years and at one point was director of the East Wichita Shepherd’s Center.

Her lifelong passion was writing poetry, religious leadership and her weekend hobby for many years was helping at the couple's cattle farm in Chautauqua County, Kan., with Chet.

DeAnn was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Riverside Christian Church in Wichita. She was preceded in death by her husband, Chester; her mother and father; her sisters, Ealon Willey, Gwendolyn Anderson and Daphne Hollis Myers; her granddaughter, Laura Ellen Corbin; and grandson, Caleb Pomeroy.

She is survived by her daughter. Susan; husband, Dan; and her sons, Hollis and wife Helen, Andrew and wife Robin, and Matthew. She is also survived by her brother, Oscar LeRoy Hollis; four grandsons; three granddaughters; and 12 great-grandchildren.

DeAnn was a loving daughter, wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. She was a caring, patient, smiling woman, a thoughtful neighbor, a dedicated and unfaltering Christian example for each and every family member and friend.

The family wishes in lieu of flowers memorial donations be made to Riverside Christian Church in Wichita.

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