Mary Helen Cradit Peach Obituary

April 8, 1925 - August 19, 2007

Mary Helen Cradit Peach, 82, passed away at the home of her daughter with her family at her side on Sunday, August 19. A memorial service is scheduled at the Flint Hills Community Church in Cottonwood Falls, KS on Thursday, August 23 at 10 a.m.

Mary was born April 8, 1925 in Tarkio, MO to Wilber Edward and Myrtle E. Cradit. Her family later moved to the Clovercliff Ranch in Chase County, KS where her father worked as a foreman. She spent her youth in Cottonwood Falls, KS, graduating from Chase County Community High School. After graduation, she joined the Army Nurses Corp. during World War II and received her RN from St. Francis Hospital in Wichita. Throughout her life, Mary was active in nursing at Newman Hospital and St. Mary’s Hospital, the Lyon County Health Department and Emporia State University Health Center until her retirement in 1985. In July 1947, she married Meredyth White of Emporia and had five children. Later she married Noah (Shorty) Peach of Emporia and spent her retirement years enjoying 10 grandchildren and 7 great grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her son Bruce White and husband Shorty Peach, sister Martha and brother George. Survivors include daughter Virginia King and her husband Rusty of Overland Park, KS; daughter Marlene Miltz and her husband Steve of Americus, KS; daughter Carol Giger and her husband Alan of Elmdale, KS; son Wayne White and his wife Deborah of Prairie Village, KS; a sister-in-law Mildred Park of Overland Park; niece Margaret Stout of Overland Park; sister Emma Jean Larsen of Springfield, Ohio.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Flint Hills Community Church, Cottonwood Falls, KS 66845 or to Odyssey Hospice, Holmes Corporate Centre II, 800 East 101 Terrace, Suite 150, Kansas City, MO 64131-5308.

Posted August 20, 2007

Compliments of Flint Hills Community Church, Cottonwood Falls, KS.