Miles Hargrove Stotts

Mr. Stotts died Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2002, at Mennonite Retirement Community in Hutchinson.

He was born May 20, 1900, in Terre Haute, Ind., the son of Fred Hargrove and Jessie Belle (McClellan) Stotts. He attended school in Clinton, Mo., and Marionville Academy in Marionville, Mo. He received his bachelor’s degree in abstentia from Baker University in May 1926 while he attended Boston University School of Theology. He received his Master’s of Divinity on June 9, 1928.

Mr. Stotts spent 60 years in the active ministry of the United Methodist Church. He served churches in the St. Louis area, western Missouri, Elmdale, Strong City and Moline. He moved to Baldwin after he retired. He was curator of Old Castle Museum at Baker for 17 years and assistant pastor for the Rev. Kirby Hayes at First United Methodist Church in Baldwin for three years. He moved to Hutchinson in July 1993. He was a member of East Kansas Conference of the United Methodist Church, Baldwin City Rotary Club, Palmyra Masonic Lodge of Baldwin and Scottish Rite in St. Joseph, Mo.

He married Edith Pezoldt on June 9, 1928. She died in 1952 in St. Joseph. He later married Elnora Florence Knehans. She survives of the home.

Other survivors include a daughter, Kathrina Belle Juby, Hutchinson; a son, Miles II, Aspen, Colo.; and five grandchildren.

The family suggests memorials to Baker University Old Castle Museum or Children’s Music Fund of First United Methodist Church in Hutchinson, sent in care of Johnson and Sons Funeral Home, 300 E. 30th Ave., Hutchinson 67502.