Doris H. Matney

Graveside services for Doris H. Matney, 90, Lawrence, will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Mount Hope Cemetery.

Mrs. Matney died Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2002, at Brandon Woods Retirement Community.

She was born March 8, 1912, in Topeka, the daughter of Theron G. and Mary Alice (Fraser) Hiatt. She grew up in Douglas County and attended Pleasant Grove Elementary School. She graduated from Liberty Memorial High School in Lawrence in 1929.

Mrs. Matney worked as a bookkeeper for Poehler Mercantile in the early 1940s, for Thompson Hardware in Topeka for 10 years, and for Capper Foundation for Crippled Children until she retired in 1977. She moved to Lawrence from Tecumseh in 1990. She was a member of Tecumseh United Methodist Church and Lecompton Historical Society.

She married Clarence Russell Matney on Nov. 22, 1941, in Lawrence. He died on Aug. 24, 1964.

Survivors include a son, Russell E. Matney, Joshua, Tex., and a granddaughter.

Friends may call from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday at Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home, where the family will receive friends from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. today.