Ester Bahnmaier Matney

? Services for Ester Bahnmaier Matney, 96, Wilkes County, N.C., will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at U.C. Davis & Sons Funeral Home Ltd. in Morris, Ill. Burial will be in Sample Cemetery.

Mrs. Matney died Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2004, at Wilkes Senior Village in North Wilkesboro, N.C.

She was born Dec. 26, 1907, in Lecompton, Kan., the daughter of George Jacob and Mary Elizabeth Neis Bahnmaier. She attended Star School in Lecompton. She later lived in Morris before she retired to Wilkes County.

Mrs. Matney was a homemaker and owned and operated a farm in Lecompton for 38 years. She was a member of Lecompton Historical Society and United Methodist Church in Big Springs, Kan.

She married Kenneth Lavern Matney on Feb. 27, 1937, in Topeka, Kan. He died March 26, 1989.

A son, Donald K. Matney, died Sept. 28, 2003.

Survivors include two daughters, Mary Jo Thomas, Wilkesboro, N.C., and Nadine Litton, Smyrna, Ga.; four grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.

Friends may call from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Saturday at the funeral home.

The family suggests memorials to the historical society, 609 E. Woodson, Lecompton 66050, or to a charity of the contributor’s choice.