Helen Eugene Kraus

? Services for Helen Eugene Kraus, 86, De Soto, will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at De Soto Baptist Church. Burial will be in De Soto Cemetery.

Mrs. Kraus died Saturday, Sept. 11, 2004, at Olathe Medical Center.

She was born Oct. 5, 1917, in Linwood, the daughter of Lee Clarence and Mina Belle Dent Brannock. She grew up in Linwood but also lived in Shawnee and Buchanan, Texas.

Mrs. Kraus worked as the city clerk of De Soto for 25 years before retiring in 1976. She previously had worked at the Hercules Powder Plant as a secretary.

She was a member of the De Soto Baptist Church. She also was a past worthy matron of the Order of the Eastern Star in De Soto.

She married Lloyd M. “Butch” Kraus on Jan. 3, 1937, in Richmond, Mo. He died on July 8, 2004.

A great-grandson also died earlier.

Survivors include two sons, Larry L. Kraus, Shawnee, and Phillip R. Kraus, Overland Park; a brother, Ronald Brannock, Perry; a sister, Dorothy Lynn, Topeka; five grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.

The family will receive friends from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday at the church.

The family suggests memorial contributions to the church building fund, sent in care of Bruce Funeral Home, P.O. Box 192, Gardner 66030.