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Lotta Houk Keefover-Bevitt 1926 - 2011 Berryton
Funeral services for Lotta Houk Keefover-Bevitt, 84, Berryton, will be at 3 p.m. Saturday at Stull United Methodist Church. Burial will follow in Clinton Cemetery.
Mrs. Keefover-Bevitt died Monday, June 13, 2011, at her home.
She was born Aug. 20, 1926, in Lawrence, the daughter of Albert and Linna Woodward Houk.
She was very active in her community and belonged to many local clubs, and had served as an officer for the Clinton Museum.
She married William “Bill” Keefover on May 6, 1948. He preceded her in death on March 9, 1984. She married Merlin “Skeet” Bevitt on Dec. 23, 1998, in Stull. He survives.
Other survivors include a son, Rick Keefover, Carbondale; a daughter, Lynn Collier, Berryton; a stepson, Steve Bevitt, Burlingame; a stepdaughter, Karen Hesseltine, Overbrook; two sisters, Alberta Smith, Berryton, and Ethel May Wulfkuhle, Tecumseh; two grandchildren, two great-grandchildren, five stepgrandchildren and eight stepgreat-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents.
The family will receive friends from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday at the church.
The family suggests memorials to the Douglas County Visiting Nurses, Rehabilitation and Hospice Care and/or Stull United Methodist Church, sent in care of Greenwood-Roberts Funeral Home, P.O. Box 268, Overbrook, KS 66524.
Online condolences may be sent at Lamb-Roberts.com.
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