Margaret Lyberger

Margaret Cameron (Ingmire) Lyberger, age 94, of Lawrence, died on October 26, 2013. She was born a twin to Merle Ernest “Kit” and Zona V. (Cameron) Ingmire June 7, 1919, on a farm one-quarter mile east of Dearing, Kansas. She attended the Dearing school through the tenth grade and graduated from Field Kindley High School in Coffeyville in 1937. She attended Coffeyville Junior College one year, then began work as a secretary at Orvil W. Carter’s Automotive Supply in 1938. She went to work at Strasburger’s Men’s Wear in Coffeyville as the bookkeeper in 1942.
She married James M. Lyberger May 21, 1943 at the Methodist Parsonage in Coffeyville and in 1944 joined her husband while he was stationed with the Navy Seabees at Port Hueneme, California. While in California, Margaret worked for the Federal Public Housing Authority at Oxnard. After her husband’s discharge in December, 1945, they returned to Coffeyville where James worked at the Co-op Refinery until he died in 1967. After her husband’s death, she began work in 1969 as a secretary at Southeast Kansas Area Vo-Tech School and retired from there in 1984. She moved to Lawrence in 1996 to be close to family.
She is survived by two sons, Ronald of Brookline, Massachusetts, Len of Palos Verdes Estates, California; two daughters, Shirley Lyberger and Carol Acheson of Lawrence; one grandson and five granddaughters. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, a sister and two brothers.
Services will be at 2 p.m. on Saturday, November 2, 2013, at Ford-Wulf-Bruns Funeral Chapel in Coffeyville. Family will receive friends prior to the service. Memorial contributions may be made in her name to the First United Methodist Church, Coffeyville, the Dearing Christian Church, Dearing, or the Visiting Nurses Association in Lawrence in care of the Funeral Chapel.
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