Joanne Rose Kelly
April 11, 2013
Kelly, Joanne R. (Magathan), 86, retired Registered Nurse, passed away peacefully in her home April 11, 2013. She was a former Regent for the Eunice Sterling Chapter DAR in Wichita. She spent her life helping others both personally, and professionally. After retiring, she was a volunteer at the VA Hospital. She was an avid gardener, quilter, and world traveler. Preceded by son, Patrick Kevin Kelly, and sister, Ramona Reiff. Survived by brother, Willis Jack Magathan (Esther) of Boulder CO.; daughter, Marilyn Browne; sons, Gregory, Brian (Rebecca), and Bradley all of Wichita; grandchildren: Justin and Aaron Browne, Rachel Dodge, Patrick Kelly, and 5 great-grandchildren. Visitation with the family will be held 6 -8 P.M., Tuesday, April 16th, and the funeral service will be 2:00 P.M., Wednesday, April 17th, both at Downing Lahey Mortuary East. Memorials have been established with Botanica, 701 N. Amidon Ave., Wichita, KS 67203; and the Kansas Humane Society, 3313 N. Hillside, Wichita, KS 67220.
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Joanne was one of my Mother’s (Emma Jean Grunewald Hackett) nursing classmates from Wesley School of nursing in Wichita Kansas- class of 1947. I just found a letter that she wrote to her years ago. My Mother just passed away May 30th 2019. The only thing she wanted me to do before she left was to get a hold of her nursing classmates that she was close to. I have so many stories she told me of her days at Wesley and the hard work they had to do to graduate to become a part of US Cadet Nurse Corps.. I am so sorry that you lost your mother, grandmother and great grandmother. I am sure she and my Mother also passed on some cherished memories of those days they grew up in and lived through. In her letter to my Mother she said she had been to two ‘fab’ weddings of her grandsons. I found out that there is a bill in congress they are trying to pass to give these cadet nurses veteran recog nition
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