Ines Wilma Duncan
April 29, 1917 ~ January 23, 2012
Duncan, Ines Wilma, age 94, passed away Monday, January 23rd in Jackson, Michigan surrounded by devoted and loving family. Services will be held at 11 am Saturday, January 28 at Downing Lahey Mortuary East, 6555 E. Central, Wichita Kansas. Ines was born April 29th 1917 to Eliza Thomas and James Worley. She graduated from Dwight Rural High School in 1935 and went on to finish Business College in Salina, Kansas. Ines worked as office manager and teletypist for Sears Roebuck in Wichita. In 1938, she married her beloved husband Virgil H. Duncan. The two shared a passion for boats and water. In 1945, they set out to build a fishing resort on Grand Lake in Oklahoma. The Duncan Hide-A-Way Resort and Marina came to be after a long year of grueling work and challenges. Ines and Virgil shared 17 years in a labor of love and adventure, building memories that lasted a life time. In 1962, the two sold the resort, now known as Port Duncan. They retired to Sarasota, Florida and spent their summers on Grand Lake. Ines is preceded in death by her husband, Virgil; sister, Opal (Worley) Marcin; brothers, Aaron C. Worley and Orville Lee Worley. She is survived by many nieces and nephews.
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My family and I lived on the end of Monkey Island when Ines and Virgil moved there. We shared many memories of the early days. I started working for Ines at their resort when I was thirteen for 50cents an hour many times 12 to 14 hours a day. I continued to work there during high school and jr. college and after…. Ines and Virgil have been life long friends. I live in Wichita now and when Ines moved back we connected again. I greatly admired her work ethic, her honesty and her friendship. I will miss our phone visits in her later years, reminiscing about the Monkey Island days. I took her back there when she first came back to KS but nothing was the same and it made her sad to see the changes. I would love to see her albums of pictures of the old days if it would be possible. God Bless her.