Harriett Elizabeth Ki Cotton Price

Price, Harriett “Cotton” Elizabeth Kinloch Heimburger, 87, passed away Monday, July 26, 2010. A memorial service will be held 11:00 A.M. Saturday, August 7, 2010, at University Congregational Church, 9209 E. 29th St. North. Harriett is survived by her five children, Richard H. Price, Jr. (Becky), of Wichita, Robert B. Price (Vikki), of Rogers, AR, Cynthia H. Price-Glynn (Philip), of Boston, MA, James C. Price (Sandy), of Wichita, and Bruce H. Price, of Boston, MA; eleven grandchildren, Robert Sean Price, Elizabeth Erin Shore, Rebecca Hilary Price, Richard Harvey Price, III, Ashley Amber Schoon, Jennifer Eva Price-Bedwell, Ryan Hesser Price, Douglas Brian Price, Justin Campbell Price, Shannon Michelle Price, Joshua Cameron Price; eleven great-grandchildren, Sydney, Dekker, Savannah, Summer, Deacon, David, Elizabeth, Jordan, Evan, Price and Madeleine; one great-great-grandchild, Seth. Harriett is also survived by two nephews, John and Bob Kinloch, and one niece, Kate Kinloch Baldi. Harriett was preceded in death by her first husband, Douglas Corbett Heimburger (September 1, 1951) father of Cynthia and Bruce, and husband of 54 years, Richard Harvey Price (January 20, 2007). Harriett was born in Springfield, MO on December 31, 1922, the sixth child of Nell M. Watson and Arthur Earl Kinloch. She graduated from High School in Springfield, and then attended Drury College in Springfield, where she met Douglas Corbett Heimburger and later married him. She also attended the Incarnate Word School for Girls, San Antonio, TX and Whittenberg College, Ohio. She graduated from the University of Dayton, Ohio with a BA, majoring in philosophy in 1946. She did graduate work at Purdue University, in Lafayette, Indiana. Harrietts first husband, Douglas Corbett Heimburger, died while working as a test pilot for Boeing Aircraft on September 1, 1951, leaving her and their two children Cynthia and Bruce. She married Richard Harvey Price, a Lincoln-Mercury Dealer, on September 2, 1953, and became the Mother for his three sons from his previous marriage, Dick, Jr, Bob, and Jim. Along with raising a family, Harrietts passion in life was helping children. This included being a Braille writer for school books for the blind children attending the Wichita public schools during the 1960s.She also trained in “Each One Teach One” (Lauback Method) which prepared one to teach English to foreign brides of US soldier during the early1960s. Harriett was the first Woman Chairperson of the Administrative Board of East Heights United Methodist Church in Wichita, KS from 1982-1984. Harriett was a co-founder of the Mid-American All Indian Center with her husband, Dick, and was on the Board during the late 1960s. She and nurse Elinor Amstutz lived and worked at the Ganada Mission on the Navajo Reservation, AZ for six weeks during a time of emergency following a late winter storm in 1966, helping to put their language into written form. She was active in the Wichita Council of Churches Indian committee with Dick Price since 1969. She was the First Woman President of Board of Trustees of United Methodist Youthville, Newton, from October 1973 to October 1975. She received the Work Horse Award from the Wichita Indians which consisted of eleven different tribes - 1974. Harriett received the National “Trustee of the Year Award” at the Annual Convention of the National Association of Health and Welfare Ministries on March 9, 1976. She received the National Conference of Christians and Jews Brotherhood Award for the Kansas Region for her work with the Indians on March 14, 1976. Harriett wrote the book, “From Dreams to Reality” (1981) on the lives of three outstanding Wichita Indian Leaders, and the founding and development of the Mid-American All Indian Center. She also recorded in writing, for the first time in history, the Yavapai Indian Language, and wrote a “Childrens Cultural Coloring Book” (1985) for teaching it on the Fort McDowell Reservation in Arizona. She also wrote “Fort McDowell Yavapai Language and Cultural Awareness” (1985) in an attempt to save a dying language. She was a popular speaker in Arizona about the Yavapai Nation and its reservation. She worked with Earnest Alexander at Youth Horizons, a “Home for Boys Without a Home” in Wichita along with her husband Dick. In 2006 they purchased the land for the Kinloch Price Boys Ranch, at 11345 N. Woodlawn. She is listed in “Whos Who of American Women”, “Two Thousand Notable American Women” and “2000 Outstanding People of the 20th Century” (2001) and was inducted into the 500 Leaders of Influence Hall of Fame. Harriett was inducted into the Wichita State University Plaza of Heroines on March 8, 2010. Harriett was a member of PEO. The family respectfully requests no flowers. Memorial funds have been established with Mid-American All Indian Center, 650 North Seneca, Wichita, Kansas, 67203, and Youth Horizons, 1601 East Douglas, Wichita, Kansas, 67211. Downing Lahey Mortuary East.