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| Marylee Keirsey Mitchell |
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Marylee Keirsey Mitchell of Butler, Missouri passed away on September 6, 2017 at 101 years old. She was born in Butler on January 14, 1916, to William Drury and Margaret Cole Keirsey and was the youngest of four children. After graduating from Butler High School in 1934, she attended Warrensburg State Teachers College for two years. Years later she graduated from the University of Hawaii in Honolulu where she lived with her husband for over twenty years. She met her husband at the Wells Music Company in Denver, where they were both employed. On October 13, 1942 she married Harold H. Mitchell in San Diego California where he was serving in the US Navy. Following World War II, they moved to Hawaii where her husband owned Thayer Piano Company in downtown Honolulu.
After her husband’s death in 1975, she returned from Hawaii to Denver where she lived with her sister Norma Keirsey for many years. Following Norma’s death, she returned to Butler to be with her brother Sam for his last years. She became active in the Central Union Congregational Church in 1956 in Honolulu where she kept her membership. She also kept her membership in the Aloha Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution in Hawaii. She was active in the Denver chapter of DAR and became active in the Harmony Mission Chapter of DAR when she returned to Butler in 1992. She was an active member of the Butler Rotary Club and a Paul Harris Fellow as well as the Shawnee Homemakers Club, now the Get Together Club, and attended the Butler Presbyterian Church.
She played cards on Tuesdays and was a long time volunteer at the Butler Senior Center. She loved to travel and visited over sixty countries. She enjoyed visiting her family and was often in Colorado and Texas as well as the famous girls trips that started in 2000 and lasted until August of this year. She lived to see the third generation below her and delighted in her great great great nieces Amia Strange and Ridlee Gentry and great great great nephew Jack Savage.
She was preceded in death by her husband Harold, her sister and her brothers, Norma, Sam and Cole Keirsey and her niece Virginia Keirsey Gentry Jones. She is survived by her nephew Cole Keirsey and wife Janet of Boulder, Colorado, great nephew Sam Gentry of Butler, great nieces Susan Gentry Gainer and husband Joee of Mansfield, Texas and Patricia Gentry of Oak Park, Illinois, great-great nephew Jack Gentry and wife Andrea of Butler, and great-great niece Jennifer Savage and husband Robert of Knoxville Tennessee.
