Margaret R. Kohler
The funeral for Mrs. Margaret R. Kohler, widow of the late Isaac M. (Ike) Kohler, was held at 2 p.m. Saturday, March 26, 1966, in the First Christian Church, Harrisonville, her pastor, the Rev. W. R. Tucker, officiating. Songs were by Mrs. W. R. Tucker and Mrs. Robert Farr, their accompanist being Mrs. Bryan Fitzgerald. Casketbearers were Guy Kohler, John H. Kohler, Jr., Neil Kohler, Dan Kohler, David Wolfe, and William Kohler. Burial was in the Orient Cemetery, northeast of Harrisonville.
Mrs. Kohler died in Memorial Hospital, Harrisonville, Thursday morning, March 24, 1966, at age 86 years and 11 months. The former Margaret Hathaway, her parents were Zachary T. and Margaret Hathaway, her birth occuring April 3, 1879, near Montevallo, Mo., she being the eleventh of 12 children. She attended and graduated from the Montevallo schools and after graduation she went to Kansas City to live with a married sister. There she met her future husband, Lyndon H. Richie, an engineer for the Santa Fe Railroad. They were married June 17, 1903 and established their home in Argentine, Kans.
Mr. and Mrs. Richie were parents of two children, Margaret Louise, born June 5, 1911, lived two years, and Lyndon Clark, born June 5, 1911, now lives with his family in Gravois Mills, Mo.
The Richie family moved to a small farm in the Mt. Zion community near Harrisonville in 1913, after Mr. Ritchie retired from his railroad service because of ill health. Following his death in 1914, his wife and son went to Sedalia, Mo., making their home with his aged parents.
On May 28, 1916, Mrs. Ritchie and Isaac M. (Ike) Kohler were married in the Methodist parsonage in East Lynne, Mo., the Rev. Thomas Martin officiating. Mr. and Mrs. Kohler lived in his home, four miles east of Harrisonville, until March of 1918, when they purchased a farm 5 1/2 miles south of Harrisonville, where they lived until his death, Jan. 2, 1964. Mrs. Kohler continued living in this home until she was hospitalized Jan. 30, 1966.
Mrs. Kohler transferred her membership from the Congregational Church in Argentine, Kans., to the First Christian Church in Harrisonville in 1915, where she and her husband were active members as long as their health permitted. She also was a member of the local Order of the Eastern Star for many years, and of several social clubs.
Surviving Mrs. Kohler are her son Lydon Clark Ritchie, and his wife Mrs. Jewell Ritchie, of Gravois Mills, MO.; a daughter, Mrs. Phil (Velma) Kohler (Kelley), Harrisonville; four grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren; a sister Mrs. Neville (Neavill) Hubbard, Nevada, Mo., severa nieces and nephews, and many friends.
