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Neva Irene (Stites) Shoemaker was born Aug. 19, 1928, on a farm northwest of Ionia, Kan. She died Oct. 13, 2022. Her parents were George Oscar and Helen Allene (Clark) Stites. She grew up on the farm where she was born and attended the first two years of grade school at the Livers Country School. Neva finished grade school and high school in Ionia, graduating from Ionia Rural High School in 1946.

Neva married Harold Elwood Shoemaker on Aug. 25, 1946, at the Methodist Parsonage in Beloit, Kan. The first six years of their marriage was spent living on a farm north of Glen Elder, Kan., near...