Individual Details
Elsie Clara Rakestraw
(19 Aug 1898 - 25 Jan 1989)
Events
| Birth | 19 Aug 1898 | Frankfort, Marshall County, Kansas | |||
| Marriage | 30 Nov 1916 | Frankfort, Marshall County, Kansas - Morse Feldhausen | |||
| Census (family) | 30 Apr 1940 | Center, Marshall County, Kansas - Morse Feldhausen |  |  | |
| Death | 25 Jan 1989 | Frankfort, Marshall County, Kansas | |||
| Burial | Frankfort Cemetery, Marshall County, Kansas | | |
Families
| Spouse | Morse Feldhausen (1895 - 1972) |
| Child | Arthur Morse Feldhausen (1918 - 1918) |
| Child | Edward Thomas "Shorty" Feldhausen (1919 - 1978) |
| Child | Doris Feldhausen (1922 - 2010) |
| Child | Fern Rosella Feldhausen (1924 - 1987) |
| Child | Marion Luzerne "Spider" Feldhausen (1927 - 2000) |
| Child | Jack Nelson Feldhausen (1929 - 2001) |
| Child | Marjorie Marcine Feldhausen (1931 - 2010) |
| Child | Art Morse Feldhausen (1934 - 2003) |
| Child | Verla Mae Feldhausen (1939 - 2019) |
Notes
Census (family)
Morse Feldhausen Head M 44 KansasElsie Feldhausen Wife F 41 Kansas
Doris Feldhausen Daughter F 18 Kansas
Fern Feldhausen Daughter F 15 Kansas
Marion Feldhausen Son M 12 Kansas
Jackie Feldhausen Son M 11 Kansas
Margorie Feldhausen Daughter F 9 Kansas
Art Feldhausen Son M 5 Kansas
Verla Mae Feldhausen Daughter F 1 Kansas
Burial
Married November 30, 1916 to Morse Feldhausen at Frankfort, Kansas.(Thanks to Lawrence H. Grunert for the additional info and link to her husband!)
Frankfort, Kansas, Index
Thursday, February 2, 1989
Mrs. Elsie C. Feldhausen of Frankfort,
Kansas passed away Wednesday, January
25, 1989 at the Frankfort Community
Care Home in Frankfort, Kansas. She
was ninety years old.
She was born August 19, 1898 northwest
of Frankfort, the daughter of Cloyd and
Bertha (Thomas) Rakestraw. She attended
elementary and high schools in Frankfort
and lived in the Frankfort community all
her life.
Elsie was married to Morse Feldhausen
on November 30, 1916 at her parents home
northwest of Frankfort.
She owned and operated a nursing home
in Frankfort from 1954 to 1976.
She was preceded in death by her husband
Morse, a son Edward Feldhausen and a
Daughter, Fern Lane.
Survivors include three daughters, Doris
Teagarden, Summerville, South Carolina;
Marjorie McAdams, Liberty, Missouri and
Verla Wilson, Waterloo, Iowa; three sons,
Marion Feldhausen, Wichita, Kansas; Jack
Feldhausen, Marysville, Kansas and Art
Feldhausen, Wamego, Kansas; eighteen
grandchildren and twenty-three great
grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at 1:00 p.m.
Saturday, January 28, 1989 at Padden
Chapel in Frankfort, Kansas. Reverend
John Burgreen officiated. Dana
Feldhausen sang "How Great Thou Art"
Accompanied by Shirley Polson.
Pallbearers where her grandsons.
Burial was in the Frankfort Cemetery,
Frankfort, Kansas.
(Thanks goes to Mike Kokoruda for the obit!)
Parents:
Cloyd Rakestraw (1871 - 1921)
Bertha Belle Thomas Rakestraw (1876 - 1965)
Spouse: Morse Feldhausen (1895 - 1972)*
Children:
Arthur Feldhausen (____ - 1918)*
Edward T. Feldhausen (1919 - 1978)*
Doris Feldhausen Teagarden (1922 - 2010)*
Fern Rosella Feldhausen Lane (1924 - 1987)*
Jack N Feldhausen (1929 - 2001)*
Marjorie M. Feldhausen McAdams (1931 - 2010)*
Art M Feldhausen (1934 - 2003)*
Endnotes
1. "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VRK2-X95 : accessed 6 November 2016), Verla Mae Feldhausen in household of Morse Feldhausen, Center Township, Marshall, Kansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 59-7, sheet 5A, family 90, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 1245..
2. Find A Grave Memorial# 57612393.