Wilma A. Kimbley

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Wilma A. Kimbley, age 86, died in Colorado Springs on June 28, 2008. Wilma was born near Redfield, Kansas on August 26, 1921. She attended the early grades in school at Arcadia, Kansas until at age 9 her family moved back to the Redfield neighborhood and she attended District 48 grade school and the Redfield Methodist and Mt. Orum church. It was there in Redfield that Wilma met her true love and soul mate, Frederick N. Kimbley. Wilma and Fred were childhood friends, high school sweethearts and husband and wife for 64 years. Wilma went to Fort Scott high school, graduating in 1939 and Fort Scott Junior College where she graduated in 1941 with a State Teachers Certificate. She went on to teach at Pleasant Valley District 9.

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