Eleanor Womer died October 15, 2008 at Villa St. Joseph Nursing Home in Leawood.
Service will be held at Old Mission Mortuary on Monday, October 20th at 10:30 a.m.
She is survived by her nephew, Lewis Gregory (Laura); and niece Charlotte (Randy) Jones; great nephew, Paul Gregory and great niece, Erin Gregory.
Eleanor was born in Agra, Kansas and was preceded in death by her parents; her sisters, Elizabeth Womer and Virginia Gregory.
She attended Kansas State University in 1928 and was a member of Pi Beta Phi Sorority. She joined PEO in 1930. She was a member of DAR and the Midwest historical and Genealogy Society. She was proud that seven ancestors fought in the Revolutionary War and her grandfather fought in the Civil War as a Union soldier.
Eleanor was a school teacher, an assistant postmaster, worked for the Kansas-Nebraska Gas Company, social Security Administration, all in Phillipsburg. She worked fifteen years as a material planner for the Boeing Airplane Company in Wichita. She cared for her parents in Phillipsburg the last years of their lives from 1971 to 1974.
She and Elizabeth lived at Georgetown Retirement Home in Wichita for twenty years prior to moving closer to her niece and nephew. The Womer sisters were members of College Hill United Methodist Church where a memorial will be established.