Marlene Maxine Stauth Vance was born September 12, 1926, on the family farm ten miles southwest of Dodge City, Kansas. Beloved wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, Marlene went to be with our Lord March 3, 2021 at the age of 94. She was preceded in death by her father, Vernon Griffith Stauth and mother, Mary Annabell Imel Stauth, her husband, Frederick Kelton Vance, her sons, Ace Frederick and Jerry Wayne and her siblings, Vernon, Blanche, Sam, George, Bill, and Dale.
She is survived by her sister-in-law, Ruth Stauth of Dodge City, her son, Mark Vance and his wife, Renee, her daughter, Judy Nesloney and her husband, Milton, grandchildren, Joy (husband, Michael), Scott (wife, Shannon), Michael, and Misty, great-grandchildren, Haley, Grayson, Kelton, Kelsey and River, and scores of nephews and nieces.
Marlene, or “Molly” as she was called when she was growing up, lived on a farm in Kansas and went to small country schools. She spent grade school in Ash Grove Elementary and junior/senior high in the Ensign public school system. Her sister, Blanche was 10 years older than her and became her teacher in high school. She finished her education at Dodge City Junior College.
At an early age she worked on the family farm gathering eggs, cleaning out the barn and hen house, bringing cows in from the pasture, working in the garden and helping with the harvest. After graduating high school, she worked as a nurse’s aide in Dodge City. She decided she wanted to be a secretary and worked as such for American Security & Trust Company (Washington, D.C.), Loma Plastics (Ft. Worth, TX) and Houston Terrace Baptist Church (San Antonio, TX). She ended her secretarial career and worked for Civil Service for 20 years, finally retiring at the age of 72, from Communications Operations at Brooks Air Force Base,
Marlene’s parents were devout Christians and the family attended weekly services at Ensign Methodist Church. She accepted our Lord Jesus Christ as her personal Savior at the age of 17. Church services were attended everywhere she lived, Kansas, Washington D.C., Maryland, Hawaii, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio, and Texas. She was an active Sunday school teacher and choir member and witnessed for Christ all her life.
She met Frederick (Fritz) Kelton Vance in Dodge City on a Saturday while he was on leave from the Navy. He asked her to have a coke with him, which she did. He told her he was on leave for the next fifty-nine days and that he was going to spend each day with her. It was a whirlwind courtship and exactly one week from that Saturday, they were married in the Ensign Methodist Church on February 24, 1946. From their union came four children, Ace Frederick, Jerry Wayne, Gary Mark, and Judy.
Marlene was a loving, caring individual who would go out of her way to make others comfortable. While working at Brooks AFB she would invite enlisted men to her home for a Thanksgiving feast, giving them a boost during a holiday they would otherwise spend alone. She would care for children from the Baptist Children’s Home by taking them in and treating them like family. She loved to cook and always made everyone happy with her fried chicken and cream gravy, to name but one of her specialties.
Marlene will ever be remembered by those who knew her, as a loving, caring, beautiful Christian woman and will be greatly missed until we are once again reunited.
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