Merlene Isabelle (Simmons) Layton (1926 - 2007)

Born 30 Apr 1926 in Kansas, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Billy Mervin Layton — married 4 Sep 1943 in Humbolt, Allen, Kansas, United States

Died 2 Aug 2007 at age 81 in Chanute, Neosho, Kansas, United States

Biography

Merlene was born in 1926. She is the daughter of Merle Simmons and Leona Ford. She passed away in 2007.

Obituary^[1]

Merlene I. Layton, 81, Chanute, died Thursday, August 2, 2007, at the Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center.

She was born April 30, 1926, in Salina to Merle C. and Leona Ford Simmons. She attended Chanute High School.

She married to Billy Layton on Sept. 4, 1943, in Humboldt. He preceded her in death on Nov. 29, 1994.

She was a homemaker.

Survivors include a son and daughter-in-law, Robert and Verna Layton, Chanute; a granddaughter and her husband, Brenda and David Burt, Chanute; a grandson, Gary Wiles, Chanute; three great-grandchildren, Josh and Austin Burt and Cristy Thomas; two great-great-grandchildren; and a sister, Deloris Bauer, Milwaukee, Wis.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, two brothers and two sisters.

Funeral will be 10:30 a.m. Monday at the Penwell-Gabel Johnson Chapel in Chanute. Burial will follow at Mt. Hope Cemetery in Humboldt under the direction of Penwell-Gabel Johnson Chapel.

The family will receive friends from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home.

Memorials may be made to the V.F.W. Auxiliary or the Red Cross Blood Mobile in care of the funeral home.

Sources

1. ↑ Chanute Tribune, The (KS) - Friday, August 3, 2007

• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X7Q5-4P5 : accessed 17 May 2017), Merlene Simmons in household of Merle Simmons, Chanute, Neosho, Kansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 7, sheet 8A, line 28, family 211, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 713; FHL microfilm 2,340,448.
• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VRKT-HWQ : accessed 17 May 2017), Merline Simmons in household of Merlo Simmons, Ward 3, Chanute, Chanute City, Neosho, Kansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 67-9A, sheet 25B, line 53, family 630, 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 1249.
• "United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VMHH-DZ4 : 20 May 2014), Merlene I Layton, 02 Aug 2007; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
• Find A Grave: Memorial #20773795