Alice C. [Young] Duncan 1918-2005

YOUNG, DUNCAN, HARDINGER, BROOKS

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Date: 5/15/2010 at 07:02:16

Death Notice:

(The Leon Journal-Reporter Leon, Iowa December 21, 2005)

DUNCAN, Alice., 87, of Manhattan, Kansas died December 15, 2005 in the Stoneybrook Retirement Community of Manhattan. Funeral services were December 21 at the Irvin-Parkview Funeral Home, Manhattan, with the Rev. Ben Duerfeldt officiating. Burial will be in the Sunrise Cemetery.

Obituary -

(The Leon Journal-Reporter Leon, Iowa December 21, 2005)

ALICE C. DUNCAN ... Alice C. Duncan, 87, Manhattan, KS, passed away Thursday, December 15, 2005, in the Stoneybrook Retirement Community, Manhattan.

She was born May 14, 1918, in Decatur County, IA, the daughter of Fred L. Young and Cora A. Hardinger Young. At the age of 18 months, Alice moved with her parents to a farm in Norton county, KS, where she lived with her family in a sod house. She attended the local schools and after high school graduation taught in a one room school house near Clayton, KS, for two years. In 1939, while attending a teacher's conference at Lenora, KS, she met her life long partner Dale L. Duncan. They were united in marriage on November 4, 1939 at St. Francis, KS. They lived for a short time in Oberlin and Eskridge, KS, before moving to Manhattan in 1943.

Mrs. Duncan was a homemaker and had worked several years at the the Riley county Clerk's Office. She was a member of the First Christian Church; Worthy Patron of Manhattan Chapter No. 209, O.E.S.; Past president of Riley County Women's Club; Past vice chairman of the Riley County Republican Central Committee, past precinct committee woman, and past president of the Women's Republican Club; Kansas State Historical Society, Pearce-Keller American Legion Post No. 17 Auxillary; and the Polly Ogden Chapter of the DAR. She devoted many volunteer hours of research to the Riley County Genealogical Society, which included several publications on her own family's history. Her main love was gardening and was especially proud of her day lily collection. She was a charter member and past president of the College Hill Garden Club and was a founding member of the Manhattan Hemerocallis Society.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Dale, on August 25, 1999; her parents; a sister, Pauline Brooks; and a brother Ralph Young.

Alice is survived by her four boys, Patrick L. Duncan, and his wife, Janet, Michael S. Duncan and Timothy D. Duncan, and his wife, Linda, all of Manhattan and Terry E. Duncan, and his wife, Sue, of Springfield, OR; 11 grandchildren; and 5 great grandchildren.