Dovie Marie (Walker) Rule

HERINGTON - Dovie Marie Rule, formerly of Herington, died Wednesday, January 4th, 2017, in Springfield, Missouri.  She was born May 9th, 1918, at Chouteau, OK.  She was the daughter of Frederick and Bessie B. (Langley) Walker.

Funeral services will be held at 1:30 pm, Monday, January 9th, 2017, at the St. Paul Lutheran Church, Herington, with Pastor Bill Peterson, officiating.  The family will receive friends Sunday evening at the funeral home from 5:30 pm until 7:00 pm.     

After her youngest daughter went to school, she went to work at the Herington Municipal Hospital as a nurse’s aide.  She was a member and a strong voice for the First Presbyterian Church of Herington.  She served as clerk of the church for nineteen years.  She is a past president of Chapter FC, PEO Sisterhood , and a past president of the Herington Hospital Auxiliary.   She is a 50 year member of White City Chapter #421 and was an active member of Esther Chapter #96, Order of the Eastern Star serving as Past Matron two years, and 19 years as the secretary.  She could be found in the kitchen cooking soups and baking pies for these local organizations fundraisers.  She was an active member of Hospice of Dickinson County in Herington.  She was a past PTA member and served as room mother many times.  She was always a devoted and supportive mother to her children.  Her five children were her pride and joy and they are all graduates of Herington High School. Due to a fall and the results of a fractured hip, in the later part of 2006 she moved to Springfield, MO, where she would have the assistance of her daughters’ families.  Her five children were very active in those later years and attentive to all of her needs.

She was married to John Hunt Rule on February 28, 1937, in Ottawa, KS.  He preceded her in death on Nov. 12, 1998; she is also preceded in death by her siblings Albert, Earl, Marvin, Harold, and Clinton Walker; Edna Clark, Leila DeLay; and her parents.

She is survived by three daughters Judy and her husband Tom Wyrick, Kim and her husband Mark Logan of Springfield, MO, Janet and her husband John Rhea of Paola, KS; two sons Fred Rule, and his wife Marlene,  Jim Rule and his wife Deannie all of Elk City, OK; two brothers Ed Walker of Edmond, OK, and Clayton Walker of Tulsa, OK; sixteen grandchildren and 19 great grandchildren.

The family requests memorials to Chapter FC, PEO Sisterhood, or the Herington Hospital Foundation; and may be sent in care of the Zeiner Funeral Home-Herington Chapel,  404 S. Broadway, Herington, KS 67449-3038.