Jean (DeWeese) Cordts |
| Posted 2008-08-04 by Judy Wight Branson |
| Daily Courier, Prescott, Arizona Thursday, April 15, 2004 Jean DeWeese Cordts, age 88, of Prescott, died peacefully on Friday April 9, 2004, at Samaritan Village in Prescott, Ariz. She was born on Oct. 18, 1915, in Wamego, Kan., the second daughter and third child of Eunice Weybrew and John Terry DeWeese III. Jean graduated from St. Luke's Hospital School of Nursing in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1937. She practiced at Letterman Hospital in Washington, D.C., and was one of the first airline stewardesses, flying for Northwest Orient, when all stewardesses had to be registered nurses and unmarried! Her flight career ended when she married Earrcharles Cordts, also of Wamego, in 1939. Earl was an inspector for the U.S. Postal Service. As part of his duties, the couple traveled together throughout the United States. During WWII Earl served as a Majorin the U.S. Army Postal Service, in both Europe and the Pacific, while Jean, who was fond of stylish hats, worked as a nurse on the home front. They moved to Scottsdale, upon Earl's retirement in 1959, where Jean worked as a school nurse at Hopi Grade School in Scottsdale for many years. She loved the desert and enjoyed volunteering as a docent for the Desert Botanical Garden, in Phoenix, and participating in many hikes throughout Arizona. Her avocations were quilting and genealogy research for the Weybrew, DeWeese, Cordts and Bur- dett families. Jean is survived by her sisters, Emily Hooper of Osage City, Kan, and Margaret Stolarik of Spanaway, Wash.; her daughter, Kris Aaron - Benedum of Cambridge, Wis., who she appointed the unofficial family genealogist; her grandsons, Ron Horton of Gilbert, Ariz., and Tom Benedum of Houston, Mirin.; her granddaughter-in-law, Elizabeth Lombard Benedum of Houston, Minn., and her great-grandchildren, Shar Stacher, Tawny Horton and Chance Horton, all of Apache Junction, Ariz., and Marley Behedum of Houston, Minn. She was preceded in death by her husband, Earl, in 1990; her brothers, David DeWeese and Jac^ DeWeese, both of Wamego, Kan., and her older sister, Mary Ann DeWeese of Los Angeles, Calif. Services will he at 2 p.m. Tuesday, April 20, at St. Luke's Episcopal Church, 2000 Shepherds Lane, Prescott. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Planned Parenthood. Her daughter requests that those with additional genealogy information on any of the above mentioned families e-mail kaaron@smallbytes.net. Hampton Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Information provided by survivors. |
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