Margaret Lavine (Cochran) Van Arsdale |
| Posted 2009-06-26 by Judy Wight Branson |
| Margaret Lavine (Cochran) Van Arsdale Born in Washington, D.C. on April 28, 1918. Departed on Oct. 10, 2002 and resided in Sedona, Arizona. Margaret Lavine Cochran Van Arsdale died Thursday, October 10, 2002 following a short illness at 84 years of age. She was born in Washington, D.C., but she never knew her father, Harry Kenyon Cochran because he died in one of the final battles of World War I. She was raised in Kansas City by her mother, Bertha Capitola Woodside Cochran, graduating from high school and starting college there. She transferred to Colorado College (in Colorado Springs) from which she graduated and at which she met her future husband, William O. Van Arsdale,II. After marriage in Kansas City on October 26, 1940, she and her husband moved to St. Paul, Minnesota where they started a family. Shortly thereafter they moved to his hometown, Wichita, Kansas, where the rest of their children were born and raised. After the five children left home to attend college and start families of their own, she and her husband provided foster care for four teenaged boys. She was active in organizations, including the Wichita Junior League, Gamma Phi Beta and Wichita Symphony Association, the Seltzer Springs United Methodist Church. After completing her masters degree in library science she worked for several years as librarian at Chaplain Kapaun High School in Wichita. Following William's retirement, they moved to the Village of Oak Creek, Arizona where they were active in the Sedona Camera Club, plus volunteer activities, including Meals on Wheels, and summered in Crestone, Colorado, where they also volunteered at the local library. She had a lifelong interest in the arts, dogs, travel and gardening, and the stock market. Following the death of her husband in March 1999, she went to live with her son, Robert L. and his wife, Joyce, briefly on Onaga, Kansas, before all three returned to Arizona. She is survived by her children, John H., wife Mary Bernadi, Kansas City, Mo. Charles R., Decatur, Ill., William O. II, wife Minerva, Laramie, Wy., Robert, wife Joyce, of the Village of Oak Creek, Ariz., Lise Ann C., husband Rodney A. Hansen, Wichita, Ks., twelve grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. A memorial service will be held Wednesday, October 16 at the Sedona United Methodist Church, 100 Indian Cliffs Rd., Sedona at 7 p.m. Westcott Funeral Home assited the family with these arrangements. Westcott Funeral Home, Cottonwood and Camp Verde, Arizona. |
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