Hazel Cantrell

Kiowa-Funeral service for Hazel Cantrell will be Thursday, March 5, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. at Kiowa United Methodist Church with Rev. Keith Fink officiating. Burial will be in Rose Hill Cemetery near Hazelton. Viewing will be Wednesday 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. with family present 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Hazel Cantrell was born at Anthony, Kansas on January 2, 1922, the daughter of Roy Hibbard and Maggie Hiner Hibbard, and passed from this life on March 1, 2015 in Kiowa, Kansas. After her high school graduation she attended Wichita Business College and then was a bookkeeper for a jewelry store. She and Clifford "Pete" Cantrell were married August 12, 1944 at her sister's home near Waldron. She had lived east of the Hazelton-Corwin area since her marriage to Pete. Her first church was Ferguson Baptist. Then she was involved at Corwin Presbyterian Church and Corwin Women's group for forty years until it closed. At that time she became a member of Kiowa United Methodist Church where she was also part of the United Methodist Women. Hazel always had a one-half acre garden from which she canned much produce. She was a marvelous cook and could cook anything. She was still growing flowers when she entered Kiowa Manor. She had dogs and cats on the farm. Her greatest pride was her grandchildren.

Hazel is preceded in death by her husband, Pete Cantrell; her parents Roy and Maggie Hibbard; sisters, Helen Stark, Ruth Vawter and infant sister, Katheryn.

Those left to cherish her memory are her children, Howard Cantrell and wife, Marcia and Harold Cantrell; three grandchildren, Matt Cantrell and wife, Jenny, Darcy Cantrell and Jacee Tice and husband, Micah; eight great grandchildren, Grant, Gage, Grace and Garen Cantrell, Regan and Shklar Olsen and Henry and Boyd Tice.

Memorials may be made to Kiowa District Manor, Kiowa District Hospital or South Barber Elementary through the funeral home.