IN LOVING MEMORY OF
Dona Mae
Welborn
January 19, 1926 – July 28, 2018
Obituary
Dona Mae (Mellies) Welborn resident of Phillipsburg, died at the age of 92 on Saturday, July 28, 2018 in the Phillips County Retirement Center, Phillipsburg.
She was born to John Carl Mellies and Nettie Alma (Liby) Mellies in Morganville, Kansas on January 19, 1926. She attended elementary and secondary schools in Clay County. After the untimely death of her mother, her father remarried in 1939. Dona was raised by her father and step-mother Mae (Kennedy) Mellies. She graduated from Clay County Community High School in 1943. She graduated from Jane C. Stormont School of Nursing in Topeka, Kansas in 1946 as a registered nurse. On July 27, 1947 at the Holton Methodist Church in Holton, Kansas she married Lloyd Arthur Welborn from Waverly, Kansas, and together they had four children. They resided in Manhattan, Kansas until 1951 when they moved to
Leonardville, Kansas and later in the year Clyde, Kansas. She raised her four children and then returned to work in 1962 at St. Joseph Hospital in Concordia, Kansas. In 1966 she started working for Warren S. Freeborn, MD at his office in Clyde, Kansas, where she was employed for twenty four years.
Dona was an avid gardener and enjoyed crocheting. She was a member of the Clyde United Methodist Church, and was active in senior choir, sponsored youth group, and attended circles of the church. She was active in Order of the Eastern Star receiving her fifty year pin. She held positions of Worthy Matron and Grand Representative of Iowa and Germany. She was a member and held offices in Jolly Seventeen and Clyde Senior Citizens.
Dona is survived by her daughters Colleen Conrad of Phillipsburg, Kansas, Arlene Grube and husband Art of Westfield, Wisconsin, Elaine Shrader of Chesapeake Virginia, son Gary Welborn and wife Carol of Springdale, Arkansas, eleven grandchildren, twenty-one great grandchildren, and many other relatives and friends. She was preceded in death by her husband Lloyd in 1985 due to ALS, her mother, father, step-mother, three brothers, and two sisters.
A memorial service will be held in Clyde, Kansas at a later date. She will be buried beside her husband at Mount Hope Cemetery in Clyde, Kansas.
She was born to John Carl Mellies and Nettie Alma (Liby) Mellies in Morganville, Kansas on January 19, 1926. She attended elementary and secondary schools in Clay County. After the untimely death of her mother, her father remarried in 1939. Dona was raised by her father and step-mother Mae (Kennedy) Mellies. She graduated from Clay County Community High School in 1943. She graduated from Jane C. Stormont School of Nursing in Topeka, Kansas in 1946 as a registered nurse. On July 27, 1947 at the Holton Methodist Church in Holton, Kansas she married Lloyd Arthur Welborn from Waverly, Kansas, and together they had four children. They resided in Manhattan, Kansas until 1951 when they moved to
Leonardville, Kansas and later in the year Clyde, Kansas. She raised her four children and then returned to work in 1962 at St. Joseph Hospital in Concordia, Kansas. In 1966 she started working for Warren S. Freeborn, MD at his office in Clyde, Kansas, where she was employed for twenty four years.
Dona was an avid gardener and enjoyed crocheting. She was a member of the Clyde United Methodist Church, and was active in senior choir, sponsored youth group, and attended circles of the church. She was active in Order of the Eastern Star receiving her fifty year pin. She held positions of Worthy Matron and Grand Representative of Iowa and Germany. She was a member and held offices in Jolly Seventeen and Clyde Senior Citizens.
Dona is survived by her daughters Colleen Conrad of Phillipsburg, Kansas, Arlene Grube and husband Art of Westfield, Wisconsin, Elaine Shrader of Chesapeake Virginia, son Gary Welborn and wife Carol of Springdale, Arkansas, eleven grandchildren, twenty-one great grandchildren, and many other relatives and friends. She was preceded in death by her husband Lloyd in 1985 due to ALS, her mother, father, step-mother, three brothers, and two sisters.
A memorial service will be held in Clyde, Kansas at a later date. She will be buried beside her husband at Mount Hope Cemetery in Clyde, Kansas.
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