Obituary of Mary Alice Hoskins

Sedan - Mary Alice Hoskins youngest child of Eddie Clarence and Mary Augusta (Myers) Puckett passed away Wednesday, November 10, 2010, at Pleasant Valley Manor. She was born January 1, 1923 in Elgin, and moved with her family to Sedan in 1929. She attended local schools and graduated from Sedan High School in 1942. She was in band and drum corps at Sedan High school and taught drum lessons while attending there. After graduation she moved to Wichita to work. There she learned the upholstery trade and worked at Innes Dept Store doing furniture and later Johnny Boklage automotive shop where she like doing interior of autos and trucks. She met Richard Warren Null in a small diner not far from where she worked and on July 31, 1948 was married in Wichita, Kansas. To this union one daughter Freida Marie was born. They later divorced in 1953. She returned to Sedan with her daughter in1954 and went to work at the Sedan City Hospital as a Nurses Aid. She worked at this position for 15 years when health reasons was going to force her to quit when they developed the Ward Clerk position and ask her to write the program and train staff for the position. She was the pioneer of this at the hospital and to this day some of the programs she wrote are in effect. She worked another 15 years as a Ward Clerk retiring in 1984. In 1956 she met Alfred Eugene Hoskins and on May 15, 1958 they were married in Sedan, Kansas. Together they made a life in Sedan and he also worked at the Sedan Hospital. They enjoyed doing crafts together and attending several craft shows a year selling things they made. They were married 49 years when he passed away on May 17, 2007. Upon Mary's retirement she was free to do things she enjoyed best, working on family history with her daughter Freida, quilting, crocheting, reading which she dearly loved to do and crafts. As her health failed she moved to Pleasant Valley Manor and lived where she found many friends she had known all her life. She truly loved all the staff there and spoke of them often to her family. She is survived by her daughter Freida Wells and husband Leon of Grenola, Ks; step-sons Bruce Hoskins Sr. and wife LaVerne of Houston, Texas, Glenn Hoskins and wife Veronica of Baytown Texas, grandson Robert Null and wife Paula of EL Dorado, Kansas. Step-grandchildren, Patsy, Bruce Jr., Brandy, Priscilla, Marcia, Renee and Briyawana; 7 great-grandchildren and 3 great-great-grandchildren. Family and Friends may call on Friday, November 12, 2010 from 9:00 a.m. until 9:00 p.m. at the David W. Barnes Funeral Home in Sedan. Graveside services will be held Saturday, November 13, at 11:00 a.m. at Greenlawn Cemetery in Grenola, Ks. Mike Graham of Harry Hynes Memorial Hospice will officiate. In lieu of flowers the family requests that donations be made to Harry Hynes Memorial Hospice, 2404 W. 8th Coffeyville, KS 67337. Tagged as: Greenlawn Cemetery, Harry Hynes Memorial Hospice