Frances Lorine Minter

Frances Lorine Minter, age 97, of rural Paola, Kansas passed away at North Point Skilled Nursing in Paola on April 9, 2021. Visitation will be from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m., Tuesday, April 13, 2021 followed by the funeral service at 11 a.m. at the funeral home. Burial will be in Mt. Moriah Cemetery, Kansas City, Missouri at 2:00 p.m., Tuesday, April 13, 2021. Frances was born to C.H. (Charlie) and Ida Minden Peckman on November 15, 1923. She was baptized at Trinity Lutheran Church on November 25, 1923, attended Trinity Lutheran School and was confirmed on April 10, 1938. She graduated from Paola High School in 1942. She attended Huff Business College for a short time. She worked as a secretary at Safeway Finance Company and the U. S. Engineers in Kansas City, Kansas, Kansas City, Missouri and at Wright-Patterson Field, Dayton, Ohio during the war. After the war ended, she returned to Kansas City and worked as a secretary to an attorney at Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Company and later as Executive Secretary to Hugh Zimmer, President, A. W. Zimmer and Company. After returning to Paola to live, she worked for Myra Trickett in the Miami County Treasurer's Office and as a secretary at Carter Realty. She retired in 1986. On April 6, 1947, she answered a misdialed telephone call from George Minter. He liked her voice so he redialed all the numbers until he reached her again. A courtship developed and they were married on November 5, 1949 at Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Kansas City, Kansas. This marriage lasted 52 years until George passed away in 2002. They lived in Kansas City, Missouri until September 1970 when they moved into a ranch home they had built on an acre of the farm where she grew up. She typed the Sunday church bulletin and also taught Sunday School for a total of over 25 years at Our Savior Lutheran Church, Kansas City, Kansas, Concordia Lutheran Church, Dayton, Ohio and Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, Kansas City, Missouri. She decorated birthday, wedding, and anniversary cakes for family and friends. She was very proud of the fact that her mother and dad's 60th wedding anniversary cake was published in the international cake publication "The Mailbox News." She made a lot of her own clothes and her husband's sport shirts. She made her wedding gown out of parachute fabric from a parachute her brother Harold brought home from Japan where he was stationed during the war. She also made her veil, maid of honor and bridesmaid gowns. She was also a caregiver. She helped take care of her sister-in-law Eudora Holdren before she passed away of breast cancer. She helped her aunt Marie Wendte with house cleaning, did her laundry, and took her hot meals for a while before she passed away. She went to the nursing home weekly for thirteen years to wash and set her mother-in-law Bess's hair and to pick up her laundry until she passed away at the age of 95. She and her husband took care of her mother in their home for nine months until she passed away at the age of 93. She also enjoyed cooking, baking, feeding and watching the birds, making an embroidering baptismal napkins for the church, making Battenberg doilies and visiting with family and friends. She is preceded in death by her parents, her husband, a infant sister Verna, brothers Harold Peckman and his wife Ann and Don Peckman and his wife Pat. She is survived by her youngest brother Dennis Peckman and his wife Norma along with many nieces and nephews and their families.