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- Arkansas City Daily Traveler
January 19, 1970
Mrs. Mary A. Harsha, 82, 1426 N Third St., a resident here since 1925, died Friday in Colorado Springs.
Mrs. Harsha had been visiting there with her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Bob May, 1501 N Seventh St., who also own a home in Chipita Park, Colo.
She was born Feb. 11, 1887 at the Kaw Agency, Indian Territory, to Robert and Amanda Delano Puckett. Her father ran the Indian Trading Store and he and his family, the postmaster, doctor and teachers at the Indian Mission were the only non-Indians in the area.
After Kaw City located across the river, the town was named Washunga to honor the last chief of the Kaws. Her father made the Cherokee Strip run in 1893 and she was reared on a farm near Kaw City.
She started teaching country schools at the age of 17 and after additional schooling she went to Reno County, Kan., where she taught school for two years.
She was married to William L. Harsha Dec. 1, 1910, at her parents home in Kaw City.
They spent nine years at Partridge, Kan., in the general merchandise business. In 1952 the couple moved to Arkansas City where he bought a grocery store and operated it until 1953 when he retired. He died in May 1963.
She is survived by her daughter, Mrs. Bob (Wilma) May, 1501 N Seventh St., two sisters, Mrs. Gertrude Jenkins, 906 N Summit St., Miss Cora Puckett, Hornell, N.Y., and one brother, J.T. Puckett, Cincinnati.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband and two brothers, Howard, who died in 1969 and Robert who died in 1945.
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