February 6, 2025

Linn County News

Published February 12, 2025

Mary Alice Beth, age 90, Blue Mound, Kan., passed away Monday, Feb. 3, 2025. She was born on June 25, 1934, in Blue Mound, the daughter of Theodore and Jessie Rosier Russell. She graduated from Blue Mound High School.

Immediately following high school, she found employment at a restaurant in Kincaid, Kan. She always mentioned a customer that ordered a hamburger on bread, when she brought it out on a bun, she discovered the difference between bread and a bun. Later in life she worked in several grocery stores; Pruitt’s Grocery in Mapleton, Wilse’s Grocery and Townsley’s IGA in Blue Mound; and on a dairy farm as well. In her spare time, she liked to do embroidery work.

Mary was united in marriage to Carl Beth, Dec. 23, 1959, in Miami, Okla. They established their home three miles east and three miles south of Blue Mound, Kan., on an 80-acre farm where she helped with day-to-day farming operations as well as taking care of a large garden, canning and storing of the vegetables grown. She always talked about riding on the back of the pull type combine while they were harvesting grain and jumping off to run down and catch a fleeing rabbit. 

She was preceded in death by her husband, Carl, on April 27, 1982; parents; three brothers, James, Carl, and Dean Russell; and a sister, Ruby Clay. 

Mary is survived by her son, Russell Beth and wife Brenda; two grandchildren, Lynda Yocham and husband, Jeff, and their daughter, Olivia, and Carl Beth and wife, Ashley, and their children, Marvin and Blair Beth, and Kaleb and Jakob Klaus; sister-in-law Erna Russell of Boise, Idaho; and several nieces and nephews.

Funeral service will be 11 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025, at the Schneider Funeral Home, Mound City Chapel. Burial in Pleasant View Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 6 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 12, at the Mound City Chapel. Memorial contributions are suggested to Moran Manor Activity Fund. Online condolences can be left at www.schneiderfunerals.com.