Phyllis June McNeely, 84, passed away Wednesday, October 26, 2016, at the Comanche County Hospital in Coldwater, Kansas. She was born on May 28, 1932, on a farm southeast of Coldwater, Kansas, the daughter of Glenn and Madeline (Marley) McCulla.

She attended Pike Country School and graduated from Coldwater High School in 1950. She received a bachelor’s degree in elementary education from Northwestern State College in Alva in 1954.

On December 27, 1953, she married John McNeely at the Antioch Church in Buttermilk, Kansas. He survives.

She is survived by her husband: John McNeely of Coldwater, K...