Alva Review-Courier -

Funeral services for Marlene Kern will be Wednesday, April 11, 2018, at 2 p.m. at Cherokee First Baptist Church with Rev. Garry McNeill officiating. Burial will follow in the Cherokee Municipal Cemetery. Wharton Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements. Online condolences may be made at www.whartonfuneralchapel.com.

Minnie Marlene was born to Margaret (Bruner) and Amby Gray in Cherokee at the old hospital on January 29, 1937, and passed from this life on April 4, 2018, peacefully at home at the age of 81 years, 2 months and 6 days.

She was raised in Kiowa, Kansas, until the death of her fat...