Ethel A. (Turner) Thornton of Overland Park, Kansas, passed away peacefully on August 9, 2020, in her home at Village Shalom.

She was born on July 14, 1926, of honest hardworking parents on their northwestern Oklahoma farm. She was taught a deep sense of right and wrong, sensitivity and respect for others.

Ethel and her siblings graduated from Freedom (Oklahoma) High School and three of them went on to Northwestern Oklahoma State University in Alva. Ethel graduated with a BS degree in education and home economics.

She taught elementary students in Liberal, Kansas, and Olathe, Kansas, and also...