GRACE ELAINE MATHES
May 11, 2022
On Saturday, May 7, 2022, Grace Elaine Mathes went to be with the Lord at the age of 73 years, 3 months and 9 days. Grace was born January 29, 1949, in Liberal, Kansas, to Fred and Zola Mae (Chambers) Harvey.
She grew up there and in Kismet, Kansas, graduating high school at Southwestern Heights in Kismet in 1968. Grace moved to Shawnee in 1982 to raise her daughter Mandy near family. She was a hard-working single mom, working at TDK for 20 years, all the while being active in the school system as a substitute teacher, the band boosters and in her church home Wallace Avenue in Shawnee.
It was in Shawnee that she met John. They were married, June 29, 2002, in Shawnee and later moved to John's hometown of Alva. There they started the Honey Wheat Bed & Breakfast where she catered events and greeted guests with a heartfelt welcome into a cozy home and a hot homemade breakfast. They later moved to their current home at Greensberg Corner where they welcomed their son Thomas Mathes. They opened the old Miller Café as the Honey Wheat Café & Catering in 2011 in Waynoka where Grace continued to welcome everyone with a smile and a homecooked meal. She was a great wife, mother, daughter, and aunt who loved deeply and will be greatly missed by everyone whose life she touched with her warm heart.
She was preceded in death by both parents, Fred and Zol; two brothers, Chet Harvey and Donny Harvey; sisters, Linda Lou Harvey, Calamatty Jane Harvey, and Judy Harvey Turnell Warta Winslow.
She is survived by her husband, John Mathes; son, Thomas Mathes of Carmen, daughter, Mandy Clayton and husband, Oran, of Waynoka; granddaughter, Abbigail Clayton of Waynoka; mother-in-law, Beulah Mathes of Alva; son, Jesse Turnell of Alva; sister, Katherine Edie and husband, Tom, of Bethel; numerous nieces, nephews, and other family and friends.
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 14, 2022, at the Alva Church of God with Pastor Nathan Braudrick officiating. Interment will be in the Galena Cemetery under the direction of Marshall Funeral Home of Alva.
Memorial contributions may be made through the family to the Alva Church of God or the Alva Senior Citizens.
Remembrances may be shared with the family at http://www.marshallfuneralhomes.com.
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