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Elsie Feathers Obituary

Elsie Evalyn Feathers
10/31/1929-10/1/2017

Mom peacefully began her journey to Heaven on October 1, 2017 to be reunited with her cherished husband David Winston Feathers, her parents Christian and Elsie Miley, her step-father Manuel Alves, her older brother Christian Jr. who died at four days old, her two sons Hugo Chris Thomas and Thomas Thomas Thomas (T3), and many other loved ones.
Mom was born in Lancaster Pennsylvania, an only living child who grew up in a little house on a city street of businesses that included her father's lock company. Mom learned to cook alongside her mother preparing daily lunches for the company employees including dozens of 10 cent hand-held apple pies baked in a wood stove. Mom's dream was to raise a big family in the country. At 19 years old, she moved to California, driving her parents and their little dog Skipper all the way across the country on Route 66 in a 1934 Ford.
Mom worked various jobs including a phone switchboard operator and Real Estate Broker, but mainly was our great mother bearing and tirelessly raising seven children for 35 years. Her amazing strength included her father passing away one week before she gave birth to her first baby in 1952, and her mother passing away just before she gave birth to her last baby in 1969. Mom was 4-H cooking and beef leader, cared for our ailing dad when he contracted polio and one child born with Down's Syndrome, and served her church. In 1985, Mom founded the annual Thanksgiving Day Community Dinner at the Lincoln Veterans Memorial Building and volunteered for years serving and delivering meals.
Mom is survived by our dad Earl Thomas, her children (Carolyn, B.J., Manuel, Jim, Susie) and their spouses, and numerous cousins, nieces, nephews, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and lifelong friends. We thank Mom's son Jim Thomas and his wife Cheryl Thomas for their boundless and loving care-giving to our mother. Mom is an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints at 1155 Liberty Lane in Lincoln. We greatly appreciate and thank them for all of their love and support during this difficult time. Memorial Service is Wednesday Oct. 18, 2017 at 10 a.m.
Published in the Lincoln News Messenger on Thursday October 12, 2017

Published by Auburn Journal on Oct. 12, 2017.
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My heartfelt sympathy goes out to your family at this difficult time. Please find peace in knowing that God understands your grief and that he cares. (1 Peter 5:6,7)

October 21, 2017

So glad we crossed paths with your mother. See always had fun with us when we would come stay at her lake house property. I still remember her riding our jet ski. It was fun to also a play with all of her kids when we were adults. She took our daughters with her to church on Sundays when we came to camp. Great memories
Bruce And Dee Cunningham

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October 16, 2017

My thoughts and prayers are with you in your time of grief. May your memories bring you comfort.

Annie Horne

October 16, 2017

May the God of comfort be with you at this time

Connie

October 13, 2017

My sincere condolences for the lost of your beloved one. May her memories along with prayers and God"s comforte everyone in the family. Psalms chapter 34.verse 18. SINCERELY YOURS.

Judith

October 12, 2017

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