Helen Edna Fenton

Helen Edna (Blanz) Fenton, age 91 of Bonner Springs, Kansas passed away on Thursday July 12, 2007 at the Tonganoxie Nursing Center. Funeral Services will be 10:00am Monday July 16th at the Alden-Harrington Funeral Home with burial to follow in the Glenwood Cemetery. A visitation will be from 4 to 6pm on Sunday also at the funeral home. Memorial Contributions can be made to the Alzheimer's Association in care of the funeral home. Helen was born on January 4th, 1916 on her family's farm in rural Bonner Springs, KS. In 1933 she was married to Elton Lloyd Fenton and they were married for 61 years until he preceded her in death in 1994. She had worked at Bonner Springs Floral in the 1960s. She was a lifelong member of the oldest HDU unit in Kansas, the Glenwood Mother Daughter Canning Club. She and Elton were very active members of the Northeast Kansas Beekeepers Assoc., she had also worked at the Kerns Nursery in Bonner Springs. As truck farmers they could often be seen as vendors at local Farmers Markets. She was preceded in death by all of her siblings and grandson John Douglas Fenton and by a great-granddaughter Jessica Wednesday Stewart. Survivors include her four children Ernest Elton Fenton and wife Helen of Kimball, MN., Marjorie Helen Dunham and husband Jack of Bonner Springs, Frank Roy Fenton and wife Carole of Ingleside, TX., Esther Carrie Fenton of Sequim, WA., 16 grandchildren and 30 great-grandchildren, 2 great-great grandchildren Arrangements Alden-Harrington Funeral Home 214 Oak St. Bonner Springs, KS. 66012 (913) 422-4074