Cleta Marie Cornett

Cleta Marie Cornett obituary, Clearwater, KS

Cleta Marie Cornett

Cleta Cornett Obituary

Visit the Webb-Shinkle Mortuary - Clearwater website to view the full obituary.
It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of our beloved Mother & Grandmother, Cleta Marie (Glenn) Cornett, age 96, of Clearwater, Kansas.
Cleta died Sunday, May 25, 2025, at the Oxford Grand Assisted Living and Memory Care Unit in Wichita, Kansas.
Cleta was born on November 25, 1928 in Delaware County, Oklahoma where she spent her entire childhood.
She was the fourth of six children to her parents, Thomas A. Glenn and Lottie F. (Hagar) Glenn. She received eight years of elementary education in Bethel Oklahoma and four years of high school in the Colcord, Oklahoma school districts.
She was united in marriage to Calvin L. Cornett on June 12, 1949 at the Maysville, Arkansas Baptist Church. They made their first home in Cave Springs, Arkansas in 1953. The Cornett's then moved to Wichita, Kansas, where they resided for thirty-five years and raised two children. Cleta was primarily a homemaker but worked briefly as a nurse, a board of education tech, librarian, and in the cafeteria at Boeing.
After the Haysville tornado in 1991 destroyed there home, Cleta and Calvin moved to Clearwater, Kansas, where they attended the First Baptist Church. She resided in Clearwater for thirty-one years and the spring of 2023 moved to Wichita, Kansas into a nursing home.
Visitation will be held Friday, May 30 at 1pm followed by Funeral Services at 2pm both at the Clearwater First Baptist Church 306 E Ross St, Clearwater, Kansas.
She is preceded in death by her spouse, Calvin Cornett; parents, Thomas and Lottie Glenn; siblings, Victor Glenn, Hester Wilhelm, Ralph Glenn, Howard Glenn, and Andy Glenn.
Survived by children, Gerald (Joyce) Cornett of Wichita and Yvonne (Nick) Keiss of Clearwater; four grandchildren; ten great-grandchildren.
In lieu of flowers, Memorials: Clearwater First Baptist Church 306 E Ross St, Clearwater, KS 67026.
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