Elda Ruth Hamit

Elda Hamit passed away on Monday morning, July 17, 2023, at the Rooks County Health Center at the age of 100. Elda was born on May 17, 1923, to Leo and Eva (Atkinson) Elliott in Torrington, Wyoming.
She spent the first two and one-half years of her life in Wyoming before moving to Kansas where she enjoyed growing up on the farm in northern Rooks County. She attended country school in Bow Creek Township for the first 6 years of grade school and then 2 more years Phillips County. She graduated from Logan High School and planned to go to college to become a teacher. To raise money for college she took a teaching job at a nearby county school and during her first year of teaching, there happened to be a local farmer who stopped by to look for a lost calf. She later learned from her students that the farmer with the lost calf often stopped by whenever there was a new schoolteacher. This time it paid off! In just a few short months, on April 22nd, 1942, Elda became Mrs. Marion Hamit, and the thoughts of college became a distant memory. From that time on she was happy with her role as farmwife, mother (of three very "active" sons), grandmother, great-grandmother, and great-great-grandmother.
Elda was highly active in her community, serving on numerous committees, leadership positions, and boards. Elda spent her time with her sons as they went through 4-H with their many projects. She also assisted the youth of Mt Pleasant 4-H club with their cooking and sewing. Elda judged sewing for 4-H at the fair. She was an avid quilter and loved making quilts for all her family with special emphasis on making sure each grandchild and great-grandchild had one of her quilts. Elda was also a great cook! She loved trying new recipes and often her family got to be taste testers, which was usually a rewarding opportunity.
Elda loved to read and upon retirement she and Marion were able to travel and visit numerous locations, foreign and domestic, that she had read about that had a common interest to them.
Her faith was especially important to her and during her child-raising years she invoked a special emphasis to her boys on the importance of having God first in their lives. In her later years, she was able to witness that her efforts were not in vain (though she may have, on more than one occasion, wondered). She was a member of the Mt Pleasant Church in NW Rooks County until the church closed its doors in 1979 and then she attended Stockton Methodist Church until she was no longer physically able to attend.
Elda was preceded in death by her parents, Leo and Eva Elliott, her sister, Maxine Cook, her husband, Marion Hamit, and a grandson, Judd Hamit.
She is survived by her children, Charles (Barbara) Hamit, Nowata OK., Richard (Lila) Hamit, Overbrook, KS., Donald (Terry) Hamit, Stockton, KS. Five grandchildren: Rich (Kristy) Hamit, Marlyn (Adam) Bryant, Joni (Kurt) Seboe, Carlie (Brian) Sturgeon, and Josh (Patricia) Hamit. Thirteen great grandchildren: Clayton and Landon Becker, Brenden (Kiersten) Hamit, Harris Hamit (Jason, fiancé), Haley (Scott) Cleveland, Kira (Jordan) Johansen, Alec and Braden Seboe, Morgan (Dakota) Enslow, Aricka Miller, Elisabeth Sturgeon, Elliott and Penny Hamit. Four, soon to be five great-great-grandchildren: Bryson and Emmaline Hamit, Sophia Cleveland, CJ Enslow, and with one more on the way. Elda also had her four nieces: Margaret Elliott, Sue Regier, Nancy Huffman, and Kristi Utchell.
Funeral services are planned for 10:00 a.m. Monday, July 24, 2023, at the Stockton Methodist Church (Church of Restoration) in Stockton with burial to follow in Mount Vernon Cemetery. Visitation will be Sunday from 4:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. at the funeral home with family receiving friends from 4:00 p.m. until 6:00 p.m.
Memorials are suggested to the Stockton Methodist Church (Elevator Fund) and may be sent to Plumer-Overlease Funeral Home, 723 N. 1st, Stockton, KS 67669.