Southwest Daily Times - Oct. 6, 1969 - Liberal, Kansas Mrs. Cora A. Heath, 89, widow of Ralph M. Heath, died shortly before midnight Monday at Southwest Medical Center where she had been receiving treatment the past two weeks. She was born May 11, 1880, at Walnut Grove, Mo. In 1884, she came with her parents, the late Mr. & Mrs. W.H. Coats, to Barber County, Kan., and two years later the family moved to a claim in the Oklahoma panhandle to a farm east of the present site of Tyrone where she grew to womanhood. She and Mr. Heath were married at the family home in 1901. Their first home was in Liberal where Mr. Heath was a teacher in the Liberal schools. Shortly thereafter they moved to their farm in the Pleasant Valley community 11 miles northwest of Liberal, farming there until Mr. Heath's death in 1948. A year later Mrs. Heath moved to Liberal where she resided until her death. Mrs. Heath was the first member received into the Tyrone Baptist church after it was organized. She was a charter member of the Bethel Baptist church in the Pleasant Valley community and transferred her membership to the Liberal First Baptist church when the Bethel church disbanded. For over 25 years she was the teacher of the IXL class of the Liberal First Baptist church. She was an honorary member of the State Board of American Baptist Women's Society, and a past president of the Southwest Kansas Women's Mission Society. She was a charter member of the Seward County W.C.T.U., a member of the Liberal Women's club, the Live and Learn H.D.U. and the Seward County Republican Women's club. She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. W.D. (Estelle) Carr, Wichita, Mrs. Horace (Elnora) Malin, Liberal, and Mrs. Ellis (Freda) Jackson, Wichita; one sister, Mrs. Clayton Hoover, Tyrone; six grandchildren and 11 great-grand- children. Funeral services will be conducted Thursday at 2 p.m. from the First Baptist church by the Rev. Darrell Robinson pastor, and Charles Brisendine. Burial will be in the Liberal cemetery.