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A gift of $5,000 was willed to Bethel college by Katie Moore of Mount Hope, Kansas, according to an item in newspapers that reached the college campus on Friday morning, March 25. There was something dramatic about the gift. No one knew the benefactress except for the few printed facts. | A gift of $5,000 was willed to Bethel college by Katie Moore of Mount Hope, Kansas, according to an item in newspapers that reached the college campus on Friday morning, March 25. There was something dramatic about the gift. No one knew the benefactress except for the few printed facts. | ||
The first floor of the Memorial hall, being erected in memory of Kansas pioneers, had been begun. The board of directors of the college had voted to build | The first floor of the Memorial hall, being erected in memory of Kansas pioneers, had been begun. The board of directors of the college had voted to build only the ground floor as that was all the money available at the time. But a recent development among Kansas Brick manufacturers enabled the college to buy bricks far below the customary price. Could the bricks not be purchased at this saving and held until the school felt it could go ahead with the rest of the hall? | ||
[[Category:Mennonite Weekly Review obituaries]] | [[Category:Mennonite Weekly Review obituaries]] | ||
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Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1938 Apr 13 p. 2
Birth date: 1865 Jun 13
text of obituary:
Pioneer Kansas Woman Bequeathes $5,000 to Local Institution
Mrs. Katie Bender Moore of Mount Hope, Kansas, who left $5,000 in her will to Bethel college, is shown above with her husband Mr. John F. Moore. Mrs. Moore came with her parents to Kansas in 1882 and five years later married Mr. Moore, the son of a family who had also settled at Mount Hope, Kansas. A bronze plate in memory of these two pioneers will be placed in the entrance hall of the $100,000 Memorial building now under construction at Bethel college. A memorial biography of Mrs. Moore is printed in this issue of the Review. It is the third of a series of such life stories prepared by the college.
Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1938 Apr 13 p. 5
text of obituary:
A gift of $5,000 was willed to Bethel college by Katie Moore of Mount Hope, Kansas, according to an item in newspapers that reached the college campus on Friday morning, March 25. There was something dramatic about the gift. No one knew the benefactress except for the few printed facts.
The first floor of the Memorial hall, being erected in memory of Kansas pioneers, had been begun. The board of directors of the college had voted to build only the ground floor as that was all the money available at the time. But a recent development among Kansas Brick manufacturers enabled the college to buy bricks far below the customary price. Could the bricks not be purchased at this saving and held until the school felt it could go ahead with the rest of the hall?