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- Memorial services for Miles Hargrove Stotts, 102, Hutchinson, were Friday at First United Methodist Church, Baldwin City. Private burial was in a Baldwin Cemetery.
Mr. Stotts died Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2002, at Mennonite Retirement Community, Hutchinson.
He was born May 20, 1900, in Terre Haute, Ind., the son of Fred Hargrove and Jessie Belle (McClellan) Stotts. He attended school in Clinton, Mo., and Marionville Academy, Marionville, Mo. He received his bachelor's degree in abstentia from Baker University in May1926 while he attended Boston University School of Theology. He received his Master's of Divinity on June 9, 1928.
Mr. Stotts spent 60 years in the active ministry of the United Methodist Church. He served churches in the St. Louis area, western Missouri, Elmdale, Strong City and Moline. He moved to Baldwin after he retired. He was curator of Old Castle Museum at Baker for 17 years and assistant pastor for the Rev. Kirby Hayes at First United Methodist Church in Baldwin for three years. He moved to Hutchinson in July 1993. He was a member of East Kansas Conference of the United Methodist Church, Baldwin City Rotary Club, Palmyra Masonic Lodge of Baldwin and Scottish Rite in St. Joseph, Mo.
He married Edith Pezoldt on June 9, 1928. She died in 1952 in St. Joseph. He later married Elnora Florence Knehans. She survives of the home.
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1900 - 2002 (102 years)
