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Elnora Florence Knehans Stotts was the youngest daughter of German immigrants, Gustav William and Amelia Kathrina Knehans whose native language was German.. She was born on the family homestead near Beemont, Missouri on January 25, 1914. Her grandparents donated the land for the Beemont Zion Methodist Episcopal Church and her many years of service to the Methodist Church began there. She had two older sisters, Alma and Clara. As a young teenager, Elnora left home to work in St Louis, graduated fom Dotson High School and then worked for the Missouri Department of Health.

Elnora received her Bachelor of Arts from Baker University in Baldwin City, Kansas in 1947, and continued her higher education at the Methodist National Training School in Kansas City in preparation for foreign missionary service. She attended Cornell University in Ithaca, NY and learned Chinese. However, political unrest in China caused her to be assigned to the Phillipines; First Methodist Church in Baldwin City was her sponsoring church. Elnora taught at mission schools for five years until her long-time friend, Rev. Miles H. Stotts proposed marriage by sending an engagement ring in the mail and asking Bishop Valencia to release her from mission service in order that she might return to the US and become the wife of a Methodist minister.

Elnora married Miles H. Stotts on December 5, 1952. Miles passed on November 12, 2002. They had two children, Miles Hargrove Stotts II and Kathrina Belle (Stotts) Juby, and five grandchildren, Amy and Sara Stotts and Andrew, Adam and Alex Juby. Miles and Elnora served six Methodist churches in Missouri and Kansas until his retirement in 1968. They returned to Baldwin City and their beloved Baker University and remained active in First Methodist Church for 25 years. Elnora was a life-long member of the United Methodist Women and served as President of the UMW at Baldwin First. In 1993 they moved to Hutchinson, Kansas to be closer to their family. She lived at the Graber House in Mennonite Manor in South Hutchinson until her death on June 20, 2009.

Funeral services were held at 10:00 AM Saturday at the First United Methodist Church, Hutchinson, with Reverend Mark Conard presiding. Graveside services were held at 6:00 PM Saturday at the Oakwood Cemetery, Baldwin City, Kansas. Friends were able to sign the register book from 9AM to 9PM Thursday and 9AM to 5PM Friday at Penwelll-Gabel Funeral Home and Crematory, Hutchinson. Memorial contributions may be made to the World Missions, in care of First United Methodist Church, Hutchinson.

Published by the Penwell-Gabel Funeral Home web-site on June 23, 2009.

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Elnora married Miles Hargrove Stotts on 5 Dec 1952. Miles was born on 20 May 1900 in Terre Haute, Vigo County, Indiana, United States; died on 12 Nov 2002 in Terre Haute, Vigo County, Indiana, United States; was buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Douglas County, Kansas, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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