Imogene Phyllis Thayer

Imogene Phyllis (Bird) Thayer passed away Saturday, January 30, 2016 at Rooks County Health Center, Plainville, Kansas at the age of 86. She was born December 4, 1929 in Hill City, Kansas to the late Basil and Susan (Howell) Bird. She grew up in the Bogue/Stockton/Woodston area along with 6 brothers and sisters and graduated from Woodston High School in 1948. On April 1, 1953, she married Austin Thayer in Stockton, Kansas. They lived on various Air Force bases in Nebraska, Wyoming, and California before retiring to Kansas with their three children. Imogene was a homemaker but also delivered babies at the Harwood Home in Stockton and worked several years at Ernest Laundry & Dry Cleaning, Norton and the Solomon Valley Manor, Stockton. Her favorite job, however, was in being a grandmother to 9 children. Imogene will be lovingly remembered by her sons Kevin Thayer and wife Susan, and Pat Thayer and wife Lorna, both of Stockton; her daughter Jenny Thayer-Wood and husband Tobias Wood, of Auburn, Kansas; 8 grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; brothers James and wife Gail, Almena, Kansas, and Charles and wife Jackie, Arvada, Colorado; sisters Sharon Wente and husband Rod, Quinter, Kansas, and Ginger Hazlett and husband Ron, Burlington, Kansas; and many nieces, nephews, cousins and other family members and friends. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband Austin, brother Eldon Bird, sister Normagene McIntyre, and grandson Lewis Thayer. A Celebration of Life will be held Saturday, February 6, 2016, 11 a.m. at the Plumer-Overlease Funeral Home, Stockton, Kansas. A private family burial will take place at a later date.