Carmen J. Cady

Carmen Josephine Cady was born December 25, 1922 to Fred James and Florence Hazel Alsop Richards in rural Scottsville, Kansas. Most of her life was lived at Scottsville until failing health required her to live at Sunset Home in Concordia and Angel Square in Beloit. She was a farm wife by the best traditional definition of the word. Her primary interests were her family, weather as it affected crops and crops prices. Carmen, known to many as Mimi, married James Henry Cady on September 2, 1941 in Beloit, Kansas. She was a genuine help suitable for a Kansas farmer. She kept the books. In early years, she drove tractors. During the years they had a cage layer chicken house she processed 1300 to 1400 days daily, seven days a week. She took delicious and abundant meals to hands in the field, especially during harvest and hay seasons. Her bar-b-que baked beans, scalloped potatoes and made-from-scratch cinnamon rolls disappeared quickly regardless of the quantity both in the field and a church and community potlucks. When her parent's in-law Holly and Thirza Cady, became aged and frail, she did for them as she would her biological present. Those acts of kinds, cooking or for them, doing their laundry, and transporting them did not go unnoticed nor unappreciated. Jim and Carmen had two children, Dennis James and Jolene Marie. Carmen was as Scottsville as anyone could be, with roots deep and involvement in most community church and community affairs. She passed away in Beloit, Kansas, on August 11, 2016, at the age of 93.

She was preceded in death by an infant brother, Junior; her parents, siblings Betty Dunckley, Burton Richards, and a great granddaughter, Hope Cady.

Survivors include her children Dennis Cady and his wife Susan of Wichita Falls, Texas; Jolene Carter and her husband Russell of Scottsville, Kansas; seven grandchildren, eleven great grandchildren, and a brother, Eugene Richards.

Funeral Services will be held at 1:30 P.M. Saturday, August 13, 2016 at the McDonald Funeral Home. Burial will follow in Scottsville Cemetery. Memorials may be given to Starfish Ministries. Visitation will be from 1:00 P.M. until 8:00 P.M. Friday at the McDonald Funeral Home.