Margaret Evelyn Fenton Chatham

Margaret Evelyn Fenton Chatham passed away on June 17, 2024, at the Osborne County Memorial Hospital. in Osborne.

She was born July 16, 1926, near Hunter, Kansas, In the Blue Hill Community to Albert and Etta (King) Fenton. Margaret grew up in the Mitchell, Rooks, Russell, and Osborne County areas. Her parents moved several times during the Dirty 30’s. Margaret graduated from Osborne High School in 1944. After graduation from High School, Margaret attended Brown Mackie School of Business in Salina, Kansas, for two and half years and then was employed by Lynn Abstract and Title Company in Salina.

On August 24, 1947, Margaret married Roy Chatham, Jr. Margaret and Roy celebrated 74 years of marriage. From 1947 to 2012, they farmed and ranched on the Chatham family farm northeast of Luray in the Cheyenne Community. They were blessed with the birth of two daughters, Rita and Karen.

Margaret was the farm's bookkeeper. She milked cows, raised chickens, took meals to the field, gardened, canned, baked, sewed, taught Sunday School, served as church treasurer, church women’s leader, and 4-H Leader, chauffeured her girls to numerous school activities, and worked for a short time at the Osborne Livestock Commission Company on Sale day.

Margaret enjoyed learning and helping people. Margaret enjoyed playing the piano and was Rita and Karen’s first piano teacher. She played the piano for enjoyment and loved to sing. Margaret listened to many hours of her daughters practicing their instruments.

Margaret was a member of the Cheyenne United Methodist Church until it closed and then attended and became a member of the Osborne Free Methodist Church.

She was preceded in death by her parents, two sisters, Neva (Wendell) Berry and Lela (George) Scott, and her husband, Roy.

She is survived by her daughters, Rita (William) Blauvelt and Karen (Patrick) Call; one grandson, Garrett (Sarah) Call; and three great-grandchildren, Graham, Lawson, and Sybil.