Obituary
Mildred E. Otis
1914-1999

Mildred was baptized September 20, 1931, and she was a member of the Plum Creek Evangelical United Brethren Church.

She taught in several grade schools in Phillips County - Crow, Science Valley, Agra and Gretna. She also taught in Otis and Lacrosse, Kansas. After receiving her Bachelor of Arts degree from Ft. Hays State, she taught math at college for a while then transferred to teach the Star Unit, US Army Air Force stationed at Walker Field.

From there she moved to Washington, D.C. to work at the Naval Tidal Basin. In her time off she both attended and taught at George Washington University. In 1946, she moved to Bloomington, Indiana to both attend and teach at the University of Indiana. In 1947 she moved to Lawrence, Kansas to both teach and attend Kansas University, where she received her law degree.

Before starting her law office in Agra she served one full term as the Representative from this area in the Kansas Legislature in Topeka. She then moved back to Phillips County and set up her law office in Agra.

She cared for her parents until their deaths in 1967 and 1980. Mildred was preceded in death by her parents and a nephew, Kenneth Otis. Survivors include her brothers, Fred C. Otis and wife, Muriel, of Salina, Kansas and John H. Otis and wife, Gretchelle, of Agra, Kansas and by nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.

She was an attorney at law and a member of the American Bar Association and the Kansas Bar Association.

Mildred will be missed by her brothers, nieces, nephews and other relatives.