Delyte Cantwell

Elva Delyte "Staton" Cantwell passed away to be with her Lord and Savior on Friday, September 24, 2010. Delyte was born April 12, 1924 to Roscoe "Curly" Staton and Edith O. Martin Staton, the first daughter and first granddaughter on both sides of the family. She was very special and a "delight" to all. Delyte attended Eureka "country" school, Pleasanton High School and Fort Scott College. She then taught 1 to 8 grades at Walnut Valley in the Fairmount area of Linn Co. She married Leslie Roy Cantwell September 25, 1943, then on to be a farmer's wife. They sold out and moved to Independence, MO in 1951, where Roy was employed at Remington Arms, Lake City for many years. Having no children of their own, they took many nieces, nephews, and "friends' children home with them a week at a time. She enjoyed showing them the exciting things for country kids; the malls, zoo, buses, and downtown Kansas City. They helped purchase the Cantwell family farm in the Fairmount area and spent many happy hours there. When Roy retired in 1989, they bought a house and moved to Pleasanton. Delyte was a member of the Baptist Church in Independence, then the Christian Church in Pleasanton. She spent many hours working in both, with the ladies group, Bible schools, teenagers, and wherever she was needed. They adopted a son, February 1957, Thomas Cantwell and were foster parents to Mike Leggatt and Sydney Morgan. Delyte worked in the P.T.A., and Cub and Boy Scouts. She volunteered at the Harry S. Truman Home as a hostess, senior citizens, Meals on Wheels, Trading Post and Linn County Museum. She was preceded in death by her parents, her beloved husband, Roy, three sisters, Virginia Cox, Rosemary Johnson and Oralee Troth, one brother, Roy Staton and an infant brother, Walter Dallas. Survivors include her three children, four grandchildren, Micheal, Hunter, Meri Brooke and Megan, three great grandchildren, her brother, Roscoe Staton and wife, Janet Dean, one sister, Zella Baston and husband, Chet, sister-in-law, Pansy Staton and two brothers-in-law, Bob Cox and Calvin "Shorty" Johnson. Services will be held at 2:00 PM, Sunday, September 26, 2010 at the Coffel-Schneider Chapel, Pleasanton, Kansas. Visitation will be from 3-5 PM, Saturday at the chapel. Contributions are suggested to the Littell Cemetery or Pleasanton Residencies Activity Fund. Interment will be in Littell Cemetery, Pleasanton, Kansas. Online condolences may be left for the family at www.coffelschneider.com Arrangements: Coffel-Schneider Funeral Home, Pleasanton, Kansas.