Alice D. Corbin Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information

Alice DeAnn Corbin, a woman of faith, was born January 2, 1925 in Mountain View, Oklahoma and passed to eternal life on April 17, 2014. DeAnn was the daughter of Oscar Roy Hollis and Edna Pulaski Reynolds Hollis. The family moved to Alva, Oklahoma in 1925. In 1944 she was married to Chester Corbin and moved from Alva to Liberal, Kansas in 1954 and from Liberal to Wichita, Kansas in 1964. DeAnn graduated from Wichita State University with a BA in religion and a MA in gerontology. She was an accredited legal secretary, an associate for an international trade company, a Menninger Bible Study instructor for over 20 years and at one point was Director of the East Wichita Shepherd’s Center. Her lifelong passion was writing poetry, religious leadership and her weekend hobby for many years was helping at their cattle farm in Chautauqua County, Kansas with Chet. DeAnn was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Riverside Christian Church in Wichita. She was preceded in death by her husband, Chester, her mother, and father, her sisters, Ealon Willey, Gwendolyn Anderson and Daphne Hollis Myers, her granddaughter Laura Ellen Corbin and grandson Caleb Pomeroy. She is survived by her daughter Susan and husband, Dan and her sons Hollis and wife Helen, Andrew and wife Robin, and Matthew. She is also survived by her brother Oscar LeRoy Hollis, four grandsons, three granddaughters, and 12 great grandchildren. DeAnn was a loving daughter, wife, mother, grandmother, and great grandmother. She was a caring, patient, smiling woman, a thoughtful neighbor, a dedicated and unfaltering Christian example for each and every family member and friend. PDF Printable Version

Alice D. Corbin

January 2, 1925 - April 17, 2014