Rhonda Stithem 1964-2023

Rhonda L. Stithem, 59, of Jetmore, passed away on Friday, April 14, 2023, at St. Luke’s Hospital in Kansas City.

She was born Feb. 20, 1964, in San Diego, Calif., the daughter of Ronald and Stella Daigrepont Yaussi. She graduated from Horton High School in 1982.

Rhonda was a member of the Jetmore Presbyterian Church and a board member of the Hodgeman County Farm Bureau. She was very involved with the county 4-H Foundation and many other volunteer groups of which she wasn’t a member.

She worked with Kansas State Research and Extension Service for 27 years. After that she had worked in the Hodgeman County Register of Deeds office for the past year.

She married Jerry D. Stithem on March 10, 1984, at Hoyt. He survives.

Rhonda was preceded in death by her father and a brother, Clay Yaussi.

Other survivors include her mother, Stella Yaussi of the Fort Worth, Texas area; two sons, Jason Andrew Stithem (Renay), Overbrook, and Justin Stithem (Kimberly), Fredonia; a sister, Charity Martin (Steve), of the Fort Worth, Texas area; a brother, Mark Yaussi (Anita), Austin, Texas; eight grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews.

Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, April 20 at First Baptist Church in Hoyt. Burial will follow in Hoyt Cemetery. Rhonda will lie in state after 9 a.m. Wednesday at Chapel Oaks Funeral Home in Hoyt, where family and friends will meet from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. A memorial service in Jetmore will be scheduled for a later date.

Memorials are suggested to the Rhonda Stithem Memorial Fund, to be designated later and sent in care of Chapel Oaks Funeral Home, P.O. Box 280, Hoyt, KS 66440. Online condolences may be made at chapeloaksfuneralhome.com

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