Marian “Everyln” White Kiser
Marian “Evelyn” White Kiser (February 2, 1936 – April 13, 2025) AKA Mom (Connie and Perry Hutson; Eugene “Chunk” and Andrea Kiser), Nan, NanNan, Nannypan (Will and Cindy; Lynlea; and Addy), Sister (Marjorie Jo White and Janice Ruth Wyatt), beloved daughter (Joseph Lee and Edith Bell White – deceased), fun aunt to many nieces and nephews; and friend to many, departed this Earth Sunday, April 13, 2025. She joins her husband Eugene “Big Gene” Kiser in farmers heaven. Meeting Gene in the first grade set the path for what later became a 52-year marriage until his death in 2007. She was surrounded by green acres and Holstein cows. When her children were young, she grew her farm wife talents being a member of Young Farmers and Ewalt Homemakers. She even attended Georgetown College in hopes of becoming an
elementary school teacher. Then the local county school superintendent offered her a position with Bourbon County Schools as an elementary school paraprofessional at Ruddles Mills Elementary and later Bourbon Central Elementary. Did she teach you how to read or write? Can you add or subtract because of her instruction? She later became the school secretary there, at Bourbon Central Elementary, and Bourbon County High School. Her career with school children lasted over 32 years.
Active at Ruddles Mills Christian Church and Bedford Acres Christian Church, she was a Sunday School teacher, Ladies Circle member, sang soprano in the church choir and believed that as a Christian you love one another. Her favorite bible verse was found in Matthew 22 – “Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself”. Still some pretty good advice even for today.
She extended this love to family, friends and neighbors, farm hands, hoboes off the railroad, school children, fellow homemakers, international exchange students and adults, and animals. There were always hordes of dogs, cats, hamsters, and aquarium fish brought in by her children and grandchildren.
She was involved in her community through the League of Women Voters, Historical Society, and Planning and Zoning. She loved the peacefulness of nature, planting flowers and gardens, walks on the farm, sitting on the back of the tobacco sitter (where we might add she looked like a queen and somehow never managed to get dirty), painting, movies, and reading . She mowed the yard for years on her John Deere mower. She and Gene moved off the Peacock Road in 2000 and became Millersburg residents. In 2020 she moved back to Down to Earth Farm on North Middletown Road, living her last few days like she started – surrounded by green acres.
Services will be held Saturday, April 19, 2025 at First Presbyterian Church on Pleasant Street in Paris. Visitation is 11a.m. to 2 p.m. with services starting at 2:00 p.m. Interment will follow the service at the Millersburg Cemetery. She did love flowers if you would like to send something. There will be sunflower and forget me not seeds for everyone to take home and plant this spring. As a well-known chocoholic, she also wanted to serve a Candy Bar with take home treats for everyone.
Pastors Darnaby Kerns and Carl Willoughby will lead her service. Casket bearers will be Will Kiser, John Fuller, Scott Fuller, B.C. Wyatt, Paul Davis, and Ben Rankin. Honorary bearers include her wonderful caregivers Mela Cruz, Judith Richardson, Veronica Duncan, Sharon Bromagen, and Evelyn Hughs. Donations in her honor may be made to the angels at Bluegrass Care Navigators Hospice Care or the Paris Bourbon County Community Choir. Hinton-Turner Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. www.hintonturner.com
A final thought… Tonight, when you look up, don’t think of them as stars. Think of them as porch lights welcoming your loved one safely home.
