Edith Nocktonic Mattwaoshe Wahweotten

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Obituary- Wahweotten, Edith

Edith M. Wahweotten
MAYETTA - Mrs. Edith Mattwaoshe Wahweotten, 81, Mayetta, died Thursday, June 23, 1988, at the scene of a two-vehicle collision at N.W. 46th and US 75.

She was born June 7, 1907, at Mayetta, the daughter of Joe and Nancy Dellinger Nocktonic. She lived in Topeka several years and in Mayetta the past 12 years.

Mrs. Wahweotten was a member of Citizen Bank-Potawatomi Tribe and Indian Tribal Drum Religion.

Her first husband, Joe Mattwaoshe, died in 1960. She was married to Ray Wahweotten Aug. 19, 1976. He survives. A son, Edward Joseph Mattwaoshe, died in 1931.

Other survivors include three daughters, Melvina Guerrero and Ophelia Nicholson, both of Topeka, and Rosetta Anderson, St. Marys; a brother, George Nocktonic, Topeka; five grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.

Indian Tribal Drum services will be Saturday evening at the Dance Ground west of Mayetta. Burial will be Sunday afternoon in Dance Ground Cemetery. Mercer Funeral Home of Holton is in charge of arrangements.