Lila Rule, 91, passed away on March 25, 2019 at Decatur County Hospital. She was the daughter of Leonard and Mary Jane (Whetstone) Johnson, one of 12 children, she was born on April 26, 1927 in Norton County.

She was a graduate of Norton High School. Lila then married John E. Rule on March 2, 1945 in Clayton, KS where they spent most of their lives after a few years in Oregon while he was in the Navy.

To this union were four children: John (Loraine) Rule of Starke, FL, Peggy (John) Mast of Emporia, KS, Jerold Rule of Osage City, KS, and Carol (Stan) Miller of Norcatur, KS.

Lila worked as a postal clerk in Clayton, KS and at Rule Grain Company during busy harvest times. John passed on February 1, 2009. Lila then moved to Whispering Pines in Norton then to Good Samaritan Society in Oberlin in August 2018.

Survivors include her children; sister, Helen Rohr of Goodland, KS and a special nephew, Don Strevey of Omaha, NE; grandchildren: Amy Siple, Doug Rule, Jason Rule, Michael Long, Melissa DeDonder, and Justine Tuttle; 17 great-grandchildren; 2 step great-grandchildren; 3 sister-in-laws. She was preceded in death by her parents; husband; brothers: Ed, Kenneth, Harold, Calvin, Lloyd, Dwight, and Herbert; sisters: Kathryn Bowman, Maxine Gruse, and Betty Johnson; 3 grandchildren: Joel Miller, John Blake Petracek, and Jeannie Marie Petracek and great -grandson, Andrew Bryan Rule.

Private burial will be in Clayton Cemetery, officiated by Pastor Gordon Pettibone. Arrangements by: Pauls Funeral Home, Oberlin. Condolences may be left at www.paulsfh.com