Glenda Jo Tholen, 59, Hays, died Monday, December 5, 2016 at the Hays Medical Center.
She was born November 22, 1957 in Topeka, Kansas the daughter of Donald L. and Imogene (Hale) Butcher. She was a 1975 graduate of Hays High School and received her BS and MS degrees in Political Science from Fort Hays State University. She previously worked at Travenol and Paul MacDonald Chevrolet, and for the last sixteen years was a motor vehicle tax and customer service representative at the Ellis County Treasurer’s Office. On October 4, 1997 she married Bryan Lee Tholen at the First United Methodist Church in Hays. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church, and the Prairie Garden Club. She enjoyed gardening, planting, and tending to her flowers and vegetable garden. She liked scrapbooking, family celebrations and holidays, and spending time with her nieces and nephews. She loved traveling with her friends and sister.
Survivors include her husband, Bryan, of the home, two sisters; Sharon Hamilton and husband Keith of Seattle, WA, and Jamie Malone and husband Jim of Russell, a brother; Dale Butcher and wife Renne of Amarillo, TX, two nieces; Randee Olive of St. John, KS and Hannah Hamilton of Seattle, WA, two nephews; Harris Hamilton of Seattle, and Hadley Butcher of Amarillo, two great nieces; Teixeira Olive and Trexynn Olive, both of St. John, and a great nephew; Tristan Olive of St. John.
She was preceded in death by her parents and a brother, Mark Butcher.
Funeral services will be at 1:30 pm on Friday, December 9, 2016 at the First United Methodist Church, 305 W. 7th, Hays. Inurnment will follow in the Mt. Allen Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6:00 until 8:00 pm on Thursday at the Hays Memorial Chapel Funeral Home, and from 1:00 until service time on Friday at the church. Memorials are suggested to the Cancer Council of Ellis County, the First United Methodist Church, or a random act of kindness can be done in Glenda’s memory. Condolences may be left for the family at www.haysmemorial.com