Kay Bone, aged 79, of Greenville, formerly of Maroa, Illinois, passed away peacefully at home 4:12 p.m. Wednesday, May 14, 2025.
Funeral services will be held at 1:00 p.m. Thursday, May 22, 2025, at the Donnell-Wiegand Funeral Home with Pastor Glenn Kreider officiating. Interment will follow in Mt. Auburn Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 11:00 a.m. until service time Thursday at Donnell–Wiegand Funeral Home. Memorials in Kay's memory to Lemuel Rhodes Cancer Foundation.
Wynette Kay Wikoff, the daughter of Ross Bernard Wikoff and Audrey Alice (Thrift) Wykoff, was born on Friday May 25, 1945, in Decatur, Illinois. Kay was raised in Maroa, Illinois, where she attended the public schools and graduated from Maroa High School with the Class of 1963. Kay went on to Illinois State University where she graduated with her BS in Education in 1968. Kay taught Home Economics in Litchfield, Illinois until 1970 when she moved to Mulberry Grove High School and continued teaching there until 1973. She taught in Palm Beach County High School in Florida for 7 years, moving to Charlotte County High School where she taught until her retirement in 2000.
Kay and Lowell T. Bone were united in marriage on August 15, 1975, at Kay’s home Church, the Maroa Christian Church. Kay and Lowell made their home in Florida building their house on Paar Circle on the waterfront. They enjoyed Florida and their friends there in the winter but always returned to the Bone family farm in Greenville during morel mushroom season. They enjoyed their large garden and selling produce here in Greenville’s Farmer’s Market near the tracks and from their roadside stand. Kay and Lowell enjoyed girls high school basketball games especially the Teutopolis team and often spent 4-5 evenings a week supporting the team during their season, for many years. They had a special bond with the girls and Kay received an autographed wooden shoe from them at Lowell’s passing.
Kay and Lowell travelled extensively out west, including North and South Dakota and Utah, where Lowell enjoyed hunting big game and Kay cooked delicious meals for their friends.
Kay is survived by two of her brothers: Roger L. Wykoff and wife Sheila of Maroa, Rickie L. Wykoff and wife Nancy, of Maroa, many nieces, nephews, and a host of cousins. Kay is also survived by Laura McMann, who Kay referred to as their “almost daughter,” of Sellersville, PA and her son Griffin McMann. Kay and Lowell also became honorary grandparents and great grandparents to Kayla Ridings, Bobby Stief, and Hannah Stief who shared their lives on their acreages across the street from each other. She is also survived by friends James Lynch and Jason Stief, who started working for Lowell when young, and who became friends for life, and by Jane Newman, Tammy Stief and many other dear friends.
Kay is preceded in death by her parents, her brother Ronald E. Wikoff and his wife Elaine, and by her husband of 49 years, Lowell, who passed away on December 7, 2024.
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