Aileen Mallory

Aileen Carlile Mallory, 89, died Feb. 22 at Hospice. She was born to Walter and Clara Moe Carlile in Jamestown, KS on Feb. 26, 1917.

She married Raymond Williams in 1936. They divorced. She married Paul Mallory in 1946. He predeceased her in death in 1990. She is survived by one daughter, Shirley Wilson and her husband Bob; Topeka, one stepdaughter, Normal Mallory Rutledge, and her husband Jim, Loveland, Colorado, one grandson, Mike Wilson and his wife Maria, Topeka, three granddaughters, Patty Burkholder and her husband Jerry, Topeka, Anna Marie Nicolet and her husband, Jon Wichita, and Colleen Brink and her husband Randy, Wichita, and three step-grandsons, Keith Rutledge and his wife Kathy, Irwin, Pennsylvania, Kenny Rutledgte and his wife Joyce, Arvada colorado, and Kellly Rutledge and his wife Ruth, Groomfield, Colorado. She had ten great-grandchildren, Jesse, Jebel and Josh Wilson, Brandy and Megan Burkholder, Jacob and Nichole Nicolet, and Jessica, Kevin and David Brink, and two step great-grandsons, Jacob and Matthew Rutledge. Also surviving are two sisters, Betty Jean Mage and Joan McMillan and her husband Kenneth, all from Vancouver, Washington.

The daughter of a small town newspaper publisher, Aileen always wanted to be a writer. She achieved this goal, working first as an assistant editor on Capper's Farmer and then as Public Infomation Chief for the Health Education Division of the State Department of Health and Environment. After her retirement in 1972, she did extensive free-lance writing, working up until her late 80's on various projects, including a regular devotional column in Capper's Weekly. She was active in Presswomen, winning numerous writing awards, Penwomen Kansas Authors, and Women in Communications