Wanda Bethel Warnow daughter of Albert and Nancy Hubbard was born November 8, 1917, in Minneapolis, Kansas. Wanda passed peacefully on June 23, 2012, at the Cloud County Medical Center in Concordia, Kansas. She was 94 years old.

Wanda, the youngest of 9 children, who grew up on a farm near Minneapolis, Kansas, has always enjoyed being part of a large family. Wanda went to beauty school at a young age and owned her own beauty shop in Bennington, Kansas, by the time she was 18. Wanda was united in marriage to Ralph Leroy Warnow of Salina, Kansas, on November 8, 1935, at the Methodist parsonage in Minneapolis. Ralph and Wanda settled into a life of farming five miles north of Minneapolis in 1951, until moving to Minneapolis in 1987. Wanda also worked as a nurse's aide at the hospital in Minneapolis; she was a member of the United Methodist Church; she loved to entertain and cook; she was an avid seamstress who designed and made most of her daughters' clothing; she belonged to a card club; and was a former member of the Eastern Star.

Wanda was preceded in death by her husband, Ralph Warnow; her granddaughter, Josie Freeman; and her siblings Darrel Hubbard, Doris Merryfield, Reva Struthers, Faye Haddock, Ethel Hamilton, Florence Davis Thompson, Floyd Hubbard, and John Hubbard.

Survivors include two daughters; Kaye Shoulders of Oklahoma City, and Constance Laughlin of Redding, CA; 3 grandchildren; 2 step-grandchildren; 7 great grandchildren; and 4 step-great grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held Friday, June 28, 2012, at 11:00 a.m., at the Wilson Family Funeral Home in Minneapolis, with Pastors Michele McHenry and April Wegehaupt officiating. Visitation will be from 2 P.M. to 8 P.M. Thursday at the funeral home where the family will receive friends from 6 P.M. to 8 P.M. Burial will be in Highland Cemetery, Minneapolis. The family suggests memorials to the First United Methodist Church of Minneapolis.