Cheryl Anne Godlove Reves was gathered unto God on Friday, November 14th, at her home on Spring Creek Road, surrounded by her beloved fiancée Harold Armstrong, family, friends and Pottawatomie County Emergency personnel. She was born February 6th, 1948 the youngest child of Sherman Roosevelt and Cheryl Margaret Seymour Godlove of rural Westmoreland. Anne lived on the family farm with her parents and siblings Sherman Keith Godlove, Muriel Patricia Godlove, and Elizabeth “Jo” Godlove. She spent a lot of time with her brother affectionately known as “Bub” as he was a confirmed bachelor and stayed on the family farm all his life.
Anne was educated in the Westmoreland school system and graduated from Westmoreland Rural High School in May of 1966. A love of music was one of Anne’s passions and she was involved in dance and become a lifelong piano player after taking lessons at Cree Brothers funeral home where the undertaker’s dog often lay under the piano bench and growled at her. She was involved with many other organizations and activities during her school years and gained many lifelong friendships among her classmates.
On September 22nd, of 1966 she married Dale Reves and they made their home on a farm in rural Fostoria, Kansas. The following year on March 15th of 1967 they welcomed their only child a son Robert Joseph to the world. They moved to another farm on Spring Creek Road a move of one mile and spent their time farming and pursuing jobs off the farm to supplement their income. Anne was a wonderful mother and homemaker and enjoyed pursuits as far ranging as mushroom hunting to raising the to raising the broilers for the Godlove’s annual chicken butchering after her mother passed. She encouraged an early love of nature in her son and they spent hours looking for fossils on Ostergard road. She and Dale later divorced.
In her working life Anne did clerical work for the Pottawatomie County ASCS office and became well known to area farm families. She then took a job with the Pottawatomie County Treasurers office working for Faye Pittinger a member of her extended family. Having political aspirations of her own Anne ran a successful campaign for Register of Deeds unseating Erwin Scott and served a term in that office. In the next election cycle, she decided to run for County Treasurer and was defeated in that race. She then moved on to Kansas State University and worked early on for the Department of Anthropology, Sociology, and Social Work. Her next move was to the College of Human Ecology and her final disposition there was an Army School Agent Teen Training Grant that set up youth social programming across the United States and abroad. While working at K-State Anne proceeded to take classes to supplement some college credit she had already obtained earning a Bachelor’s in Elementary Education with honors. Before her retirement Anne used this opportunity to substitute teach as well as becoming an instructor and trainer for the Highland Community College branch in Wamego, Ks.
Socially Anne was very active in her community and abroad. She was a leader of her son’s Cloverleaf 4-H club in Fostoria, Kansas and inspired many area youth in this endeavor. She was also a member of the Fostoria Extension Homemakers Unit with many area friends and neighbors. During her son’s high school years, she extended her love of working with area youth from 4-H to FFA becoming a Charter Member of the Westmoreland FFA Alumni and later the Rock Creek FFA Alumni. She was an officer several times for the Westmoreland High School Alumni Association and along with her son Rob and Brenda Heptig helped publish an all-high school almanac and had trophy cases built to display the honors accorded her alma mater. She was a member of Eastern Star coming from a family with strong Masonic ties and enjoyed seeing her son elected as the last Worthy Patron of the Manhattan Chapter as well as serving in a number of positions in her own right. She was a township officer for Rock Creek working to maintain roads and cemeteries in that township; in later years this led her to serving on the Antioch cemetery board in rural Frankfort. She was a life member of the Onaga Historical Society. A member of the Arthur Barrett Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and Mrs. John A. Logan Tent #6 of the Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War. As a “Red Hatter” in the “Flinthills Floozies” Anne had a great deal of fun with her fellow floozies! She was a member of the United Methodist Church and a long-time choir, pianist, and memorials committee member while in attendance.
Anne’s greatest joy lay in her family and that of her fiancée Harold Armstrong. She was a wonderful cook and many recipes handed down from her mother and elder family members made the tables groan at holidays and family events. She rejoiced when her son married his wife Lesa Ann Hugunin on June 8th, 1991 and organized a blue grass band and hog roast for their wedding. She gloried in spending time with her grandson’s Sheridan Graden and Morgan Blue Reves and mourned the loss of her granddaughter Mariahann Fairelight Reves due to a diaphragmatic hernia. She loved spending time with family and friends and for a number of years organized the Godlove family reunion. Traveling was also a passion and she went on several adventures with Harold and his extended family including a trip to the Country Music Hall of Fame where Harold’s image appears in the noted artist Thomas Hart Benton’s, “The Birth of Country Music” mural. She also went on a memorable trip to Isreal with tour guide former schoolmate Clark Tanner and several area residents.
In passing Anne was preceded in death by her parents, her siblings and their spouses, and her infant granddaughter Mariah. She leaves to mourn her son Robert and his wife Lesa and their children Sheridan and Morgan of rural Olsburg. Her fiancée Harold of the home in rural Frankfort. Also, Harold’s immediate family, Linda and Carl Dressman and family and Donnie and Jessie Armstrong and family respectively of Frankfort; Kim and Bob Seleska and family of Blue Rapids; Justin and Evangeline Armstrong and family of rural Frankfort; as well as Beverly and Corey Grosdidier and family of Omaha, Nebraska.
Respect calls are 5-7 p.m. Thursday the 20th at the Campanella Stewart Funeral Home in Wamego, Kansas. Funeral Services at Trinity Baptist Church of Wamego at 10:30 a.m. Friday the 21st with a luncheon and committal service to follow at the Westmoreland City Cemetery in Westmoreland, Kansas at 2 p.m. In lieu of flowers the family asks for memorial contributions to the Ronald McDonald House in Kansas City. With her granddaughter’s death this was a cause very near and dear to Anne’s heart.