Eleanor Whitcombe
President
Eleanor's grandmother sat on the founding board. She has led Marmaton Hall since 2008 and still pours the parlor coffee on Sundays.
Our people
Meet our team
The people who keep a seventy-six-year promise.
Our team
The people of Marmaton Hall
Rachel Dunlap, RN
Director of Nursing
Rachel trained at Fort Scott Community College and has led nursing on the bluff for sixteen years.
Dr. Samuel Okafor
Medical Director
A family physician in Bourbon County for twenty years. He sees residents in the campus clinic three mornings a week.
Martha Kellerman
Director of Residency
Martha gives most tours and knows the history of every family who's ever lived here. Ask her about the 1951 flood.
Rev. James Holloway
Chaplain
Pastor Holloway leads Sunday vespers and visits the Health Center every morning.
Lupe Herrera
Dining Director
Lupe has run the Hargrave kitchen for nineteen years. The pie recipes go back to 1949.
Angela Price, LMSW
Social Worker
Angela helps families through moves between levels of care, KanCare and VA paperwork, and the hard talks.
Thomas Reed
Business Office Manager
Thomas answers every billing question in plain English and puts it in writing.
Grace Whitfield
Life Enrichment Director
Grace runs the genealogy club, the hymn sing and the Good Ol' Days float.
Marcus Bell
Facilities Director
Marcus keeps a seventy-six-year-old limestone house warm, dry and safe.
Nadia Cho, PT
Therapy Director
Nadia leads rehab in the Bluff Health Center and has most patients home within a month.
Sample family reviews
Letters from our families
My grandmother lived in Hargrave House in 1962. My mother lived in the east wing. I moved into a cottage last spring. The parlor smells exactly the same.
When Daddy moved to Cornerstone House, Mama walked over every morning with his newspaper. He couldn't read it anymore. She read it to him.
I ran the hardware store downtown for forty years. Half the people here bought their first hammer from me.
Our savings ran out after Mother's long illness. The benevolence fund meant she never had to leave.
My hip rehab was in the Health Center and my sister walked up from her cottage every afternoon.
They explained the contract at the parlor table and gave it to us in writing. No rush at all.
The nurses call us in Kansas City after every care meeting. We always know how Dad is.
I found my great-grandfather's homestead papers in the genealogy room. Took me eighty-four years.
Sunday fried chicken, then vespers, then a nap on the porch. I've had worse Sundays.
They put my husband and me in the same room in the Health Center so we wouldn't spend a night apart.
Mama's last days were in the Health Center, with the chaplain and the staff singing her favorite hymns. It was peaceful.
The parlor's open. Come on in.
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