Charlotte “C.C.” Cecelia Giles, 88 of Cummings, KS, passed away unexpectedly on Friday, February 14, 2020, due to an automotive accident.

A parish prayer service will be 1:00 PM, Saturday, February 22, 2020 at the Becker-Dyer-Stanton Funeral Home, Atchison, KS with Fr. Jeremy Heppler, OSB as celebrant.  The family will receive friends following the service until 4:00 PM at the funeral home.  Memorials are suggested to the Disabled American Veterans or American Diabetes Association and may be sent in care of the funeral home.  Online condolences may be left at www.beckerdyer.com.

C.C. was born July 24, 1931 in Atchison, KS, the daughter of Ernest and Charlotte (Graves) Hegarty.  She attended Mount Saint Scholastic Academy graduating in 1949.  C.C. worked at Dairy Queen, KPL, Snowden-Mize Drug, Montgomery Ward, The Book Station, Elegance Revisited, Snow Creek, Doodlebugs Book Store and Sacred Heart Thrift Store.  She was a member of Sacred Heart Catholic Church and then St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, Nortonville, KS.  C.C. served as an officer for the Sacred Heart Altar Society, Parish Council and PTA.  She enjoyed playing cards and traveling.

C.C. married William “Bill” A. Giles on September 7, 1953 at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, Atchison, KS.  He also passed unexpectedly on Friday, February 14, 2020 due to the accident.  They had been married for sixty-six years.  Survivors include a son David Giles, Cummings, KS, three daughters, Eileen (Eddie) Frad, Atchison, KS, Mary Jeanne Bond (Darryl Kuntz), Lancaster, KS, Barbara Baker, Atchison, KS, a sister Dwyn Belden-Whitmill, Tomball, TX, eleven grandchildren, three step grandchildren, thirty-four great grandchildren, twelve step great grandchildren and four great great grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents, a son Richard Giles, three brothers, Robert, William and E.J. Hegarty, two sisters, Mary Mason and Ruth Young, one grandchild and one great grandchild.