Rebecca "Becky" Lynn VanHorn Eilts, age 50, of Osawatomie, Kansas died Tuesday, March 26 2002, at the University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas after a sudden illness.

Becky was born July 27, 1951, in Garnett, Kansas. She was the youngest of three children born to Vernon Dale and Mary Christine Matherly VanHorn.

She grew up in Osawatomie and graduated from the Osawatomie High School in the Class of 1969. She then attended computer school at Kansas City, Missouri, and was employed in Topeka in the computer field for a short time.

Becky was married in October of 1970 in Osawatomie To William Walter Eilts, Sr. They moved to Kankakee Illinois after the wedding, and later moved to Bourbonnais, Illinois where they had two children, William Jr in 1980. and Jennifer Lynn in 1984. The couple divorced in 1992.

The family moved to Osawatomie in 1992. Family was very important to Becky. She especially enjoyed playing with her grandson.

She was preceded in death by her father, Vernon. She is survived by one son William Walter "BJ" Eilts, Jr, and one daughter Jennifer Lynn Eilts both of Osawatomie; her mother Mary VanHorn of Osawatomie; two sisters Judith Kay Scheinert of Pauldon, Arizona and Linda Lee Pennock of Lane, Kansas; one grandson Carson Eilts of Osawatomie; many nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.