FORT WORTH, Texas - Arless Neomi Moser Eilerts passed away Feb. 15, 2012, at Baylor All-Saints Medical Center, Fort Worth, Texas.

She was born Oct. 5, 1933, in Woodward County, Okla., to Guy McClellan and Mabel May Watkins Moser.

The family moved from Woodward to Pawnee County in 1943, where Guy was a farmer and Mabel was a schoolteacher and Arless attended grade school in a one-room schoolhouse. The family moved to Stillwater in the late 1940s. Arless graduated from Stillwater High School in 1950. She attended Oklahoma A & M University from 1950 to 1954, receiving a Bachelors degree in secondary education. Arless taught English and speech at Meade High School in Kansas from 1952 to 1956. In 1956, she moved to Turon, Kan. and taught English and speech at Turon High School, where she met her future husband, Donald Dean Eilerts. He taught eighth grade at Turon Grade School and was also a seventh and eighth-grade boys' athletics coach.

Arless and Dean were married July 5, 1957, in Clovis, NM. He passed away Dec. 19, 1996.

Arless finished her M.S. degree at KSTC Emporia in 1960 and in Sept. of 1961 began teaching English, journalism, and other courses at Hutchinson Junior College (later Hutchinson Community College). In 1980, she completed an Ed.D. in higher education administration at Oklahoma State University. She remained on the HCC faculty until 1985, when she became Director of Public Information, retiring in 1996 as Associate Dean of Resources, Research and Information. She moved to Plano, Texas in 2005 to live with her daughter, Toni.

She is survived by: two children, a daughter, Toni Lynn Eilerts; and a son, Brent Dean and his wife Dzhamilya Eilerts. Toni is currently a senior staff Geologist at Range Resources Corporation, Fort Worth, Texas. Brent is currently team leader, advanced production systems at Chevron Energy Technology Co. in Houston, Texas. Arless was a dedicated teacher and mentor to younger faculty members. Education of others was a primary focus throughout her professional career. She was also an elder and Sunday school teacher for many years at Park Place Christian Church in Hutchinson. Her other passions included genealogy, reading, floral arranging and solving word puzzles. She was a lifelong student of many subjects.

Funeral service will be 2 p.m. Monday, Feb. 20, 2012, at Park Place Christian Church, with Reverend Dr. Kim Biery and Dr. Haines Laird officiating. Burial will be in the Penwell-Gabel Cemetery and Mausoleum, Hutchinson. Visitation will be from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday and 9 to 11 a.m. Monday at Elliott Mortuary, Hutchinson.

Memorials gifts may be made to the Hutchinson Community College Endowment Association or the church, in care of the mortuary.