Cordelia Green Drumm’s last years were spent living at the St. Regis Hotel, one of Kansas City’s first apartment hotels. She appears to have been very active until the very last years of her long life. At age 88, she took a cruise from New York to Sweden and France, and letters from 1932 and 1934 show she sent money for Christmas gifts for the boys at Drumm Farm.

A year before Cordelia’s death in 1936, she sold her Liberty heirlooms for $50. She was the last living member of Clay Seminary Class of 1862. She left money to her two nieces, her long-time chauffer, St. Luke’s Hospital, and St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, but most of what remained went to Drumm Farm for Children. Brian Burnes writes in The Andrew Drumm Legacy: A Cattleman’s Promise to Children, Cordelia’s last words, at age 92, according to her lawyer, were to repeat the directions included in the will of her husband: that the bulk of their estate be conveyed to the boys’ home, which she had helped create and watch grow. She added that it was giving to many, not otherwise provided for, an education and opportunity for service in life. Cordelia also requested that oil portraits of her and her husband be displayed at Drumm Farm, where they are both visible still today.