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Lessie Barnes
Services for Lessie Dora Barnes, 89, who died March 20, 1999, were held at 2 p.m. March 24 at the Evangelical Free Church. The Revs. John B. Morgan and Steven Janschek officiated. Burial was in Highland Cemetery.
Kathy Waite sang "Amazing Grace" and "How Great Thou Art." Sara Weinert was the organist.
Honorary casket bearers were Virgil Jenkins and Keith Wood. Casket bearers were Marty Jenkins, Carl, Gerald, Harold and Mike Reynolds and Bill Saltz.
A memorial has been established with the Evangelical Free Church.
Miles Funeral Service was in charge of arrangements.
Wilson McAlister
GRENOLA - Wilson David McAlister, 74, of Grenola, died March 24, 1999, at his residence.
Services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at Wheeler Funeral Home in Cedar Vale. The Rev. Dois Nix will officiate. Burial will be in North Cedar Creek Cemetery, north of Cedar Vale.
A memorial has been established with Hospice Inc. Contributions can be made through the funeral home.
McAlister was born Dec. 7, 1924, in Chautauqua County to Ralph W. and Bessie Violet (Storms) McAlister.
On Feb. 25, 1949, he married E. Pauline Burkett in Cedar Vale. She died April 29, 1991.
McAlister was a farmer and rancher north of Cedar Vale most of his life.
Survivors include a son, Delbert McAlister, Atlanta; a daughter, Norma McAlister, Tulsa, Okla.; his mother, Bessie McAlister, Moline; a friend and companion, Marie Malone, Grenola; a brother, Melvin McAlister, Moline; and six sisters, Phyllis Hawkins, Grenola, Darlene Stephenson, Sedan, Mary Ann Osborn, Garfield, Ark., Karen Hey, Independence, Helen Yocham, Moline, and Wanda McAlister, Derby.
James Thurber
Services for James R. ÒJimÓ Thurber, 69, who died March 22, 1999, were held at 2 p.m. March 25 at Millington Street Baptist Church. The Rev. K.B. Murray officiated. Burial was in Highland Cemetery.
Deborah Badley sang ÒBeulah LandÓ and ÒIn the Garden.Ó Pianist was Paula Murray. Organist was Ruth Caskey.
Honorary casket bearers were Ron Bauer, Jerry Calvin, Leonard Richardson and Don Sandborn.
Casket bearers were Rodger Gregory, Bob Helsel, Larry Kelley, Don Kimsey, Russ Larson, Don Sherrard, Gene Snell and Chuck Wright.
A memorial has been established with Millington Street Baptist Church.
Miles Funeral Service was in charge of arrangements.
Lawrence Lewis
Services for Lawrence Lewis, 84, who died March 22, 1999, were held at 2 p.m. March 25 in Highland Cemetery. The Rev. Warren Smith officiated. Casket bearers were family members.
A memorial has been established with the Cumbernauld Village Van and Employee Fund.
Swisher-Taylor & Morris Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
James Burns
HOWARD - James Hugh Burns, 74, of Howard, died March 23, 1999, at his home.
Memorial services were held at 2 p.m. March 26 in Wyuka Cemetery
in Nebraska City, Neb. The Rev. Ted D. Davis officiated. Zimmerman Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
Burns was born Feb. 28, 1925, near Percival, Iowa, to Lewis C. and Nellie Arsula (Parker) Burns. After graduating from high school in Percival, he enlisted in the United States Navy. During World War II he served as a hospital apprentice second class, commonly known as a Òmedic.Ó
He then was employed in farm work near Percival and also operated trucks and machinery for a local grain elevator. He was a volunteer worker at the rodeo in Sidney, Iowa, for many years.
In 1982 he moved to Howard where he lived with his niece, Kathy Davis, and her family. He had been employed by Ted Davis as a mechanic for farm equipment.
Burns was a former member of the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Survivors include a brother, Elmer Burns, Kelso, Wash.; his niece, Kathy Davis, Howard, and several other nieces and nephews.
Norma Means
Services for Norma Means, 97, who died March 21, 1999, were held at 10:30 a.m. March 25 at the First Presbyterian Church. The Revs. Steven Souther and Diane Massey officiated. Burial was in Highland Cemetery.
June Vasey was the organist. Means' great-grandson, Chris Galliart, performed ÒBreathe on Me, Breath of GodÓ and ÒMorning Has Broken.Ó The congregation sang ÒAmazing Grace."
Dr. John P. Hantla, Means' nephew, and Dr. Mark Weinert, her grandson, shared memories of Means.
Casket bearers were John Mark Shelley, Jim Franksen, Keith Tillotson, Jeff Means, Jim Gedwillo and Dan Berg.
Swisher-Taylor & Morris Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
Laura Bradbury
The Rev. Laura E. Bradbury, 98, retired United Methodist Church pastor, died March 28, 1999, at Winfield Rest Haven.
Services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Miles Funeral Service. Burial will be in Highland Cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday.
Memorials have been established with the Revs. Leo and Laura Bradbury scholarship funds at Southwestern College. Contributions can be made through the college or funeral home.
Bradbury was born Dec. 12, 1900, on a farm in Sioux County, Iowa, to William T. and Augusta (Paulson) Jensen. When she was two, the family moved to northern Oklahoma and lived in the Kildare area south of Newkirk.
A 1920 graduate of Newkirk High School, she graduated from Southwestern College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1924. She taught at Benton's high school for a year.
On Aug. 19, 1925, she married the Rev. E. Leo Bradbury in Kildare. They served Kansas churches for 40 years in Byers, Bloom, Bloomington, Cleveland, Murdock, Mitchell, Galva, Belpre, Cassoday, Spivey, Clifton, Courtland, Linn, LeRoy, Grenola, Culver and Potwin.
Laura Bradbury also taught school in several of those communities. In 1956 she was named the first woman to be an active voting member of the Kansas East Conference of the United Methodist Church. She retired from active ministry in 1968.
Her husband died Jan. 12, 1978.
She resided at Friendly Acres Retirement Center in Newton before moving to Winfield Rest Haven in February 1994.
She was a member of the Kansas Conference of the United Methodist Church and affiliated with the International Association of Women Ministers.
Survivors include three daughters, Neva Woerner, Greeley, Colo., Mona Booth, Tecumseh, and Wanda Donley, Rock; 11 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
Betty Baker
Betty Ann Baker, 76, formerly of 1009 E. Sixth, Winfield, died March 26, 1999, at Good Samaritan Village.
Private services will be held later. Miles Funeral Service is in charge of arrangements.
Baker was born Dec. 17, 1922, in Adams County, Pa., to Hobson Dewey and Pauline Esther (Worley) Crouse. She was educated in Maryland schools and graduated in 1940 from Taneytown (Md.) High School.
She received her nursing education at the Church Home and Hospital in Baltimore, Md., and graduated as a registered nurse in 1947.
She resided in Baltimore from 1944 to 1947, when she moved to Alamosa, Colo., and worked as a nurse. In 1955 she moved to Gettysburg, Pa., where she married Charles A. Baker on June 19, 1956. They moved to Monte Vista, Colo., in 1959.
The Bakers moved to Winfield in 1965. She began working as a nurse at William Newton Memorial Hospital in 1966 and retired in 1985.
Her husband died April 22, 1997.
Survivors include a son, Craig Albert Baker, Sioux City, Iowa; a daughter, Bryce Elaine Davis, Highland, Calif.; seven brothers, Fred O. Crouse, Littlestown, Pa., Earl A. Crouse, Charles Town, W.Va., Roger L. Crouse, Denver, and Ned D. Crouse, Ross H. Crouse, Ted L. Crouse and Tim F. Crouse, all of Gettysburg, Pa.; three sisters, Rita Warner, Rhoda Conover, and Irene L. Lawrence, all of Gettysburg; and three grandchildren.
Roy Cheek
BELLE PLAINE - Roy Charles Cheek, 91, of Belle Plaine, died March 25, 1999, at Via Christi Regional Medical Center- St. Joseph Campus in Wichita.
Services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Belle Plaine United Methodist Church. The Revs. Andy Torres and Lauerence Hastings will officiate. Burial will be in Belle Plaine Cemetery.
Friends may call at Hatfield-Smith Funeral Home until 8 tonight and between 10 a.m. and noon Tuesday.
Cheek was born April 11, 1907, in Belle Plaine. A veteran of the U.S. Navy, he was the retired owner of Roy's Retail Drug.
He was a member of the American Legion and the Masons.
Survivors include a brother, Gordon Cheek, Albuquerque, N.M.; three nephews and three nieces.
Lucille Jones
ARKANSAS CITY - Lucille Jones, 78, of Arkansas City, died March 27, 1999, at South Central Kansas Regional Medical Center.
Services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Rindt-Erdman Funeral Home. Loren Grimes will officiate. Burial will be in Newkirk City Cemetery.
A memorial has been established with the American Cancer Society. Contributions can be made through the funeral home.
Jones was born July 15, 1920, in Arkansas City, to Milton and Ethel (Bagby) Loyd. She was raised and educated in Arkansas City.
On Oct. 12, 1939, she married Ted Jones in Wellington. They had mostly lived in the Arkansas City area since their marriage.
Jones was a homemaker and worked at the Pamona Tile Co. at Strother Field for 10 years.
She was a member of Central Christian Church.
Survivors include her husband, Ted Jones, Arkansas City; a son, Gary Jones, and a daughter, Karen Fox, both of Oklahoma City; three sisters, Mary Crouse, Apache Junction, Ariz., Patti Bebout, Page, Ariz., and Barbara Martin, Claremore, Okla.; five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.