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Lincoln Robinson
CEDAR VALE - Lincoln Fay Robinson, 91, of Cedar Vale, died Nov. 30, 2000, in Tulsa.
Cremation has taken place. Burial of his ashes will be at 2 p.m Saturday in Ozro Falls Cemetery
near Hewins. Wheeler Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
A memorial has been established with Cedar Vale Community Hospital.
Robinson was born April 14, 1909, in Newton, Mass., to Ethel Fay and Thomas P. Robinson. He was raised in the Boston area and graduated from high school in Hingham, Mass. He graduated from Harvard University in 1930.
On Nov. 25, 1930, he married May Borroum in Cedar Vale. She died Jan. 29, 1982.
Robinson lived in New York and Boston before moving to the Cedar Vale area in 1940 to become a rancher. He was active in community affairs and worked at the Cedar Vale museum and library. A painter, he wrote several children's books.
Survivors include a son, Jim Robinson, Cincinnati, Ohio; a daughter, Margaret Robinson Kennedy, Chicago; a brother, Jack Robinson, Bartlett, Ill.; five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
A daughter, Elizabeth Ann Stangl, died in 1989.
Cora Schimmel
GEUDA SPRINGS - Cora Opal Schimmel, 94, of Geuda Springs, died Dec. 2, 2000, at Medicalodge North Health Care Unit in Arkansas City.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday in Forrest Hill Cemetery
near Ashton.
A memorial has been established with Geuda Springs Activities Center. Contributions may be made through Rindt-Erdman Funeral Home.
Schimmel was born Oct. 14, 1906, in Faxon, Oklahoma Territory, to Ida (Cooper) and Wilbert Earl Peters. She was raised and educated in Geuda Springs and Arkansas City.
On March 10, 1928, she married Claude F. Schimmel in Wellington, and they made their home in Geuda Springs.
Schimmel worked as a cook for Geuda Springs schools, Rodeo Meats Co. and Medicalodge East. She also worked at Winfield State Hospital and Training Center as an aide and later at Pershing Elementary School in Arkansas City as a foster grandparent.
Her husband died in 1975.
Survivors include three sons, John Schimmel and Dwaine Schimmel, both of Arkansas City, and Keith Schimmel, Dallas; a sister, Maxine Reidlinger, Arkansas City; eight grandchildren, two stepgrandchildren, seven great-grandchildren, five stepgreat-grandchildren, two great-great-grandchildren and two stepgreat-great-grandchildren.
Paul Walker
CLAREMORE, Okla. - Paul Edward Walker, 85, of Claremore, died Nov. 30, 2000.
Services were at 1 p.m. Dec. 4 in Chapel of the Garden at Rice Funeral Service. Burial was at 4 p.m. in Woodland Cemetery, Cleveland, Okla.
Walker was born June 30, 1915, in Pattonsburg, Mo., to Lula Lee (Summers) and Thomas William Walker. He was educated in Pattonsburg, then began to work with his sister and brother-in-law in their dry cleaning business.
On March 26, 1938, he married Mildred Mahan in McPherson. They lived in McPherson for two years, then moved to Wichita where he worked in the aircraft industry during the war. After the war they bought a dry cleaning business in Herington and moved there.
In the mid-1970s they moved to Cleveland, Okla. Walker began working in a lumberyard until turning to a full-time career in house building.
Since December 1992 the Walkers had lived in Claremore. The last several months he was in Claremore Nursing Home where he was known to all as "Walker Texas Ranger."
Survivors include his wife, Mildred Walker, Claremore, Okla.; three children, Paul Walker, Wichita, Ray Walker, Winfield, and Debby Bein, Rockwall, Texas; eight grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
Paul Boyer
LONGTON - Paul A. Boyer, 78, formerly of Wichita and Towanda, died Dec. 2, 2000, at the home of his caregiver, Ralph Jones, northeast of Longton.
Private services will be held. Zimmerman Funeral Home of Howard is in charge of arrangements.
Boyer was born Oct. 4, 1922, in Kingman, to Ella Amelia (Koppisch) and Edward Melvin Boyer. He attended school in the Kingman area.
In 1941 Boyer entered the United States Navy and served during World War II. He was honorably discharged in 1945.
A self-employed plumber in the Wichita and Towanda area during most of his life, he had lived in the Longton community for several years.
Survivors include his daughters, Paula Carter, Wichita, Pamela Horn, Topeka, and Sandra Campbell, address not given; a brother, Marvin Robert Boyer, Wichita; and three grandchildren.
Norman Clodfelter
GREAT FALLS, Mont. - Norman C. Clodfelter, 81, of Great Falls, formerly of Winfield, died Nov. 22, 2000, of lung cancer.
Memorial services were held Nov. 27 at Croxford & Sons Funeral Home. Burial of the cremains followed at Highland Cemetery
with military honors.
Clodfelter was born July 5, 1919, in Wichita, to Hazle and Carson Jacob Clodfelter. The family settled in Winfield.
During World War II he served in the U.S. Army and received many medals for being an excellent rifleman. He served in the European theater, was wounded in Germany and returned to Winfield in 1945 with an honorable discharge and a Purple Heart.
In 1947 he married Gladys Martin.
Clodfelter worked in oil fields and later operated heavy equipment in construction of roads and air bases. For 10 years he worked in several states while employed by Peter Kiewit & Sons. He then moved to Great Falls where he worked at Malstrom Air Force Base until retiring in 1979.
Survivors include his wife, Gladys Clodfelter, Great Falls; a daughter, Teresa Forrest, Conrad, Mont.; a granddaughter, and a great-grandson.
Samantha Price
ATLANTA - Samantha Ann Price, 16, of Atlanta, died Dec. 2, 2000, in Wichita as the result of an automobile accident.
Services will be at 3 p.m. Wednesday at the Douglass First Christian Church. The Rev. Clif Mucci will officiate. Burial will be in Douglass Cemetery.
Friends may call at Hilyard-Smith Funeral Home in Douglass until 8 tonight and from 9 a.m. to noon Wednesday.
A memorial has been established with the Douglass High School Athletic Scholarship Fund.
Samantha was born June 5, 1984, in El Dorado, to Kathy (McClure) and Pat Price. She was a student at Douglass High School and a member of Students with a Purpose.
Survivors include her parents, Pat and Kathy Price, her brother, Greg Price, her grandmother, Bonnie Price, and her great-grandmother, Ida Brown, all of Atlanta.
Marie Allred
Marie Allred, 76, of Winfield, died Dec. 5, 2000, at William Newton Hospital.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Miles Funeral Service. Burial will be in Highland Cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home until 9 tonight and until service time Thursday.
Memorials have been established with Hospice Inc. and Meals on Wheels. Contributions may be made through the funeral home.
Allred was born Aug. 6, 1924, in Dexter, to Helen Lehmann Hoyt Akers and William "Bill" Hoyt. Her childhood was spent in Dexter. In 1937 the family moved to Winfield.
On June 7, 1941, she married William "Bill" Allred in Cassville, Mo., and they lived in Winfield. She graduated from Winfield High School in 1942.
A homemaker, she stayed home to raise her children and provided day care for other families. She served as the secretary for Allred Implement and Pump Service in Winfield from 1972 to 1987 and retired when the business closed.
Allred was baptized in the First Christian Church of Dexter and later moved her membership to the First Christian Church in Winfield.
Survivors include her husband, Bill Allred, a son, Gary Allred, and two grandchildren, all of Winfield.
A son, Richard Allred, preceded her in death.
Ray Struble
WELLINGTON - Ray C. Struble, 82, of Wellington, died Dec. 4, 2000.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday at the Church of the Nazarene. Burial will be in Bethany Cemetery
at Perth.
Memorial contributions to Wellington Place may be made through Frank Funeral Home.
Struble was a retired car inspector for Santa Fe Railroad.
Survivors include three daughters, Karen Anderson, Wellington, Louise Widick, Woodward, Okla., and Gloria Daniels, Graybull, Wyo.; two sons, Clinton Struble and Randy Struble, both of Wellington; two sisters, Pauline Cink, Caldwell, and Esther Hutchinson, Arkansas City; a brother, Lloyd Struble, Caldwell; 15 grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren.
Charles Buchele
MOLINE - Charles "Ned" Buchele, 94, longtime resident of Moline, died Dec. 5, 2000, at St. John's Regional Medical Center in Joplin, Mo.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Moline United Methodist Church. The Rev. Gary Parsons will officiate. Burial will be in Greenlawn Cemetery
at Grenola.
Memorials have been established with the Moline United Methodist Church and the American Cancer Society. Contributions may be made through Zimmerman Funeral Home.
Buchele was born June 24, 1906, in Lafayette, Ind., to Myrtle (Rittenour) and Charles Buchele. His mother died when he was two. In 1910 he came to Kansas and lived with his aunts until his father married Bessie Fisher.
Buchele graduated from Cedar Vale High School in 1923 and attended Kansas State University in Manhattan. He was employed by the National Toy Co. in Kansas City, Mo., for a few years.
On Feb. 15, 1929, he married Thelma Grace Noland in Cedar Vale. He began farming east of Cedar Vale in 1929 and moved his family to a farm near Moline in 1939. They moved to a farm near Grenola in 1943. After his wife's death on Nov. 2, 1956, he continued to farm near Grenola before moving to Moline in 1966.
On July 24, 1966, he married Ina (Oliver) Julian in Burlington, and they made their home in Moline. He retired from farming in 1974 and remained a resident of Moline until moving to Pleasant Valley Manor in Sedan in 1998. His wife died Feb. 25, 1998.
Buchele served for many years on the Elk County Soil Conservation Board and the Elk County Council on Aging. He was a longtime member of the Moline United Methodist Church and had served as chairman of the trustees.
Survivors include two sons, Keith Buchele, Coffeyville, and Marvin Buchele, Winfield; his half-brothers, Luther Buchele, Ann Arbor, Mich., and Dr. Wesley Buchele, Ames, Iowa; three grandchildren, four stepgrandchildren, two great-grandchildren and four stepgreat-grandchildren.
