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Lloyd Negrete
TOPEKA – Lloyd “Eulogio” Negrete Jr., 51, of Topeka, died Dec. 26, 2002, in Topeka.
Services were held Monday at Brennan-Mathena Funeral Home. Burial was in Memorial Park Cemetery. Casket bearers were Dave Serrault, Alan Figgs, Mike Franklin, Miguel Negrete, Pete Diaz and Lupe Diaz.
Negrete was born Oct. 24, 1951, in Winfield, to Toni (Jurado) and Lloyd Negrete Sr. He attended Holy Name School and was a member of Christ the King Catholic Church.
On Sept. 2, 1995, he married Barbara Bolton in Valley Falls.
Negrete was employed by Laird Noller Ford & Figgs Subaru Body Shops.
Survivors include his wife, Barbara Negrete, and a daughter, Nancy Negrete, both of Topeka; his mother, Toni Ramos, Winfield; his father and stepmother, Lloyd Negrete Sr. and Rachel Negrete, Topeka; and his sister, Julie Ann Negrete, and his grandmother, Petra Negrete, both of Winfield.
Sam Keller
Services for Sylvester H. “Sam” Keller were held at 10:30 a.m. Jan. 2, 2003, at the First United Methodist Church. The Rev. Dr. Allen D. Polen officiated. Burial was in Highland Cemetery.
Laura Belle Haines was the organist. Martin Rude sang “Amazing Grace” and “How Great Thou Art.”
Casket bearers were Kate and Ryan Cranston, Susan Dyer, Kris Grazier, Sherry Hilger, Dianne, John, Kevin and Nina Keller and Kim Reeves.
Memorials have been established with Winfield Rest Haven and the First United Methodist Church.
Miles Funeral Service was in charge of arrangements.
Norma Womacks
Norma Jean Womacks, 78, of Winfield, died Dec. 30, 2002, at Winfield Rest Haven.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday at Miles Funeral Service. Burial will be in Highland Cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home from 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday.
A memorial has been established with Harry Hynes Memorial Hospice. Contributions may be made through the funeral home.
Womacks was born June 12, 1924, in Apperson, Okla., to Myrtle (Mann) and Elexis M. Buchan. At the age of three, she moved with her mother and stepfather, Asa F. Stout, to a farm southeast of Winfield and attended Red Valley School through eighth grade. She graduated from Winfield High School in 1941. Following graduation she worked in the office at Kerr's.
In 1942 she married Billie E. Clapper. He was killed in action in September 1943 during World War II.
On March 31, 1945, she married S.C. Womacks in Winfield where they spent their entire married lives. She began working at The State Bank in Winfield in 1957 and retired as head teller in 1988, following 32 years of service. She was also bookkeeper for Rural Water District 2 from 1965 until 2002.
A daughter, Linda Lee Womacks, preceded her in death.
Survivors include her husband, S.C. Womacks, and a son, Donald Rex Womacks, both of Winfield; two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Elisabeth Dicken
WICHITA – Elisabeth Ellen “Betty” Holmes Dicken, 85, retired school teacher, of Wichita, died Dec. 29, 2002, in Wichita.
Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the United Methodist Church in Laverne, Okla. The Revs. Dick Chapman and Diana A. Northcutt will officiate. Burial will be in Laverne Cemetery.
A memorial service will be held at 4 p.m. Monday at the First Church of the Nazarene, 1400 E. Kellogg, Wichita.
Wilson-Little Funeral Home of Purcell, Okla., is in charge of arrangements.
Memorial gifts may be made to the Kansas Aviation Museum, 3350 George Washington Boulevard, Wichita, KS 67210 or to the First Church of the Nazarene, Box Works Mission, 1400 E. Kellogg, Wichita, KS 67210.
Dicken was born Dec. 11, 1917, in Wichita, to Faith Hathaway (Harling) and Jacob Cloud Holmes. When she was eight, the family moved to Laverne, and she graduated from Laverne High School in 1935.
She attended Woodward and Northwest State Teachers College briefly and Kansas State University for a year. There she met and married D. Dean Dicken, now deceased.
They lived in Lincoln and Hays before moving to Wichita in 1957. She received a degree in education from Fort Hays State University and began teaching at Yosemite. She later received a master's degree from Wichita State University. She taught in Wichita public schools until retiring in 1980 and later taught at New Life Christian Academy.
Dicken volunteered in the Kansas Civil Air Patrol for 40 years and retired as a lieutenant colonel in May 2000. She also volunteered at Botanica and was a member of the Wichita Herb Society and the First Church of the Nazarene.
Survivors include three daughters, Faith Deana Sauzek, Wellington, Julia Ellen Rolf, Higginsville, Mo., and Barbara D. Richardson, Wichita; a son, John Mark Dicken, Boston; three sisters, Lois Claire Brown and Mary Alma Sizelove, both of Laverne, and Nancy Josephine Wilson, Neodesha; 10 grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren and eight great-great-grandchildren.
Oscar Morton
UDALL – Oscar Earl Morton, 73, lifelong resident of Udall, died Jan. 1, 2003, at his home.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday at the Udall United Methodist Church. Burial will be in Star Valley Cemetery
east of Udall.
Friends may call at Miles Funeral Service from noon to 5 p.m. Sunday.
Memorials have been established with the Udall United Methodist Church and Harry Hynes Memorial Hospice. Contributions may be made through the funeral home or church.
Morton was born Dec. 19, 1929, to Iva Mae (Shoup) and Earl D. Morton. He was raised on a farm east of Udall and graduated from Udall High School in 1947. He also attended Southwestern College.
On Dec. 30, 1950, he married Maxine G. Abel. She preceded him in death.
On April 23, 1975, he married Linda L. Ferguson, and they made their home east of Udall where he farmed.
Morton was a member of the Udall United Methodist Church and a soil conservation activist. He also served on numerous local boards and committees.
Survivors include his wife, Linda Morton, Udall: four sons, Mark Morton, Mayville, Wis., Thomas Morton, Bartlesville, Robert “Bobby” Morton, McCune, and Don Morton, Udall; three daughters, Rita Perry, Douglas, Wyo., Kimberly Bevan, Valley Center, and Kay Sutphin, Mulvane; a brother, Clyde Morton, and a sister, Cora Mettling, both of Udall; 28 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren.
Ray DeVilbiss
VERMILLION, S.D. – Ray T. DeVilbiss, 83, retired professor emeritus at the University of South Dakota and retired director of the Sioux City (Iowa) Municipal Band, died Dec. 13, 2002, at Edgewood Vista in Sioux Falls, S.D.
Services were held Dec. 20 at St. Agnes Catholic Church in Vermillion.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Ray T. DeVilbiss Band Scholarship Fund with the University of South Dakota Foundation or to the Ray DeVilbiss Memorial Fund of the American Bandmasters Association Foundation.
DeVilbiss was born Jan. 9, 1919, in Chicago, to Irene (Thomure) and A. Bernard DeVilbiss. His early childhood was spent in Chicago and Three Rivers, Mich. He graduated from Marshall (Mo.) High School in 1936.
DeVilbiss earned his bachelor's degree in music education from the University of Missouri at Columbia and began teaching in Unionville, Mo.
On Sept. 24, 1943, he married Margaret Clagett of Sedalia, Mo., in San Francisco.
During World War II he served in the U.S. Navy as a communications officer in the western Pacific. Following the war, he completed his master's degree at the University of Missouri and in 1946 became band director for the public schools in Winterset, Iowa. In 1953, he became director of bands at the University of South Dakota where he remained until his retirement in 1981.
Known nationally as an adjudicator, festival conductor and coordinator, clinician, trumpeter and author, DeVilbiss founded and directed the Upper Midwest Music Camp at USD from 1964-1981. He was elected to the American Bandmasters Association and was recognized in 1974 by School Musician Magazine as one of the 10 most outstanding band conductors in the United States.
Other awards include the South Dakota Federation of Music Clubs Biennial Citation for Outstanding Service (1986), Phi Beta Mu National Outstanding Service Award (1984) and the South Dakota Music Educators Association Service Award (1983). He was the first inductee into the South Dakota Bandmasters Association Hall of Fame (1992).
DeVilbiss began playing trumpet professionally at the age of 14. He continued performing with dance bands and jazz groups and for many events throughout his life and was instrumental in establishing the USD jazz band program. He held the position of principal trumpet in the Sioux City Symphony for a number of years and played solo trumpet with the Sioux City Municipal Band for 25 years before being named its conductor in 1980, a position he held until 1997.
He was active in his church and a longtime member of the Vermillion Lions Club and the USD Faculty Emeritus Club. He also served on the board of directors of the Shrine to Music museum. In 1975, he received the Community Leaders and Noteworthy Americans Award.
Survivors include his wife, Margaret DeVilbiss,Vermillion, S.D.; two daughters, JoEllen DeVilbiss, Champaign, Ill., and Rae Lynne DeVilbiss-Baker, Winfield; a sister, Ora Bea “Peggy” Davisson, Fayetteville, Ark.; five grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
Faith Phillips
Services for Faith S. Phillips were held at 2 p.m. Jan. 2, 2003, in Swisher-Taylor & Morris Chapel. The Rev. John Bartels officiated. Burial was in Highland Cemetery.
June Vasey was the organist. Music included “How Great Thou Art,” “Amazing Grace” and “Blest Be the Tie That Binds.”
Casket bearers were Steve, Mark, Kaleb and Austin Phillips, Robb Zimmerman and David Templeton.
