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LANE COUNTY, KANSAS OBITUARIES
Justin Thomas Eveleigh, three month-old son of John and Donalda Eveleigh, died Tuesday, Oct. 25, 1988. Service 10 a.m. Friday, Church of Christ. Other survivors: brother, Casey, at home; grandparents, Clyde and Viola of Ulysses, Arnold and Clara Lee of Hugoton, great-grandmothers, Bonnie Turner of Lamar, Colo., Mary Duncan of Hugoton, Ada of Lakin. Memorial has been established with Childrens' Organ Transplant Association in care of Southwest Kansas National Bank, Ulysses, Kan. 67880. Phillips Mortuary. (The Wichita Eagle, October 27, 1988) FULLER, MARJORIE L. (WEHATCROFT) Marjorie L. (Wheatcroft) Fuller, 72, farmer, died Sunday, Feb. 5, 1989. Service 2 p.m. Wednesday, First Christian Church, Dighton. Survivors: sons, Del Ray of Scott City, Doug of Dighton, sister Evelyn Stroup of Seymour, Tenn; three grandchildren, five great-grandchildren. Memorials have been established with Lane County senior citizens and the Kansas Western Horseman Association. Boomhower Funeral Home, Dighton. (The Wichita Eagle, February 7, 1989, page 8A) HALL, ARTELIA KIMBALL Funeral services for Mrs. Artelia Kimball Hall, 86, who was a pioneer of Kansas and Oklahoma, will be held at 10 a.m. Monday at the First Presbyterian Church at Caldwell, Kan. Burial will be in the Caldwell Cemetery. Mrs. Hall died Friday in the Morris Rest Home near McKinney, Collin County. Born in Indiana, she moved to Kansas with her parents in a covered wagon in her youth. She saw the opening of the Cherokee Strip, at which time, her husband, the late Edward Howard Hall, made the run for a homestead. She was a resident of Caldwell for more than 60 years. She was a member of the Rebekah Assembly of the Order of the Eastern Star and a charter member of the Caldwell Culture Club. Survivors are two sons, Clyde B. Hall of Dallas and Ralph C. Hall of Dighton, Kan.; five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. (Dallas Morning News, June 22, 1958, page 11, section 4) HONSTEAD, ORAN Oran Honstead, 76, died Thursday, July 9, 2009, at the Lane County Hospital in Dighton. He was born Jan. 26, 1933, in Dighton to Jesse Purl and Leona Pearl Moore Honstead. He was a member of the United Methodist Church of Healy and the VFW No. 6438 of Dighton. Mr. Honstead grew up in Dighton and gradauted from Dighton High School in 1951. He enlisted in the United States Navy, serving from 1952 to 1956 and again from 1957 to 1961. He moved back to Dighton and went to work in maintenance for the Dighton school district. He worked for a brief time for the Lane County solid waste department and then went to work for the Healy School District in maintenance, retiring in 1983. He married Donna Rademacher on Sept. 17, 1961, in Willisville, Ark. Welding always had been a hobby for him, and he turned that into a business. He continued to weld until his health prevented it. He was a man who enjoyed his family and friends. He was preceded in death by his parents; four brothers, Stewart, Clayton, Harold and Jim Honstead; and two sisters, Denzel Johnston and Jesse Williams. Survivors include his wife, of Healy; a daughter, Ardith Krickett Scammehorn of Healy; two sons, Ty Honstead, Healy, and Todd Honstead, Ulysses; two sisters, Elizabeth Lucas, Scotts Bluff, Neb., and Luella Dexter, Gainesville, Mo.; seven grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Funeral is at 3 p.m. Monday at the United Methodist Church in Healy, with the Revs. James L. Brackett and Keith Schadel officiating. Burial was at Dighton Memorial Cemetery. Graveside rites were given by the American Legion Post 190 Honor Guard of Dighton. (Garden City Telegram, July 11, 2009, submitted by Kyle M. Condon) MOWERY, RACHEL GENEVIEVE LANCASTER Rachel Genevieve Lancaster Mowery, 92 of 5005 E 21st, first woman county superintendant of schools in Kansas died Monday. Service 11 a.m. Thursday, Dighton Christian Church, Dighton. Survivors, daughter, Phyllis G. Keating of Denver, five grandchildren, four great-grandchildren. Memorial has been established with Dighton Christian Church. Downing & Lahey Mortuary. (The Wichita Eagle, April 30, 1985, page 9A) Mrs. C. J. Overstreet, it is Heralded, was killed by lightning on the 8isnt. at her home, twelve miles west and seven south of Dighton. (Western Kansas World, July 23, 1887) Speer, Keith E., 54, farmer and stockman, died
Saturday, March 17, 2001. Service 2 p.m. Tuesday, First Christian Church. Giles A. Speer, 62, farmer and stockman, died Friday, June 16, 1989. Service 10:30 a.m. Monday, First Christian Church, Dighton. Survivors: wife, DeLila; sons, Ivan of Dighton, Drew of Berkley, Calif.; daughter, Connie Cravens of Oklahoma City; brothers, Charles of Modoc, Gerald of Garden City, Jarold, Delmer, Keith, Roger, all of Dighton; sisters, Wanda King of Grainfield, LaVona Perkins of Blue Springs, Mo.; four grandchildren. Memorials have been established with First Christian Church, Lane County Hospital, and the VFW Scholarship Fund, Dighton. Boomhower Funeral Home. (The Wichita Eagle, June 18, 1989, page 2B) STREMME, GEORGE WILLIAM Lane Farmer Died Yesterday George Will Stremme, aged 66, farmer of 3-1/2 miles northeast of Lane, died yesterday at 2:50 p.m. in Research hospital, Kansas City. His death resulted from an injury suffered Dec. 22 when a tree he was pulling with a tractor fell and struck him on the head. He was taken immediately to the hospital where he remained unconscious until his death. He was born Sept. 12, 1888 in Brown county, Ill., and had lived near Lane since 1898. Survivors are one brother, Ralph L. Stremme of the home; one sister, Mrs. Will Waddle, 824 S. Cedar; and the following nephews and nieces, Miss Jessie Waddle and Floyd Waddle; Ottawa; Howard Jackson, Fontana; and other living at a distance. Funeral services will be held from the Lane Methodist Church. Definite arrangements will be announced by the Lamb Funeral Home where the body was brought. Interment will be in Lane Cemetery. (The Ottawa Herald, Tuesday, Jan. 4, 1955)
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