Obituaries
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Helen Samuelson of
Funeral arrangements will be announced by Roberts-Blue-Barnett Funeral Home.
The memorial service for Helen
Samuelson,
The family suggests that, instead
of flowers, memorial contributions to S.O.S. or
Mrs. Samuelson died
She was a physical therapist in
The daughter of George and Ann
Breyan Holebink, she was born
Mrs. Samuelson was a member
of St. Andrews Episcopal Church. She also was a member of the Floralore Garden Club.
She is also survived by one
daughter, Ruthann Resch of
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John Ray Seaton of Olpe died Tuesday, June 26, 2007, at the Flint Hills Care Center in Emporia. He
was 72.
The funeral will be at 1 p.m. Friday at the Jones VanArsdale Funeral Home in Lebo.
Burial will be in Hartford Cemetery at Hartford. Friends may call from 3 to 6 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Memorial contributions to the Center for Basic Cancer Research may be sent in care
of the funeral home, 107 W. Sixth St., Lebo, KS 66856.
The funeral for John Ray Seaton of rural Olpe was held today at the Jones VanArsdale
Funeral Home in Lebo. Burial will be in Hartford Cemetery.
Memorial contributions to the Center for Basic Cancer Research may be sent in care
of the funeral home, 107 W. Sixth, P.O. Box 43, Lebo, KS 66856.
Mr. Seaton died Tuesday, June 26, 2007, at the Flint Hills Care Center in Emporia.
He was 72.
He worked as a conductor for the Santa Fe Railroad for more than 30 years before he retired in the mid 1990s. He
served in the National Guard in the mid-1950s. He was a lifelong resident of Coffey and Lyon counties.
The son of Marvin V. and Ina Laura Lane Seaton, he was born Jan. 14, 1935, in Burlington.
He graduated from Burlington High School.
He married Eleanor Hutchinson in 1956. They were divorced. He married Barbara Dalby
in 1967. She died in September 2002.
Mr. Seaton was a member of Veterans of Foreign Wars Lowry-Funston Post 1980.
He is survived by three sons, Douglas Seaton of Auburn, Jesse J. Dalby of Fayetteville,
N.C., and John Ray Dalby of Wisconsin; four daughters, Debra A. Redding of Waverly, Brenda K. Seaton of Auburn,
Chris Kraum of Sonoma, Calif., and Kimberley R. Dalby of Phoenix, Ariz.; one sister, Virginia Tucker of Wichita;
three brothers, Marvin Seaton of Wichita, Francis M. Seaton of Tulsa, Okla., and Charles Seaton of Santa Maria,
Calif.; 19 grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.
A grandson, Jayme Bull, died earlier. (The Emporia Gazette, July 4, 2007)
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The graveside service will be
at
The family suggests that, instead
of flowers, memorial contributions be sent to O'Connell Youth Ranch, 1621 N. 1320 Road,
All Faiths Funeral Home in
(Emporia Gazette ~
Louis L. Schmucker, well known to many Emporia people, died suddenly Saturday at his home in Tucson, Ariz. He had suffered from heart trouble for several years, and death followed an attack of this disease. Mr. Schmucker was born in Westport, Mo., October 4, 1866, and was the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Schmucker. The family moved to Lawrence in 1867, and to El Dorado in 1880. He attended the public schools of El Dorado, and later Vermillion Institute in Haysville, Ohio. He was appointed deputy postmaster of El Dorado in 1890 and served several years in that office following which he took a postal run on the Ellinwood Branch, and later ran from El Paso to Los Angeles.
After W. A. White bought the Emporia Gazette Schmucker came to Emporia, in 1896. He was the Gazette's advertising manager and bookkeeper until 1900, and in 1899 he was married to Miss Carrie Wilson of this town. Mrs. Schmucker and three children, Martha, Charles and George survive.
Since leaving Emporia Mr. Schmucker worked on the New Orleans Picayune, the Kansas City Star, the Topeka State Journal, the Wichita Eagle, and following the death of the late T. B. Murdock, he was a time manager of the El Dorado Republican. He went from El Dorado to the Tucson Star.
The body will be brought to El Dorado for interment, and the funeral
will be held tomorrow. The Masonic order, of which the dead man was a member, will have charge of the services.
(Emporia Gazette ~ May 26, 1913)