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Lulu Miller
GRENOLA - Services for Lulu Miller were held at 10 a.m. Aug. 19, 2000, at the Grenola Christian Church. Pastor Wallace Wartick officiated. Burial was in Greenlawn Cemetery.
Judy Wolfe was the pianist. Bobby and Kenny Miller sang "Amazing Grace," and Juanita and Donnie Miller sang "In the Garden."
Casket bearers were Diana Foiles and Bobby, Cheryl, Craig, Donnie, Jeff and Kenny Miller.
Memorials have been established with the Grenola Christian Church and Elk Manor Nursing Home.
Zimmerman Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
Frank White
Frank P. White, 82, of 1103 E. Fifth, Winfield, died Aug. 18, 2000, at his residence.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Miles Funeral Service. Burial will be in Mount Vernon Cemetery
west of Winfield.
Friends may call at the funeral home until 9 tonight.
Memorials have been established with Hospice Inc. and the Cancer Center of Kansas, 1305 E. Fifth, Winfield, KS 67156. Contributions may be made through the funeral home.
White was born June 14, 1918, in Oklahoma City, to Frank Samuel Ross and Lillian (Sanders) White. As a young child, he lived in Oklahoma and Texas. When he was eight, the family moved to Sedan and later to Winfield. He attended school in Winfield, Arkansas City and Sedan.
After his parents divorced, he worked with his stepfather in the oil fields.
On Jan. 1, 1937, he married Wanda Warren in Newkirk. They made their home in Wellington and Winfield. She died in 1991.
On June 14, 1992, he married Arlene Paxton Frazer in Winfield.
In 1980 White retired from Richardson Brothers of Winfield where he had worked as a carpenter for 18 years. In 1988 he went to work at Wal-Mart as a stockman and worked there until his death.
Survivors include his wife, Arlene White, Winfield; two sons, George White, Wichita, and Andy White, California; a daughter, Beatrice Endriss, Udall; two stepdaughters, Barbara Kelley and Betty Lacey, both of Arkansas City; and more than 100 grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.
A son, Frankie White, and two daughters, Jo Ploof and Gladys King, preceded him in death.
Ethel Davis
HOWARD - Ethel Luienna May Davis, 92, died Aug. 20, 2000, at Howard Twilight Manor.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at the First Baptist Church. The Rev. Marty DeWitt will officiate. Burial will be in Gracelawn Cemetery
under the direction of Zimmerman Funeral Home.
Memorials have been established with the First Baptist Church and the Elk County Ministerial Alliance.
Davis was born June 4, 1908, at Leon, to Mary Martha (Easley) and Oscar Marion Spivey. She attended school in Leon and grew up in the Butler County area.
On Feb. 29, 1928, she married Arthur Samuel Davis in El Dorado. They farmed near Latham for a few years before moving to a farm south of Leon. Davis began working at Boeing Aircraft Co. in Wichita in 1942 and remained an employee during World War II. She left Boeing after the war but returned during the Korean War and continued working at Boeing until the mid-1950s.
In 1958 she and her husband moved to Elk County where they operated a dairy until their retirement in 1971. After her husband's death on July 10, 1973, Davis remained on the farm until moving to Howard in 1976. She had been a resident of Howard Twilight Manor since June 1999.
Davis was a longtime member of the First Baptist Church.
Survivors include two daughters, Helen Copeland, Howard, and Verla Jackson, El Dorado; two sons, Ted Davis, Howard, and Marion Davis, Sedan; two sisters, Faye Dutton, El Dorado, and Vena Duedeck, Augusta; two brothers, Max Spivey, Rogers, Ark., and Kenneth Spivey, Leon; 17 grandchildren, 28 great-grandchildren and nine great-great-grandchildren.
Norman Iverson
ARKANSAS CITY - Norman M. Iverson, 78, an Arkansas City attorney, died at Medicalodge North Post Acute Center on Aug. 21, 2000.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at the First Presbyterian Church. Burial will be in Parker Cemetery.
The family will receive friends at Rindt-Erdman Funeral Home Wednesday evening from 6 to 8.
A memorial has been established with the First Presbyterian Church.
Iverson was born Oct. 19, 1921, in St. Paul, Minn., to Catherine Marie "Henrietta" (Nalipinski) and Julius B. Iverson. After graduating from White Bear Lake High School in 1941, he enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps and qualified for single-engine pilot training in Uvalde, Texas. He was one of 65 fighter pilots sent to Strother Field to be trained to fly the P-47 Thunderbolt fighter plane.
While stationed at Strother Field he met Joline Selan, and they were married Aug. 5, 1944. That December, he left for the Pacific Theater combat area. Based on Ie Shima, Iverson flew skip, strafe and dive bombing missions from Okinawa. His squadron, the 318th Fighter Group, made history by flying over the battleship Missouri for eight hours while Gen. Douglas MacArthur accepted the Japanese surrender.
Iverson received the Air Medal with two oak leaf clusters, AP with four bronze stars and ATO World War II Victory Medal. He remained in the Air Force Reserve, achieving the rank of major.
Iverson returned to Arkansas City and received a bachelor's degree from Southwestern College. While at Southwestern he was employed at Kanotex Refinery and as an agent for Farmers Insurance. He graduated from Washburn University in 1950 with a doctor of juris prudence degree. While at Washburn, he worked for the Kansas Corporation Commission.
He then practiced law in Arkansas City, first as counsel for Acton Manufacturing Co. and then in private practice. He was associated with D. Arthur Walker and later with his sons, forming Iverson & Iverson PA. He received a 50-year pin for membership in the Kansas Bar Association in May.
Iverson was a member of the First Presbyterian Church, Veterans of Foreign Wars, American Legion, Cowley County Bar Association, Kansas Bar Association, American Bar Association, Association of Kansas Trial Lawyers and American Trial Lawyers. He was past commander of the VFW and judge advocate for both the VFW and the Legion.
Survivors include his wife, Joline Iverson, and three sons, N.M., Randy and Rodney Iverson, all of Arkansas City; two daughters, Carol Griffin, Manhattan, and Cynthia Hicks, Orlando, Fla.; a sister, Marie Prier, Winfield; seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Audie Vicars
Audie Maxine Vicars, 69, of 1807 Loomis, Winfield, died Aug. 20, 2000, in Winfield.
Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Central Baptist Church. Burial will be in Highland Cemetery.
Friends may call at Miles Funeral Service until 9 tonight. The family will receive friends from 6 to 7:30.
Memorials have been established with Central Baptist Church and Victory in the Valley in Wichita. Contributions may be made through the church or funeral home.
Vicars was born July 23, 1931, in Orleans, Ind., to Maudie May (Harrison) and Joe Leslie Estelle. She was raised and educated in the Orleans area.
As a young woman she married Paul Dickson. They later divorced.
She later moved to Arkansas City where she married LeRoy Vicars. They lived in Arkansas City and Towanda prior to their divorce.
Since 1980 Vicars had lived in Winfield where she was employed at William Newton Memorial Hospital as a nurse's aide. She later worked in food service at Winfield Rest Haven until her retirement in the early 1990s. She had been in failing health for several years.
Vicars was a member of Central Baptist Church.
Survivors include a son, Max Dickson, and a daughter, Ruth Clifford, both of Winfield; a sister, Dorothy Freeman, Indianapolis; a brother, Loren Estelle, Seattle; four grandchildren and a great-grandson.
Forrest Wyckoff
Services for Forrest D. Wyckoff were held at 12:30 p.m. Aug. 21, 2000, at the First Baptist Church. The Rev. Warren Smith officiated. Burial was in Floral Cemetery.
Special music was "The Lord's Prayer." Marilyn Buffum was the organist, Donna Holloway was the pianist and Christie Muret was the vocalist.
A memorial has been established with the church.
Swisher-Taylor & Morris Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
Vera Bowlby
Vera Marie Bowlby, 76, of 714 E. 13th, Winfield, died Aug. 21, 2000, at William Newton Memorial Hospital.
Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at Miles Funeral Service. Burial will be in Highland Cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home to sign the register until 9 tonight.
A memorial has been established with Hospice Inc. Contributions may be made through the funeral home.
Bowlby was born Dec. 25, 1923, in Blair, to Ima Mary (Landreth) and Merritt Levi Carpenter.
On May 3, 1941, she married Henry O. Bowlby in Newkirk, Okla. They made their home in New Jersey and later resided in Udall and Floral before moving to Winfield in 1974. Her husband died Aug. 7, 1998.
A homemaker, Bowlby was a member of the First Christian Church.
Survivors include two daughters, Imagean Ploof, Winfield, and Mary Taylor, Mulvane; two sons, Harvey Bowlby, Winfield, and Harry Bowlby, Idaho Falls, Idaho; six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Frank White
Services for Frank P. White were held at 10 a.m. Aug. 22, 2000, in Colonial Chapel of Miles Funeral Service. The Rev. Ron Keith officiated. Burial was in Mount Vernon Cemetery.
Irma Scholfield was the organist, and Eugene Shields sang "The Old Rugged Cross" and "Each Step I Take."
Honorary casket bearers were White's grandchildren. Casket bearers were Larry Atkinson, Don Balsters, Bruce Cox, Duane Ploof, Leonard Richardson and A.J. Tapia.
Memorials have been established with Hospice Inc. and the Cancer Center of Kansas in Winfield.
