Butler County Genealogy Trails Kansas J.C. Foulks Bio

BUTLER COUNTY'S EIGHTY YEARS BIOS

J. C. FOULKS

(Transcribed by Peg Luce)

No death in recent years has occasioned such widespread sorrow as that of Carl Foulks. Here was a genuine neighbor and friend. He had lived in El Dorado since his youth; he had always been connected in some intimate and useful way with the commercial and financial structure of the town. He was a quiet man, but there a manly sweetness and strength in his nature which linked friends to him by the score. His word was inviolate. Men entrusted him with their responsibilities and their dollars, and never in his life did he abuse a confidence or pervert a trust. He was a listener; others talked while he sat mute with a friendly light of understanding in his eye and a smile of appreciation on his face. But he was a doer. His work came first, and at the end of the day every “i” was dotted, every “t” was crossed. He left nothing to chance; he was accurate, painstaking, careful, reliable. Last evening he closed his desk and went home. Today he is no more, but the records of the institution of which he was the executive in charge will be found in perfect order. There was no loose ends in Carl Foulks’ life.

In his home, he was a gentleness and courtesy personified. Through all his personal relationships ran a strain of sweet accord, of neighborly sympathy and consideration. In this rude, shoving, jostling world of the present, he was an immaculate gentleman, never obtrusive, never boisterous, never hasty or ill-mannered. Withal cepts of the Golden Rule with a fidelity and good cheer that set him apart.

A valiant gentleman was Jesse Carl Foulks, and because his kind is so few, so rare, in this old work we shall miss him with increasing sorrow and regret. But his memory like a saving benediction shall abide for aye in this community whose joyous privilege it was to know him best and to feel the inspiration of his daily presence. July 6, 1929.