Funeral services over the bodies of Mrs. Eliza Teter and Mrs. J. H. Armstrong, who were killed late Monday afternoon in a motor accident south of DeGaff, will be held late tomorrow afternoon.
Mrs. Teter’s funeral will be held at 4:30 o’clock at the Teter home, 320 South Taylor Street. Rev. L. T. Faulders will officiate. Burial will be made in the Belle Vista Cemetery.
The funeral services for Mrs. Armstrong will be held at 7 o’clock tomorrow night at the family home, 316 South Taylor Street. Mr. Faulders also will officiate at the services. Mrs. Armstrong’s body will be taken to Wichita, Saturday morning where burial will be made in the Maple Grove cemetery.
A. J. Weimer who was driving the car in which the women were killed was reported today to be showing much improvement. He is still at the El Dorado Hospital, but it is believed he can be removed to his home, within a few days. Mr. Weimer lived with his mother Mrs. Teter, at 320 South Taylor Street. (El Dorado Times, July 14, 1921)
News was received in El Dorado today of the death of Mrs. George Dunn, at Santa Anna California, where she has lived for a number of years. Mrs. Dunn was born and reared at Douglass and was well known by many pioneers in the south part of the county. Mrs. Dunn is survived by her husband and ten children.
Bert Shanks of Douglass, s a brother of the deceased. Mrs. Dunn was the youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Shanks, who conducted one of the pioneer hotels at Douglass. (El Dorado Times, July 14, 1921)
Joseph F. Ellis, aged 39, active in public affairs for many years, died at 9 o’clock this morning at the El Dorado Hospital, succumbing to a paralytic stroke, which he suffered May 15, and its subsequent complications. Mr. Ellis had sufficiently recovered to be up and around his home, until last Sunday when he suffered a relapse. He was removed from his home in the tenth block on North Main Street, last night, to the hospital.
Mr. Ellis had been, for years, the political leader of the Fourth Ward, which included his home precinct, Riverside. He was a member of the city council six years and was president of the council one term. He was usually the youngest member of the council and was remarkably well read and alert in civic matters. He was born in Butler County and reared in El Dorado where he had been proprietor of a grocery store for the past five years. Eleven months ago, Mr. Ellis was married to Miss Adaline Perkins, of Reed Springs, Mo. He is survived by his widow and two sisters, Miss Anna Brown and Mrs. D. L. Cooley. Mr. Ellis was formerly a member of the Presbyterian Church. He had many friends in this county. Funeral service will be held at the home tomorrow afternoon at 3 o’clock. Rev. L. T. Faulders will conduct the services. (El Dorado Times, July 13, 1921)
Leonard F. Lawson, 77, of Wichita, a retired employee of Wichita Sheet Metal Company died Sunday.
Services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Old Mission Cemetery at Wichita.
Survivors are his wife, Emma B.; two sons, Leonard Jr. of Wichita and Herbert W. of San Diego, Calif., a brother, Herbert of El Dorado, and a sister Mrs. Viva Allen of Neodesha.
Old Mission Mortuary of Wichita is in charge of arrangements. (El Dorado Times, Monday, Nov. 22, 1976)
Ralph Weston Linnens, 76, of Cedar Point, died Tuesday, April 4, 1995 at Newton Medical Center. Services are 2 p.m. Saturday at Florence Christian Church with Rev. Larry Timm, Rev. James West, Jr. and Rev. George Lespagnard officiating. Burial will be in the Cedar Point Cemetery.
He was born Dec. 20, 1918 in Wonsevu, the son of Beatrice Nicholson and Guy Leslie Linnens. During WWII he served in the U.S. Navy. He was president and chairman of the board for the Cottonwood Valley Bank. On April 13, 1941, he and Bertha were married in Florence. His memberships included the Florence Chrisitan Church where he served as elder and treasurer, Masonic Lodge 114 AF&AM, Kansas Bankers Assoc. Roniger Musuem Board, New Church Committee for Kansas Christian Churches.
Survivors include: wife, Bertha, sons, Barry of Florence, Maurice of Lawrence, five grandchildren. Memorials are to the Kansas Christian home and the Florence Christian Church. Zeiner Funeral Home, Marion has the arrangements. (El Dorado Times, April 6, 1995)
Helen Bernice Love, 76, homemaker of Tucson, Ariz., died Wednesday, May 3, 1995. Services are 11 a.m. Wednesday in Sunset Lawns Cemetery.
She was born Nov. 13, 1918, in Nowata, Okla., the daughter of David Broadbent and Mary Metzner, and was listed on the roll of the Delaware Indians. She attended El Dorado schools through her junior year and grated from Ponca City High School. On Sept. 17, 1939, she and Howard C. Love were married in San Bernadino, Calif.
Survivors include: husband, Howard, daughters, Dianna Britting of McPherson, Phyllis “Suzie” Kidoo of Wichita, Marilyn Aaroe of Bartlesville, Okla., brother, Edward Broadbent of Wichita, eight grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren. Memorials are to First Baptist Church, 120 W. 6th, Benson, Ariz. 85602. Kirby Morris Funeral Home has the arrangements. (El Dorado times, May 8, 1995)
Mary Elizabeth Love, 91, of El Dorado, died Saturday, March 3, 1990. Service: 2 p.m. Wednesday at First Christian Church. Burial follows at Sunset Lawns cemetery.
Mrs. Love was born August 17, 1898 at Arrington, the daughter of John and Anna (Moore) Bowser. She married Raleigh W. Love, who died in 1975. She had lived in the El Dorado area since 1938, moving here from Buhler. She was a homemaker and mother. She was a member of the First Christian Church, Friendship Sunday School class, Circle III, and Friendship Rebekah Lodge.
Survivors include three sons, Keith and David, both of El Dorado, Ernest of Manhattan, three daughters, Darlene Brecht of Tulsa, Margaret Maguire and Nancy Meyer, both of Wichita, 16 grandchildren, and 12 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, two brothers, one sister, one grandson and one great-granddaughter. Kirby Morris Funeral Home has charge of the arrangements. (El Dorado Times, March 5, 1990)
Services for Mary E. Love, 91, were held Wednesday, March 7, 1990, at the First Christian Church. Mrs. Love was born August 17, 1898 in Arrington. She died March 9, 1990. Interment followed at Sunset Lawns cemetery. The Rev. Stan Seymour officiated, Mr. and Mrs. Woody Williams sang “How Great Thou Art,” and “Whispering Hope,” organist was Mrs. Amos B. Marsh.
Casket bearers were Doug Brecht, Mike Maguire, Dennis Love, Ernie Love and Jeff Dever. Honorary casket bearers were Mac Burnham, Dale Daniels, Mark White, Richard Wilson, Howard Cool, Harold Peal, Dr. R. M. Brian, Everette Atkisson, Jim Boyer, Larry Patton, Frank Marley, Charles M. Wright, Bill Knapp, Marvin Conner and Clarence Zacharias.
Rebekah services were held by the Naomi Rebekah Lodge #566.
Kirby Morris Funeral Home has charge of the arrangements. (El Dorado Times, March 12, 1990)
Mrs. Opal C. Love, 73, died today at Bethel deaconess Hospital, Newton, after a long illness.
She was born March 9, 1903 at Stilwell, Okla., the daughter of William H. and Nettie Holloway Dannenberg. She married Alred L. Love, at Sapulpa, Okla., on Aug. 13, 1921. They lived in El Dorado from 1952 to 1966.
She was a member of the First Christian Church of Drumright, Okla.
She is survived by her husband, a son, Bill of Denver, Colo., a daughter, Carmen Houser of Newton, formerly of El Dorado, one brother, Pete Dannenberg of Oklahoma City, four sisters, Mrs. Flossie Luster of Stillwater, Okla., Mrs. Bill Aldridge, Henrietta, Tex., Mrs. Madge Stierwait, Pittsburg, Tex., and Mrs. Jacqueline Jackson of Houston, Tex., three grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
She was preceded in death by two sisters and one grandson.
Graveside services will be at 2 p.m. Monday in Walnut Valley Memorial Park Cemetery, El Dorado with Rev. W. Frank Aten of the El Dorado First Christian Church officiating.
Draper-Cannon Funeral Home, Newton has charge. (El Dorado Times, Nov. 26, 1976)
Services for Richard Loyd, 57, Wichita attorney and 1950 graduate of EHS, were held Saturday with Downing & Lahey Mortuary of Wichita in charge of arrangements. Burial followed at Resthaven Cemetery. Mr. Loyd died Wednesday, April 11, 1990.
He was born Sept. 29, 1932, at Wichita, the son of Arch and Ruth Loyd. His father was the El Dorado KG&E manager.
He is survived by his wife, Barbara, four daughters, Susan Wiles of Madison, conn., Sara Lutz of Austin, Texas., Carol Loyd of Denver, Cathy Loyd of Cortez, Colo., three grandchildren.
Memorial is with the Presbyterian Church and the American Heart Association. (El Dorado Times, April 17, 1990)
Charles Potter, aged 64, a resident of the McCune neighborhood, southeast of Benton, for the past 32 years was injured about 5 o’clock yesterday afternoon when he fell from an alfalfa stack on which he was working on the J. C. Cockran farm, five miles southwest of Towanda. He died shortly after midnight.
The accident happened when Mr. Potter was working at the edge of the stack. Mr. Cockran threw him a large fork of alfalfa which caused him to lose his balance and fall to the ground. Mr. Potter fell on his back receiving fatal internal injuries.
The injured man was not believed to be in a serious condition until late last night, when the pains in his back became severe. Efforts to relieve his suffering were in vain.
Mr. Potter was well known in the western part of the county. He had lived on a farm three miles southeast of Benton for the past 14 years. Before that, he resided on other land in the same vicinity. Mr. Potter was a bachelor and as far as is known had no relatives.
Funeral services will be held at 2 o’clock tomorrow afternoon at the Benton cemetery.
Corner W. E. Turner said this morning no inquest will be held. He is satisfied from the evidence furnished him last night that Mr. Potter came to his death through the fall. (El Dorado Times, July 14, 1921)
Willis Ross, aged 38, a pumper, was killed instantly about 10:30 o’clock this morning while working on Well No. 18 on the Enyeart lease of J. W. Gilliland, five miles west of El Dorado. Ross’s body was found in the pump house at the well about 11 o’clock by m. C. Ewart, a worker on the lease.
Although it is not known how Ross came to his death, it is believed he was attempting to apply some dressing to the belt, which runs from the gasoline engine to the bull wheel in the rig and that his clothing either caught in the belt or in the clutch on the engine. It is believed after being ensnared in this manner that he was thrown violently over the engine. When found, the body was lodged between the fly wheel on the right hand side of the engine and the engine itself.
The reason it is believed this is the manner in which Ross lost his life is because the belt from the engine to the bull wheel was broken and a piece of waste and belt dressing was found clutched in Ross’s hands. An area about a foot square on the guard over the engine, also showed it had been wiped free from dust. It is believed Ross’s body struck the guard when it was hurled through the air.
Mr. Ross was well known in the El Dorado Field. He removed with his family to the Enyeart lease about nine months ago. He is survived by his widow and four small children. Mrs. Ross collapsed when informed of her husband’s death. (El Dorado Times, July 13, 1921)
Funeral services over the bodies of Mrs. Eliza Teter and Mrs. J. H. Armstrong, who were killed late Monday afternoon in a motor accident south of DeGaff, will be held late tomorrow afternoon.
Mrs. Teter’s funeral will be held at 4:30 o’clock at the Teter home, 320 South Taylor Street. Rev. L. T. Faulders will officiate. Burial will be made in the Belle Vista Cemetery.
The funeral services for Mrs. Armstrong will be held at 7 o’clock tomorrow night at the family home, 316 South Taylor Street. Mr. Faulders also will officiate at the services. Mrs. Armstrong’s body will be taken to Wichita, Saturday morning where burial will be made in the Maple Grove cemetery.
A. J. Weimer who was driving the car in which the women were killed was reported today to be showing much improvement. He is still at the El Dorado Hospital, but it is believed he can be removed to his home, within a few days. Mr. Weimer lived with his mother Mrs. Teter, at 320 South Taylor Street. (El Dorado Times, July 14, 1921)
Mrs. Rebecca Ver Brick, aged 83, a resident of El Dorado from 1878 until 1901, died July 6, at her home at Bristow, Okla. after a short illness. The body was buried at that place. E. E. Ver Brick of El Dorado, a son of the deceased, returned from Bristow today after attending the funeral.
Mrs. Ver Brick came to Kansas in 1871. She located in El Dorado in 1878, but about twenty years ago removed to Arkansas. While living there, Mr. Ver Brick died. About eleven years ago, Mrs. Ver Brick removed to Bristow. She was well known here by a number of pioneers. (El Dorado Times, Wednesday, July 13, 1921)
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