Mrs. Neoma Jean (Jeannie) Scott, of Wichita, a former El Doradoan, died Thursday in a Wichita hospital. She was 24 years old.
Mrs. Scott had lived at Wichita since March of this year. In addition to living here, she previously resided at Emporia.
She was graduated from El Dorado High school in 1958 and two years later was graduated from Susan B. Allen Memorial Hospital Nurses School.
Mrs. Scott was born Dec. 29, 1940, at Wichita. She and Nicholas B. Scott were married March 23, 1961, at Madison, Kan.
She was a member of the Madison First Presbyterian Church and was past honor queen of the Job's Daughters.
Survivors include the husband, one son, Nicholas Blaine Scott II, of the home; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Boucher, 123 North Atchison; two sisters, Mrs. Lenea Beckham of Latham and Mrs. Becky Jordan of Topeka; a brother, George Boucher, Jr., Rossville, Ga., and a grandfather, Arthur Mitchell, Wichita.
Funeral arrangements will be announced by the Kirby Funeral Home. (El Dorado Times, August 27, 1965)
Neoma Scott Rites Arranged
Services for Mrs. Neoma Jean Scoot, 24, of 1644 S. Battin, who died Thursday, will be at 10 a.m. Monday at First
Presbyterian Church, El Dorado, Kan.
She was born in Wichita, and moved to El Dorado, attending El Dorado High School and Allen Memorial Nurses School
there. She returned to Wichita in March 1965. She was a member of the Madison, Kan., First Presbyterian Church.
Survivors include her wider, Nicholas; a son, Nicholas B.II, of the home; herparents, Mr. and Mrs. george Boucher,
El Dorado; two sisters, Mrs. Lena Beckham, Latham, Kan., and Mrs. Becky Jordan, Topeka; a brother, George Boucher,
Jr., Rossville, Ga.; and a grandfather, Arthur Mitchell, Wichita.
Graveside services will be at 1 p.m. Monday at Madison Cemetery.
Kirby Funeral home Has Charge.
(Wichita Eagle Newspaper ~ Date Unknown ~ Submitted by Marland Boucher)
Two-year-old El Dorado girl met death of suspected heat stroke and suffocation in a closed automobile at the family home here Monday.
Victim of the tragedy was Jennifer Suzanne Seeber, small daughter and youngest child of Mr. and Mrs. Dean Seeber, 1015 Douglas Road.
The child was not missed and no anxiety was held for her safety prior to discovery of the body in the car shortly after noon.
Mrs. Seeber had thought the little girl was with other children of the family, all of whom had been playing in an upstairs room of the spacious home.
When Mrs. Seeber summoned the children for lunch, the little girl was missing. A search was instituted and the inert body was found soon afterward on the front seat of the car.
Windows of the vehicle had been closed the previous night because of expected rainfall. Mid-day heat had created an extreme temperature in the tight enclosure.
Position of the body indicate that the child may have climbed into the car and fallen asleep there. Cause of death is not yet officially established.
The parents started immediate efforts at resuscitation at the home and enroute to Allen Memorial Hospital but all were unavailing and the little girl was pronounced dead on arrival.
Jennifer Suzanne was born at El Dorado on April 25, 1963.
Survivors in addition to the parents, include a sister, Anna Marie, 8; two brothers, Glenn Eldon, 9 and Michael Dean, 4; the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Seeber, 303 North Atchison and Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wright, Severy, Kan.
Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday morning at 10:30 at the Kirby Funeral Home Chapel by Dr. Joe Riley Burns, pastor of the First Methodist Church. Interment will be made in Sunset Lawns Cemetery.
The casket will not be opened at the services. Memorial contributions may be made to Bradford Memorial Library. (El Dorado Times, August 17, 1965)
Pictured in the Kansas City Star of June 6, with an account of his death, was Charles H. Sharp of Seal Beach, Calif., son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Sharp, pioneer residents of El Dorado. His death occurred June 5. The home in Seal Beach is at 13902 Thunderbird Drive, Apt. 8 K, Block 2.
Before moving from El Dorado to Kansas City, Mo., Mr. Sharp was associated with his father and brothers as building contractors. One of the many buildings they constructed here was for the former Carnegie Library. The building, which now houses the Butler County Historical Museum, is at West Central and South Star.
This is an except from the Kansas City Star story:
Charles Henry Sharp, 80, of Seal Beach, Calif., a founder of the Sharp Brothers Construction company in Kansas City, died yesterday at a hospital in Seal Beach. He was born in El Dorado, Kansas and lived here twenty-two years before moving to California three years ago.
Mr. Sharp later owned and managed a separate company that operated in Kansas City forty years. He formerly owned the Westport Arms Apartments, 310 West Armour. He was a member of the Christian Church and of the Ararat Shrine.
He leaves his wife, Mrs. Iola Sharp of the home, two sons, Charles W. Sharp Jr., Sacramento, Calif., and Jack H. Sharp, 8821 Delmar, Prairie Village, four sisters, Mrs. Hazel Hulen, 4520 North Bales, Mrs. Nettie Riddle, Denver, Mrs. Ruth Funderburk, 3520 Warwick and Mrs. Mildred Hill, 525 east Armour. Services will be at 11 o'clock Wednesday, June 7 at Mount Moriah chapel; burial in Mount Moriah cemetery. The family requests no flowers and suggest contributions to the Masonic children's hospital. (El Dorado Times, June 16, 1966)
Pioneer is Dead - End Comes to Well Known El Doradoan After A Short Illness Early Today
Joseph Sharp, aged 80 years, who found time for great and helpful activity in the building of this county and town, died at 1:30 o'clock this morning in his home at 215 South Star Street. He had been in failing health several months and bedfast since Sunday night. Since Monday noon he had not recognized members of his family. He had never before been confined to his bed with a serious illness. Until Sunday night he was able to be out, was down town Saturday and out for a walk Sunday. His death is a shock to many friends.
The body will lie in state at the home from 11 o'clock Friday morning until one o'clock.
Funeral services will be held at 3 o'clock Friday afternoon in the Christian Church. Rev. Fred W. Condit, pastor of the church officiating. Interment will be made in Belle Vista cemetery. The Hammer Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Pallbearers will be six sons in law of Mr. Sharp, including R. A. Riddle, Dale Downing, William Opperman, Homer Hill, Ernest Elson and Harry Hart.
Honorary pallbearers are Robt. H. Hazlett, M. M. VanDenberg, George W. Elson, W. E. Stone, Judge R. S. Scott, Judge A. L. L. Hamilton, Judge V. P. Mooney and Manley L. Arnold.
Joseph Sharp left upon El Dorado the impress of an active achieving, modest citizen. In his quiet way he made scores of friends who sorrow because of his passing. His was an interesting personality and he enjoyed telling reminiscences of the El Dorado of sixty years ago. He was a devoted husband and father. In all their fifty years of married life, he and Mrs. Sharp had moved but twice. That section of El Dorado now known as Sharpville was their earliest home. Two years ago Mr. and Mrs. Sharp celebrated their golden wedding anniversary, entertaining more than 100 friends. They lived happily and prospered materially throughout their long years together in El Dorado. Mrs. Sharp was Miss Rosa Burnham before the marriage on August 13, 1879.
As a youth Mr. Sharp became a member of the Methodist Church. The only other organization to which he belonged was the Independent Order of Odd Fellows Lodge. Which he joined in 1882.
Mr. Sharp is survived by Mrs. Sharp, four sons and seven daughters, They are John Sharp of Kansas City, Mo., Charles Sharp of Emporia; Ray and Russell Sharp of El Dorado, Mrs. W. F. Opperman, Mrs. Mattie Scribner, Mrs. Ernest Elson, Mrs. Dale Downing, Mrs. R. A. Riddle and Mrs. Homer Hill of El Dorado, and Mrs. Harry Hart of Coffeyville. He is also survived by seventeen grandchildren.
The only previous death in the Sharp family was that of the eldest son, Earl Sharp, who died eleven years ago last night.
Joseph Sharp was for a number of years one of the extensive contractors and builders of butler County, but in recent years had not been actively engaged in that work, although his sons, operating under the name of Sharp Brothers became among the chief contractors and builders in Kansas.
Joseph Sharp was born in New York in 1851. His parents, John and Zella (Payne) Sharp, natives of Yorkshire, England, died when he was eighteen months old. He had one brother, Frank who was reared by a family namped Tipton, near Columbus, Ohio, and Joseph grew up in the home of his cousin near Worthington, Ohio. Joseph Sharp learned the mason and stone cutter's trade when a youth and in 1870 he and his brother came to Butler County. Frank went to Wichita where he became a carriage and wagon manufacturer.
The brothers came to Butler County by rail as far as Emporia and from there to El Dorado by stage coach, which crossed what was to be Mr. Sharp's front yard in his first home. El Dorado was then a hamlet, with practically no settlement west of the Santa Fe Railroad and part of the present court house block was a cattle corral.
Upon arriving at El Dorado, Joseph Sharp engaged in the meat market business, his shop located where the Seth Frazier lumber Company office now is. Mr. Sharp homesteaded a claim in Fairview Township and managed to spend enough time on that in connection with his market business, to comply with the homestead law, proving up and receiving his deed from President U. S. Grant. In the meantime he had engaged in building, his first work in that line being on the construction of the Farmers and Merchants bank building. During the next forty years he erected important buildings in El Dorado and also built a great many bridges in Butler county. He built the Central school building, which was later destroyed by fire; the opera house, drug store building. Smith Building, I. O. O. F. building which was built in 1881, the Conley building and the building formerly occupied by Ora Wyant and also a great many private residences. He built the arch bridge on North Main Street, the bridge on South Main street, and furnished stone for the bridge near the pumping station, as well as for a great many stone and concrete bridges throughout this section of the state.
Mr. Sharp was a pioneer horticulturist of Butler County. He was successful in raising small fruits and demonstrated that small fruit can be profitably grown in this section. He held the record as a strawberry grower in Kansas, having raised 206 bushels on one acre.
During sixty-one years in Butler County, Mr. Sharp witnessed many changes. When he came here buffalo were plentiful just west of El Dorado and he frequently went on buffalo hunting trips. His last trip was as far west as Medicine Lodge in 1877. Mr. Sharp was a life-long Republican and served as a member of the Republican Central Committee for years, being several times a delegate to county conventions. He also served a number of years on the city council. (El Dorado Times, Thursday, February 26, 1931, Volume XXII, Number 75, front page and continued on page 8)
Lillie (Mrs. Andrew) Sharp, 85, of Eureka, died Sunday.
Services were held today at the Campbell Funeral Home at Eureka.
Survivors are a son Clifford of El Dorado and a daughter, Mrs. Leota Bales of Neal. (El Dorado Times, September 21, 1976)
Mrs. Maud M. Sharp, 74, Kansas City, Mo., a former resident of El Dorado, died Wednesday at Kansas City.
Funeral services will be conducted Friday at the Muehlebach chapel at Kansas City. Burial will be in Mount Moriah cemetery at Kansas City.
Mrs. Sharp was a resident of El Dorado until 1939. She was the widow of the late Ray W. Sharp, chairman of the board of the Sharp Brothers Contracting company, of Kansas City.
Surviving are four sons, Joseph R. Sharp, of Kansas City, Raymond D. Sharp of Springfield, Mo., Donnie Sharp and Robert L. Sharp, both of the home; two daughters, Mrs. Rogene Chapman of Detroit, Mich., and Mrs. Barbara Shultz, of Overland Park, one sister, Louise Spencer, of Santa Clara, Cal., and two brothers, W .E. Mulkey of Grants Pass, Ore., and Charles A. Mulkey of LaGrande, Ore. There are 20 grandchildren and 21 great-grandchildren. (El Dorado Times, March 5, 1970)
Ray Sharp, a native El Doradoan and former contractor here, died today in Kansas City, Mo., where he had lived for the past 20 years.
Mr. Sharp had been engaged with his father and brothers in earlier days in the contracting business here.
Death came at a hospital where he had been confined a week.
Mr. Sharp was a long time member of the El Dorado Elks Lodge.
Survivors include the widow, the former Maude Molkey of Leon; two daughters, Jean, Detroit, Mich., and Barbara, Kansas City, both of whom are married; four sons, Donald, Joe, Raymond and Bob, all of Kansas City, one brother, Charles of California, four sisters, Mrs. Ruth Thunderburg and Mrs. Hazel Elson both of Kansas City, Mrs. Mildred Hill and Mrs. Nettie Riddle, both of Denver, Colo.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday in Kansas City. Interment will be made there. (El Dorado Times, November 30, 1965)
Rites are being held this Thurdsay afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Muehlebach Mortuary in Kansas City, Mo., for Ray Sharp, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Sharp and who died Tuesday in Kansas City where he had lived more than twenty years. He had been hospitalized a week. The home was at 7300 Terrace street.
Mr. Sharp had retained membership in the local Elks Lodge a gesture of sentiment for El Dorado where his parents were the first couple married in El Dorado to have celebrated their golden wedding anniversary here. The home here was at 215 South Star Street.
Mr. Sharp and his brothers, John and Charles Sharp, were building contractors as was their father. The brothers built the stone building at Central and South Star as a Carnegie Library. It was vacated when Mrs. R. H. Bradford gave El Dorado the handsome Bradford Memorial Library on South Washington Street.
The former Carnegie library building which now houses the Butler County Historical Society's museum, still is a sturdy building.
Surviving are Mrs. Sharp (Maude); two married daughters, Barbara of Kansas City, Mo., and Jean of Detroit, Mich., four sons, Raymond Jr., Donald, Joe and Robert of Kansas City, Mo.; a brother Charles Sharp of 13902 Thunderbird Drive, Apartment 8K, Block 2, Seal Beach, California 90740; Mrs. Jack Funerburgh (Ruth) and Mrs. Hazel Elson Hulen of Kansas City, Mrs. Homer Hill (Mildred) and Mrs. Al Riddle (Nettie) of Denver, Colo. (El Dorado Times, Dec. 1, 1965)
Mrs. Joseph Sharp, Well Known El Doradoan, Succumbs After Short Illness
Mrs. Joseph Sharp, aged 81 years, who resided at 215 South Star street and was a widely known El Dorado pioneer, with a host of friends, died here at 8:30 o'clock last night succumbing to uraemic poisoning with which she had been seriously ill since Saturday night. Mrs. Sharp had lived in Kansas 74 years and in El Dorado 71 years.
Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the Byrd Funeral Home. The Rev. T. O. Parrish, pastor of the Christian Church, will officiate and interment will be made in Belle Vista Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be eight of Mrs. Sharp's grandsons, Joe, Raymond, Donald, Charles, and Jack Sharp, Leland Opperman, George Clark, Elson and Richard Kellar.
Although she had not been in the best of health the past week, Mrs. Sharp with her accustomed vigor and cheerful outlook, had been about the house and was out for a ride in her car last Friday. Last Tuesday while in Wichita, as a luncheon guest of her daughter, Mrs. Harvey Kessler and a Mr. Kessler, Mrs. Sharp made plans for adding trellis to the flower garden at he home and later in the week had a permanent for her hair These two minor activities indicated her never diminishing interest in the future.
Mrs. Sharp was benevolent and civic minded, but her family, the 12 children whom she and Mr. sharp reared to young manhood and young womanhood, the grandchildren and great grandchildren, were the center of her universe. She lavished upon them her personal care and counsel and never was happier than when every one of them was beneath her roof. Her affection seemed limitless and each grandchild was almost as great a source of joy to her as were her own children.
Her home was attractive and comfortable and within it was an abiding welcome for members of her family, and their friends.
Since childhood, Mrs. Sharp had been a member of the Christian Church. She was a member of the Women's Relief Corps and for years was an active worker in that philanthropic organization. She also was a member of the Rebekahs Past Noble Grand.
Rosa Lind Burnham was born January 20, 1860 in Tipton, Ind., the daughter of William and Lucinda (Montgomery) Burnham. She was married to Joseph Sharp, at El Dorado on Easter Sunday, April 13, 1879. They were one of the first couples arrived in El Dorado and who had lived here continuously, to celebrate their golden wedding anniversary. Mr. Sharp, a contractor and builder who erected many buildings and bridges in this county, died February 26, 1931.
Mr. and Mrs. Sharp had lived so long in east El Dorado, south of Central Avenue, that that section became known as Sharpsville. Nineteen years ago they purchased the present home from the late W. E. Stone. Of Mr. and Mrs. Sharp's 12 children, Earl Sharp died in February 2910, and Russell Sharp died in August 1938. They were the eldest and the youngest of the family.
Surviving are seven daughters and three sons, Mrs. Harvey Kessler of Wichita, Mrs. Mattie Scribner, Mrs. J. Ernest Elson, Mrs. Nina Hart, Mrs. Ruth Downey and Mrs. Homer Hill of El Dorado, Mrs. A. L. Riddle and John, Ray and Charles Sharp all of Kansas City, Mo., and 19 grandchildren and nine great grandchildren. (El Dorado Times, April 7, 1941, Monday, Volume XXII, Number 109)
Funeral services for Mrs. Joseph Sharp, pioneer El Doradoan who died here Sunday, were held at the Byrd Funeral Home yesterday afternoon with a large group of friends and relatives paying final respects. Rev. Tom O. Parish, pastor of the Christian Church, officiated and interment was made in Belle Vista Cemetery. Members of the Rebekah Lodge were present in a body and had charge of services at the grave.
Joe, Raymond, Donald, Charles and Jack Sharp, Leland Opperman, George Elson and Richard Kellar, all grandsons, were pallbearers while Mrs. Blaine Egan, Mrs. Frank Kobel and Mrs. Theodore Trapp were flower bearers. C. W. Harvey accompanied by Mrs. W. R. Rowell, sang "Shall We Know?" and "In the Garden." (El Dorado Times, Wednesday, April 9, 1941, Volume XXII, Number 114)
Final rites for a lifelong El Doradoan, Mrs. Theda Sharp, 64, were held Tuesday afternoon in the Kirby Funeral Home Chapel.
Mrs. Sharp who resided at 1203 Orient, died early Sunday morning at her home.
Interment was in Sunset Lawns cemetery. The Rev. Donald McCracken, pastor of the First Baptist Church officiated.
Pallbearers were: Clarence Hunn, Frank A. Fowler, Jr., Raymond Griggs, Robert Buffum, T. L. Parrish and M. J. Maciula. (El Dorado Times, March 14, 1962)
Mrs. Homer Smith (Lizzie Scott) whose death occurred Tuesday, August 31, in Allen Memorial Hospital, had been a resident of Potwin the past sixty-five years. She was born October 21, 1882, at Arkansas City, and was a member of the Potwin Methodist Church; the Woman's Society of Christian Service and the El Dorado Rebekah Lodge.
The death of Mr. Smith occurred in 1941.
Surviving are several nieces and nephews among whom are Mrs. Albert Burch, mrs. Louise Soden and Wayne Smith of El Dorado.
Services were held September 2nd in the Potwin Methodist Church, the Rev. C. M. Nutter, staff member of the El Dorado Methodist Church, and the Rev. Gary Clark, pastor of the Potwin Methodist church officiating. Interment was in McGill Cemetery. The Lamb Mortuary was in charge. (El Dorado Times, September 9, 1965)
Funeral services for Floyd Snodgrass, 12 year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. A. S. snodgrass of Towanda who was accidentally shot by his younger brother, Edward, while target practicing near their home in Towanda, Saturday, January 14 were held Monday afternoon at the Mooney Memorial Church in Towanda with Rev. R. L. Hendrickson and Rev. Paulen officiating at the services.
A quartette sang three selections. Pallbearers were classmates of the youth. The students of the school the boy attended were present in a body. They were deeply grieved at the loss of their friend.
Floyd was born April 23, 1920 in Towanda and was well known in that community. He is survived by his parents, four brothers and four sisters. The Alderson Mortuary was in charge.(The Butler County News, January 20, 1933)
E. O. (Gene) Swallow, 202 Joyce avenue, Orange, Texas, a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. M. O. Swallow and a brother of Mrs. Nell Wilson, 516 North Topeka street, El Dorado, died August 7th in a hospital at Orange. He had resided in that city the past fifteen years.
Mr. Swallow who had been critically ill since November, lived in El Dorado as a body. The Swallow home was at 811 West Central Avenue.
A member of the Methodist Church. Mr. Swallow was a 32nd degree Mason and belonged to the Shrine. In addition to Mrs. Wilson, he is survived by his wife, Eurica.
Mrs. Wilson has visited at the home of her brother recently. She and her son, James A. Wilson II and Mrs. Wilson and Jimmy, Tom and Jon of Iola, motored to Texas to attend the funeral services held August 10th in the Methodist Church at Albany. (El Dorado Times, August 19, 1965)
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