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ACKLEY, SHIRLEY E.
Ackley, Shirley E., 60, Haysville Middle School cook, died Friday, Dec. 25, 1992. Services 10 a.m. Wednesday, Smith Mortuary; 2 p.m. Fairview Park Cemetery, St. John.
Survivors: husband, Millard; sons, Kenneth M. of McAllen, Texas, Steven R. of Stillwater, Okla.; brother, Clarence Boyd, sister, Onita Neil, both of Southington, Ohio. (Wichita Eagle, December 28, 1992)

CAIN, ROZELLA MAURINE "PAT"
Cain, Rozella Maurine "Pat," 86, Cain Peach Orchard owner and operator, died Sunday, March 24, 2002. Visitation 4 to 8 p.m. today, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday, both at Smith Mortuary; service 11 a.m. Friday, Haysville United Methodist Church.
Mrs. Cain was born Nov. 25, 1915 in Emporia, to the late Clara A. (Yager) and Lester L. Johnson. She graduated from Hamilton Junior High School and Wichita High School North.
On Nov. 24, 1934 she married Wayne R. Cain in Wichita and spent most of their married life in the Haysville area. They celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in 1984.
She was a member of Haysville United Methodist Church and GGW Club of Wichita.
Preceded in death by husband, Wayne R. Cain and brother, Ronald Ray Johnson.
Survivors: sons and daughters-in-law, Larry and Lois Cain of Yukon, Okla., Jerry and Karen Cain of Haysville, Ronald and Diana Cain of Wichita; daughter and son-in-law, Susan and Frank Vonderwall of Haysville; sister, Roseva Swan of Derby; 11 grandchildren; two step-grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; four step-great-grandchildren. Memorials established with Haysville United Methodist Church and SCCS Home Health and Hospice, Derby. (Wichita Eagle, March 27, 2002)

CAIN, VERNON JACK
Cain, Vernon Jack, 69, retired self-employed masonry contractor and retired Air Force Flying Tigers tailgunner, died Saturday, Sept. 19, 1992. Service 10 a.m. Wednesday, Town & Country Christian Church.
Survivors: wife, Virginia Lee; son, Travis of Wichita; daughter, Nancy Sommers of Minot, N.D.; brother, Eddy of Wichita; half-brother, Howard Marshall of Tulsa; five grandchildren. Memorial has been established with American Heart Association. Downing & Lahey Mortuary. (Wichita Eagle, September 22, 1992)

CAIN, WAYNE R.
Wayne R. Cain, who was born in Haysville and spent most of his 77 years bettering the community, died Monday of a stroke at St. Francis Regional Medical Center.
''He loved to sit and talk about the early days of Haysville growing up as a boy, going to the old schools and stuff," said his son, Ron Cain. ''He told about the building of Broadway, of Highway 81. . . . He'd tell about the crews coming out and he was a little boy sitting out watching them."
At that time, he lived on the family homestead settled by his grandfather. When he grew up, Mr. Cain had to move the house because it was in the way of widening that very road. It was a project he supported to help growth in Haysville.
That was just one of Mr. Cain's pet projects in the community. He also supported the building of the Haysville-Derby Turnpike exchange. He served on the City Council for 10 years and on the Planning Commission for four years.
He was the first president of the Parent Teacher Association in USD 261. He was also active in the Haysville Lions Club, the Haysville Masonic Lodge and the Haysville United Methodist Church.
''He prided himself on being an honest, hard-working person. He would do about anything at all for you. If the family or a friend needed some help, well, he was there," his son said. "He helped us get started when we got married. He's helped all his kids that way, even the grandchildren. Nothing was too good for his family."
Mr. Cain graduated from Wichita East High School. He married his wife, Pat, in 1934. Later in that decade, he worked on the dam at Lake Afton with the Sedgwick County engineers. From 1941 to 1947, he worked with the Army Corps of Engineers in Kansas and Oklahoma.
It was in 1947 that he returned to Haysville and began farming wheat. Two years later he and his father began planting peach trees on what would become Cain Orchard. That location and one in Mulvane would later grow to 400 acres. In 1960, he and his family opened Orchard Lanes, now called Haysville Bowl. He and his wife also bought a company that became Cain Implement.
Cain later became a land developer. By the mid-'70s, his four children had decided they did not want to take over the family farm, so he began developing parts of the property.
When Mr. Cain retired from farming in 1981, he continued his interest in land developing, but focused most of his energy on his passion: genealogy. He was a member of the Midwest Historical Genealogical Society and the Sons of the American Revolution.
In 1986, he co-wrote a book "The Descendants of Nichlas Cain," which was a story about a European ancestor who settled in America in the 1700s. He was working on an autobiography at the time of his death.
He will be buried with his grandfather and his great-grandfather at the Fairview Cemetery, which used to be on Cain family land.
In addition to his wife and son, Mr. Cain is survived by sons Larry Cain of Yukon, Okla., and Jerry Cain of Haysville; a daughter, Susan Vonderwall of Haysville; a brother, Dale Cain of White Bear Lake, Minn.; three sisters, Esther Dahlberg of Mesa, Ariz., Louise Eberhard of Whitewater and Norma Peters of Wellington; 13 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Haysville United Methodist Church. (Wichita Eagle, October 13, 1992)

DUNCAN, KENNETH LEE
Duncan, Kenneth Lee, 60, formerly of Kechi, farmer and truck driver, died Sunday, May 18, 1997. Service was Wednesday.
Survivors: wife, Shirley; sons, Craig of Valley Center, Joshua at home; daughters, Teresa Russell of Wichita, Kathleen Wiechman of Valley Center; mother, Vera Berry of Wichita; sisters, Eleanor Young of Wisconsin, Marjorie Purkey of Valley Center; six grandchildren. Memorial has been established with the American Diabetes Association. Baker Funeral Home, Valley Center. (Wichita Eagle, May 23, 1997)

FOREMAN, CLYDE M.
Foreman, Clyde M. 79, died Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2004. Funeral services will be 1 PM Saturday at Lakeview Funeral Home. Burial at Fairview Cemetery. He served in the U.S. Navy and was a machine operator at Coleman. His parents, Stuart & Mae Foreman and two brothers, Albert & Edgar Foreman preceded him in death. Survivors include daughters, Lisa Smith and husband Matthew of Derby, Lori Skaggs of Wichita, sister, Maxine Corfman of Newton, nephew, Gary Foreman of Ponca City, OK, niece, Sandy Qamar of Newton, grandchildren, Brandon & Nicole Stegman, Kayla, Hannah, MacKenzie and Dalton Smith, Dylan Skaggs, Emma Smith and great grandson, Jay Alan Wasinger. (Wichita Eagle, February 6, 2004)

HARMON, MALEAH
Quiet, easygoing Maleah Harmon never liked to draw attention to herself. But her character and talent made her impossible to ignore.
The youngest member of a music-loving family, Maleah dreamed of becoming a professional trumpet player for a symphony and a university music professor.
No one doubts she would have achieved her goals if she had had the chance.
"She didn't start something and never finish it," Jerusha Willenborg said of her sister.
But Maleah was killed in an automobile accident as she was driving home Sunday night from a five-week summer camp for orchestra musicians. She was 20, and about to enter her senior year at Wichita State University.
The family is planning to establish a scholarship presented annually in Maleah's memory to a West High graduate who intends to major in music at WSU; the university has established a memorial in its School of Music Scholarship Fund.
Maleah was talking to her sister Alaina on a cell phone when the crash happened at 11:08 p.m. near Forrest City, Ark.
"I had told her many times that she was my idol and I looked up to her because of her example," said her mother, Deborah. "I didn't realize just how amazing she was until I was talking to other people.
"She even had to pencil me in to come over and visit. Now I know why, and I'm so thankful that she had the foresight to be so busy and to touch so many lives and to be the woman she was. She got more done in this lifetime than I think I've been able to accomplish, and I'm going to be 50 in February."
Siblings described Maleah as a sponge.
"She just assumed that everyone knew more than her, or she had something to learn from everyone she was around," said her brother Michael.
The truth, her family said, is that everyone could take a page from how Maleah lived. She was a gifted musician and co-valedictorian of the West High School Class of 2000, but she never took the easy way.
"She worked so hard at everything," her mother said. "She worked so hard at music, she worked so hard at school. She would be working on her horn, or her school work, until I'd have to say, 'Stop doing your homework and go to bed.'
"Never once in her life did I have to make her do what she was supposed to do. She was so self-motivated."
Willenborg said she never walked into the house and found her sister watching television.
"She was either studying or reading Scriptures or playing her trumpet," she said.
Maleah's faith was the most important part of her life, and looking back her family now believes God was preparing them for her death.
All five of her siblings had unexpected opportunities to chat with her while she was at music camp, and in going through her things after she died, they found letters she had written to family members in 1999 but never found time to mail.
The letters are particularly poignant now, Willenborg said. In one letter to a brother, she wrote, "I'm going to miss you when I'm gone, if I get to go."
After Deborah Harmon left a tearful phone message telling Maleah how much she missed her while she was away at camp, Maleah wrote in the next letter, "I hope you don't miss me too much."
"She never says that," Deborah Harmon said. "The Lord was preparing us."
The procession to the cemetery after Maleah's funeral Thursday was two miles long, and family members were well aware that many a delayed motorist was likely annoyed.
"That's probably the first time in Maleah's life that she ever ticked anybody off," Willenborg said. "We just laughed at that." (Wichita Eagle, August 9, 2003)

SPACKMAN, WAYNE C.
Spackman, Wayne C, born Jan. 11, 1929 in Lewiston, UT, died March 2, 2004. He left in 1949 to 1951 on a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He served most of his time in Wichita, KS where he came to love the area and people. He never returned to live in Utah. Services 12pm March 8, 2004, Church of Jesus Christ of LDS, Valley Center, 528 W. 5th St. In lieu of flowers, memorials to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for the Perpetual Education Fund in c/o Bishop Van Bohman, 6100 E. Rambling Rose, Valley Center, KS 67147(Wichita Eagle, March 3, 2004)

TERHUNE, BARBARA
ANDOVER - Terhune, Barbara I., 78, retired ARA Services at Raytheon, died Wednesday, April 21, 2004. Service 11:00 A.M., Saturday, Downing & Lahey Mortuary East.
Survivors: daughters and son-in-law, Debbie and Mark Ward and Gayla Shackelford, all of Andover, KS; grandchildren, Cory Shackelford of Indianap olis, IN, Quentin Shackelford, Natalie Harrison and Joshua Ward, all of Andover, KS. A memorial has been established with American Lung Association of Kansas, 4300 S. W. Drury Lane, Topeka, KS, 66604. (Wichita Eagle, April 24, 2004)