June 25, 2003 The ADVOCATE Serving Anderson, Southern Franklin and Western Linn Counties Volume 7, No. 51 Transcribed with permission of Vern Brown Page 5, Column 2: “Robert M. Kite 1926-2003 Memorial services for Robert M. Kite, 76, Garnett, are Thursday, June 26, 2003, at 1:00 p.m. at United Methodist Church, Garnett. Inurnment is in Garnett Cemetery. The family will receive friends on Wednesday, June 25, from 7:00-8:00 p.m. at the Farris-Feuerborn Memorial Chapel.” “W. Bruce Ewbank 1932-2003 Memorial services for W. Bruce Ewbank, 70, Morehead City, NC, were Thursday, May 29, 2003, at Unitarian Coastal Fellowship, Morehead City. Mr. Ewbank died Saturday, May 24, at his home. W. Bruce Ewbank was born September 21, 1932, at Olivet, KS, the son of Oliver and Leone Ewbank. He graduated from Garnett High School with the Class of 1950 and attended the University of Kansas as a Summerfield Scholar. He graduated from KU in 1954 and received his doctorate in nuclear physics from the University of California, Berkley, in 1960. Bruce and his wife, Happy, were married on June 28, 1957. They moved to Oak Ridge, TN, in 1964, where he began his thirty-year career at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He worked with the nuclear data project and then the information division, retiring in 1995. During his retirement, he enjoyed having more time to pursue his many hobbies, including genealogy, computers, photography, sailing, gardening, and traveling. After thirty-seven years in Oak Ridge, the Ewbanks moved to Morehead City in January, 2001. He was honored as the Volunteer of the Month for December 2002, for his photography project which documented many of downtown Morehead City’s historic homes and businesses. He assembled the homes on a disk entitles ‘Historic Homes and Buildings of Morehead City, N.C.’ for the Downtown Morehead City Revitalization Association. Mr. Ewbank was a member of the Unitarian Coastal Fellowship, Friends of Fort Macon, History Place, and the Crystal Coast Choral Society, all of Morehead City, and the United Church Chapel on the Hill, Oak Ridge, TN. Mr. Ewbank was preceded in death by his parents, Oliver and Leone Ewbank; an infant sister, Lorna Carol; his sister, Lorene Anne Roeckers; and his brother, John D. Ewbank. Bruce is survived by his wife, Happy; his sons, Bryan Ewbank and his wife, Sheila, Raleigh, NC, and Kevin Ewbank and his wife, Kimbra, Oglesdy, IL; his sisters, Margery Hunt and her husband, Clarence, Garnett, and Mary Seward; his brothers, Russell Ewbank and Jim Ewbank and his wife, Norma; and his beloved grandchildren, Kelli, Heather, Melinda, and David. Memorial contributions are suggested to Unitarian Coastal Fellowship, 1300 Evans Street, Morehead City, NC 28557; United Church, Chapel on the Hill, 85 Kentucky Avenue, Oak Ridge, TN 37830; Crystal Coast Choral Society, P.O. Box 1954, Swansboro, NC 28584; Hospice of Carteret County, P.O. Box 1619, Morehead City, NC 28557; or to the charity of one’s choice. Munden Funeral Home and Crematory, Inc., Morehead City, NC, was in charge of arrangements.” Page 5, Column 3: “Ulysses E. ‘Ulis’ Tucker, Sr. 1912-2003 Funeral services for Ulysses E. ‘Ulis’ Tucker, Sr., 91, Welda, KS, are Wednesday, June 25, 2003, at 10:30 a.m. at Farris-Feuerborn Memorial Chapel, Garnett, with Mr. Tucker’s brother, Rev. Raymond Tucker, officiating. Interment is in Welda Cemetery. Mr. Tucker died Tuesday, June 17, at his home. Ulysses E. Tucker was born February 1, 1912, at Taft, MO, the oldest of thirteen children born to Edward Ethel and Anne (Lynn) Tucker. After graduating from high school in Burlington, CO, in 1931, Ulis was united in marriage to Alice Louise Curry on August 25, 1932, at Kansas City, KS. This union was blessed with two children. Ulis owned several businesses throughout his life, including a retail and auction business. He was also a sewer contractor, a real estate broker, and was a truck farmer, who was also engaged in other types of farming. He worked at the Anderson County Sale Barn for twenty years weighing cattle, where he enjoyed visiting with his friends and neighbors every week. He loved fishing, hunting, music, and singing, and his grandchildren. Ulis was compassionate, always loved to give and would help anyone in need. He never failed to tell his family how proud he was of them and how lucky he was to live long enough to know his great-grandchildren. In his later years, he performed at several local country music shows. He moved to Welda in 1970 from Weaubleau, MO, where he had lived since 1965. Prior to that he had lived in Overland Park and the Kansas City area for twenty years. Mr. Tucker was preceded in death by his wife, Alice Louise (Curry) Tucker, on December 14, 1999; his parents, Edward Ethel and Ann (Lynn) Tucker; one granddaughter, Laura Lea Crider; one great-granddaughter, Lauren Nicole Winters; a great-great-granddaughter, Amber Nicole Miller Evans; two sisters, Darlene Semans and Hazel Hisel; a brother, Leroy Tucker; three infant sisters and one infant brother. Ulis is survived by his daughter, Doris Louise Bunch and her husband, James L., Mound City, KS; his son, Ulis Erwin Tucker, Jr. and his wife, Joy, Welda, KS; five brothers, Richard Tucker, California, Raymond Tucker, Oregon, Albert Tucker, Weaubleau, MO, Bob Tucker, Boise, ID, and William Tucker, Los Angeles, CA. In addition to raising their two children, Ulis and Alice raised three grandchildren James Erwin Crider, Garnett, Marla Jean Drais, Salt Lake City, UT, and Jessica Louise Phifer, Jefferson City, MO, who survive him, as well as eight other grandchildren, twenty-six great-grandchildren, and sixteen great-great-grandchildren. The family received friends on Tuesday, June 24, from 7:00-8:00 p.m. at the funeral home. Memorial contributions may be made to Midland Hospice, Ottawa, KS, which may be left in care of the funeral home. Farris-Feuerborn Memorial Chapel is in charge of arrangements.” Transcribed for Anderson County Kansas USGENWEB By: Lulu B. Nixon