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Decatur
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Obituaries
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- Obituaries and death notices, especially those written years ago, are not
just a valuable source of names, dates and places for a genealogist. Grouped
together as they are here they become an intimate social history of a
community, written by journalists who usually knew the deceased and their
families.
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- Some are tributes to pioneers, patriarchs, pastors and parents whose life
stories are the history of Decatur County. Others are tender
remembrances of children, women who died in childbirth or those struck down
by disease, unfortunate accidents or natural disasters. There are stories
honoring the supreme acts of sacrifice of local young men and women who died
overseas in distant wars as well as reports of sensational crimes that live
on in story for generations.
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- As a Decatur County researcher this is your chance to contribute to the
history of Decatur County online. Please consider contributing your own
family stories from obituaries and death notices you have of Decatur County
residents.
If you'd like to contribute an obituary or death notice to this page check
out the GUIDELINES at the bottom of this page.
Guidelines for submitting a Decatur County, Kansas
obituary or death notice
Do you have an old obituary or short death notice of a Decatur County
resident tucked away in a scrapbook, trunk or file. Take it out and share it
with the rest of us! Type up your obituary and email it to us and we'll post it
here. Just observe the following guidelines...
To enter your Decatur County obituaries:
1- Email them to me at swurm@direcway.com.
Put Decatur CO OBITUARY in your subject line.
2- On first line put name of deceased. Use the name in the obit. If you
want to rename the individual to clarify who they are add that name in
parenthesis after the obit name. Do this to
include maiden names or full names for individuals given initials only in the
obit.
3-On the second line put the name of the newspaper, newspaper's town,
date of issue where obituary is found, page, column, if known. PLEASE....
Decatur County residents only... A resident is defined here as an individual who
lived in Decatur County for part of his/her life.
4-Type out the obituary.
5-Put "submitted by [your name and email address]" at the end.
If you want to, include your postal address as well.
6- It's ok to edit the obits you submit. If you want to add maiden names,
correct/add dates or other information do so. Just put any added information in
[brackets]. That lets the reader know that this is something not in the original
obituary.
The obituary page was designed by Bill & Diana Sowers.
We appreciate them giving us permission to use their outline. Thanks Bill and Diana for
sharing your wonderful set up.
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copyrighted by Tom & Carolyn Ward for the limited use of the KSGenWeb
Project. Permission is granted for use only on an official KSGenWeb page. USGenWeb
logo was designed by Linda Cole, and the background and Birthday graphic by Kenneth G. Thomas.
©2001-2003 Sharleen
Wurm and Ardie Grimes
This site was established Oct 2001 by Sharleen Wurm and Ardie Grimes
and is dedicated to free access to records, documents and photos of historical
and genealogical value. Documents contained herein may be copied for personal,
non-commercial use as long as this message remains on all copied material.
These records, documents and photos may not be reproduced, published or
re-published for any reason, in any format, including electronic (web
pages or CD's) and print, without prior written consent of the contributors or
copyright holders.
Last updated Monday, October 17, 2005
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