Hutchinson News, (Mar/14/2007), Hutchinson, Kansas
LIBERAL - Okey Amos, 96, died March 11, 2007, at Columbia (Mo.) Regional Hospital.
He was born Sept. 19, 1910, in Richwood, W.Va., the son of Riley and Rosa Koontz Amos. A resident of Liberal since 1941, formerly of Beaver, Okla., he was a maintenance mechanic for Panhandle Eastern, retiring after 25 years.
He attended New Hope Church of God and was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and past member of Elks Lodge and Moose Lodge. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II.
On Sept. 5, 1931, he married Ruby Jewell Wilson. She died Dec. 12, 1999.
Survivors include: two sons, Randolph "Ray," El Dorado Hills, Calif. and Gary, Dothan, Ala.; three daughters, Betty Jean Giffen, Windsor, Mo., Carolyn Plunk, Warsaw, Mo., and Shirley Greenwald, Alamota; a brother, Ray, Springfield, Mo.; 10 grandchildren; and several great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by a son, Wesley Amos; four brothers, Lester, Emery, Russell and Glenn Amos; and two sisters, Pearl Greer and an infant sister.
Funeral will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Kitch-Brenneman Funeral Home, Liberal, with the Rev. Larry McCall presiding. Visitation is from 1 to 8 p.m. Friday at the funeral home. Burial will be in Restlawn Cemetery.
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LIBERAL - Okey Amos, 96, died March 11, 2007, at Columbia (Mo.) Regional Hospital.
He was born Sept. 19, 1910, in Richwood, W.Va., the son of Riley and Rosa Koontz Amos. A resident of Liberal since 1941, formerly of Beaver, Okla., he was a maintenance mechanic for Panhandle Eastern, retiring after 25 years.
He attended New Hope Church of God and was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and past member of Elks Lodge and Moose Lodge. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II.
On Sept. 5, 1931, he married Ruby Jewell Wilson. She died Dec. 12, 1999.
Survivors include: two sons, Randolph "Ray," El Dorado Hills, Calif. and Gary, Dothan, Ala.; three daughters, Betty Jean Giffen, Windsor, Mo., Carolyn Plunk, Warsaw, Mo., and Shirley Greenwald, Alamota; a brother, Ray, Springfield, Mo.; 10 grandchildren; and several great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by a son, Wesley Amos; four brothers, Lester, Emery, Russell and Glenn Amos; and two sisters, Pearl Greer and an infant sister.
Funeral will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Kitch-Brenneman Funeral Home, Liberal, with the Rev. Larry McCall presiding. Visitation is from 1 to 8 p.m. Friday at the funeral home. Burial will be in Restlawn Cemetery.
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Hutchinson News, (Mar/14/2007), Hutchinson, Kansas
LIBERAL - Okey Amos, 96, died March 11, 2007, at Columbia (Mo.) Regional Hospital.
He was born Sept. 19, 1910, in Richwood, W.Va., the son of Riley and Rosa Koontz Amos. A resident of Liberal since 1941, formerly of Beaver, Okla., he was a maintenance mechanic for Panhandle Eastern, retiring after 25 years.
He attended New Hope Church of God and was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and past member of Elks Lodge and Moose Lodge. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II.
On Sept. 5, 1931, he married Ruby Jewell Wilson. She died Dec. 12, 1999.
Survivors include: two sons, Randolph "Ray," El Dorado Hills, Calif. and Gary, Dothan, Ala.; three daughters, Betty Jean Giffen, Windsor, Mo., Carolyn Plunk, Warsaw, Mo., and Shirley Greenwald, Alamota; a brother, Ray, Springfield, Mo.; 10 grandchildren; and several great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by a son, Wesley Amos; four brothers, Lester, Emery, Russell and Glenn Amos; and two sisters, Pearl Greer and an infant sister.
Funeral will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Kitch-Brenneman Funeral Home, Liberal, with the Rev. Larry McCall presiding. Visitation is from 1 to 8 p.m. Friday at the funeral home. Burial will be in Restlawn Cemetery.
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LIBERAL - Okey Amos, 96, died March 11, 2007, at Columbia (Mo.) Regional Hospital.
He was born Sept. 19, 1910, in Richwood, W.Va., the son of Riley and Rosa Koontz Amos. A resident of Liberal since 1941, formerly of Beaver, Okla., he was a maintenance mechanic for Panhandle Eastern, retiring after 25 years.
He attended New Hope Church of God and was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and past member of Elks Lodge and Moose Lodge. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II.
On Sept. 5, 1931, he married Ruby Jewell Wilson. She died Dec. 12, 1999.
Survivors include: two sons, Randolph "Ray," El Dorado Hills, Calif. and Gary, Dothan, Ala.; three daughters, Betty Jean Giffen, Windsor, Mo., Carolyn Plunk, Warsaw, Mo., and Shirley Greenwald, Alamota; a brother, Ray, Springfield, Mo.; 10 grandchildren; and several great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by a son, Wesley Amos; four brothers, Lester, Emery, Russell and Glenn Amos; and two sisters, Pearl Greer and an infant sister.
Funeral will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Kitch-Brenneman Funeral Home, Liberal, with the Rev. Larry McCall presiding. Visitation is from 1 to 8 p.m. Friday at the funeral home. Burial will be in Restlawn Cemetery.
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