LANNING, Paula Beryl (Smith) - b. December 6, 1938 - d. July 3, 2002

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Winfield Daily Courier
July 6, 2002


HOWARD--  Paula Beryl Lanning, 63, of Howard, died July 3, 2002, at Wesley Medical Center in Wichita.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday at Zimmerman Funeral Home.  Pastor Robin Haines will officiate.   Burial will be in Cresco cemetery, north of Howard.

A memorial has been established with Greenwood County Hospital in Eureka.  Contributions may be left at the funeral home.

Lanning was born Dec. 6, 1938, in Howard to Pauline (Corbin) and Kenneth Owen Smith.  She graduated from Howard High School in 1957.

On Aug. 9, 1975, she married Billy Eugene Lanning Sr. in Miami, Okla., and they made their home in Howard.

A homemaker, Lanning was employed as a waitress during most of her life.

Survivors include her husband, Bill Lanning, and a daughter, Brandy Lanning both of Howard; a son, Lonnie Smith, Wichita, five step-sons, Billy Lanning, Jr., Howard, Richard Lanning, Liberal, Robert Lanning, Hays, David Lanning, Cherryvale and Keith Lanning, Independence, two brothers, Ron Smith, Haysville, and Don Smith, Wichita, two grandchildren, nine step-grandchildren and eight step-great-grandchildren.