LANNING, Hazel Laura (Van Buskirk) - b. October 25, 1915 - d. October 5, 2005

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Winfield Courier
October 7, 2005

HOWARD--Hazel Laura Lanning, 89, died Oct. 5, 2005, at Greenwod County Hospital in Eureka.

Services will be 11 a.m. Monday at Zimmerman Funeral Home. Pastor Ken Beckner will officiate.  Pastor Lloyd Stewart will read the obituary.  Burial will be in Grace Lawn Cemetery.  A memorial has been established with the Howard Twilight Manor Activity Fund.  Contributions may be left with the funeral home.  Lanning was born Oct. 25, 1915, at Howard, to Ida Belle (Baughman) and John Thomas VanBuskirk.  She attended school and grew up in the Howard community.

She and Eugene Lanning married Feb. 14, 1931, at Howard.  Through their 65 years of marriage, they made their home in Howard.

In addition to being a homemaker, she was employed throughout her life in several occupations.  She worked for the school district as a custodian and cleaned for several retired ladies in the Howard community.

Her husband preceded her in death.

Survivors include four sons, Bill Lanning, Tom Lanning and Larry Lanning, all of Howard, and Terry Lanning, Coffeyville; four daughters, Wanda Clark, Conway Springs, Phyllis Friend, Elk Falls, Mary Wade, Eureka, and Kathy Fouts, Augusta; a sister, Eunice Townsley, Howard; 28 grandchildren, 39 great-grandchildren; 12 great-great grandchildren, eight stepgrandchildren and seven stepgreat-grandchildren.