DE LONG, Wendall D. "Red" - d. December 11, 2008

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Wendell and Alice were our neighbors, in Howard,  when we were first married and we had a lot of fun playing cards and getting together. Wendall was the Highway Patrolman stationed out of Howard for several years. Wendall came to Pratt and went Pheasant Hunting with me one year. A really nice family.
Frank

Wendall D. "Red" DeLong   
YATES CENTER - DeLong, Wendall D. "Red," 79, died Thursday, Dec. 11, 2008. Funeral services 1:30 p.m. today, Campbell Funeral Home; interment in Graceland Cemetery, Burlington, Kan., with Masonic Services and the Kansas Highway Patrol Honor Guard. Red grew up in Coffey County and graduated from Strawn High School in 1947. In 1956, he went to work for the Kansas Highway Patrol as a trooper and retired in 1981. In 1981, he became under sheriff of Woodson County and held that position until 1984, when he became sheriff and held that position until 1987. He then became Kansas Lottery District Manager until 1988. In 1988 he worked for the Kansas Fire Marshall Dept. until his retirement in 1995. He was a 50 year member of Gilead Masonic Lodge and a member of the Order of the Eastern Star and Christian Church, all of Yates Center.

Survivors: wife, Alice; sons, William D. and wife, Rita of Wichita, Roger M. and wife, Debra of Valley Center; daughters, Ava and husband, Ted Farid of Wichita, Linda and husband, Duane Ohmie of Yates Center; brother, Merle of Topeka; sisters, Mary Lou Atherly of Topeka, Hazel Lynn of Aurora, Colo.; grandchildren, Dawn Spencer, Krista Ohmie, Heather Leiss, Rebecca Milburn, Wesley DeLong, Bryan DeLong, Brock DeLong, Brandon Ohmie; 6 grandchildren. Wendall was preceded in death by brothers, Lester, Roy; sisters, Bertha, Laura and granddaughter, Amber Spencer on June 15, 2008.

Memorials may be made to C.A.S.A. Association in c/o Campbell Funeral Home, PO Box 188, Yates Center, KS 66783. 

Published in the Wichita Eagle on 12/13/2008


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