BOCQUIN, Paul Eugene - b. June 17, 1935 - d. February 10, 2005

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Winfield Courier
Saturday, February 12, 2005

HOWARD-- Paul Eugene Bocquin, 69, longtime resident of Howard, died Feb. 10, 2005, at Harry Hynes Memorial Hospice at Via Christi Regional Medical Center- St. Francis Campus in Wichita.

The Rosary will be said at 7 p.m. Sunday and a Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Monday, both at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Moline.  The Rev. Sixtus YeMyint will officiate.  Burial will be in Mount Olivet Cemetery south of Moline.

A memorial has been established with St. Mary's Alter Society.  Contributions may be left with Zimmerman Funeral Home of Howard.

Bocquin was born June 17, 1935, in Wichita, to Ruth Miriam (Keefe) and Emil Eugene Bocquin.

He graduated from Howard High School and earned a degree in agricultural communications from Kansas State University.  He did postgraduate work at the University of Tulsa, Wichita State University and Washburn University.

A field conservationist for the State Conservation Commission in Topeka, he also served as an information writer for the Kansas Department of Revenue and the Kansas Fish and Game Commission.  Later in life, he was the agricultural manager of Bocquin Associates and Keefe Associated in Elk County.

He had served as the vice president and historian for the Elk County Historical Society and was a charter member of the Elk County Council for Economic Development, serving several years as secretary and publicity director. He encouraged local tourism through the Friends of Elk Falls Association.  Bocquin was a life member of St. Mary's Catholic church and began serving as lector in 1971.

Survivors include a nephew, Kevin Bocquin, St. Joseph, Mo., and a niece, Joan Stephens, Lenexa.