LEONARD R. WILLHITE, 68, of El Dorado, retired farmer and mechanic, died Tuesday. Service 10 a.m. Friday, Carlson Funeral Home.
Survivors: wife, Dorothy; sons, E. Wayne of Howard, Gary Dean of El Dorado; brother, Ellsworth of Leon; sisters, Genevieve Seals of Augusta, Effie Baade of Temperance, Mich., Muriel Mae Whiteside of Towanda, Peggy Lou Douthitt of Grandville, Mich.; three grandsons. Memorial has been established with the El Dorado First United Methodist Church.
Sources
↑ Wichita Eagle, The (KS) - Wednesday, August 7, 1985
"United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MX2C-1DR : accessed 5 April 2019), Leonard R Willhite in household of Arvin R Willhite, Silver Cliff, Custer, Colorado, United States; citing ED 50, sheet 7A, line 7, family 3, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 157; FHL microfilm 1,820,157.
"United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X73V-C1X : accessed 5 April 2019), Leanod R Willhite in household of Arvin A Willhite, Rosalia, Butler, Kansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 42, sheet 4A, line 44, family 83, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 695; FHL microfilm 2,340,430.
"United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VRV2-HGX : 14 March 2018), Leonard Willhite in household of A R Willhite, Rosalia, Rosalia Township, Butler, Kansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 8-42, sheet 7A, line 10, family 146, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 1222.
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