Mr. Locke died Tuesday, March 27, 2001, at a Topeka hospice.
He was born Feb. 24, 1929, in Miller, S.D., the son of Arthur Leslie and Nella Esta (Love) Locke. He graduated from Miller (S.D.) High School in 1947 and moved to Meriden in 1970.
Mr. Locke served in the U.S. Army in Korea from 1951 to 1953. He was a civil engineering technician. He worked for U.S. Geological Survey, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Rapid City, S.D., Grand Forks, N.D., Colorado Springs, Colo., St. Louis, Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., Topeka and Kansas City, Mo. He retired in 1984, and then worked for Kansas Department of Health and Environment, Topeka, until 1994.
Mr. Locke was a member of American Legion Bicentennial Post No. 225, Ozawkie, and was a member and past chaplain of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 10815, Meriden.
He was also a member of Calvary Lutheran Church, Topeka. He was a former Meriden city councilman and a former member of Arab Shrine Temple Patrol Unit.
He married Eunice A. Steffenson on Sept. 25, 1967, in Macon, Mo. She survives of the home.
Other survivors include three sons, William Tackett, Salisbury, Mo., James L. Tackett, Indianapolis, and Robert J. Tackett, Wamego; a daughter, Pamela Locke Shroyer, St. Joseph, Mo.; a brother, Kenneth, St. Lawrence, S.D.; a sister, Norma F. Yerdon, Aberdeen, S.D.; and 11 grandchildren.
The family suggests memorials to Midland Hospice House of Topeka or Calvary Lutheran Church, sent in care of Barnett Funeral Home, P.O. Box 316, Meriden 66512.
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