James Clare Kreider

Mr. Kreider died Thursday, Aug. 1, 2002, at Providence Medical Center, Kansas City, Kan.

He was born Dec. 11, 1925, in Kansas City, Kan., the son of Clare Samuel and Sara Ella (Brass) Kreider. He lived for 67 years in the Loring area until 1992, when he moved to the Wolcott area and raised cattle. He was also a member of the board of directors at Commercial State Bank of Bonner Springs since 1955.

In the 1970s Mr. Kreider received the Kansas Wildlife Federation Award for a lagoon system to catch runoff from feedlots, which prevented pollution in the Kansas River. Since 1974 he had served on Wyandotte County Farm Bureau, two years on Kansas State Marketing Committee and State Resolutions Committee. Until early this year he was a delegate to the State Convention. In the 1980s he was vice chairman of the board of supervisors of the Wyandotte County Soil Conservation and received two awards for soil conservation and creating a wildlife habitat.

After moving to the Leavenworth County area, he served as chairman of Kansas Association of Conservation Districts Community Committee, director for Operation Wildlife, and was a member of Greater Kansas City Chapter of Ducks Unlimited, where he received a Conservation Service Award.

He was a member of board of governors with the National Agriculture Center and Hall of Fame and First Christian Church, Bonner Springs, where he was a trustee. He also established a scholarship fund for graduates of Bonner Springs High School, which will award scholarships to deserving seniors for the next 20 years. He was elected to board of trustees of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and raised more than $50,000 toward the cure of leukemia. He raised more than anyone else in the United States and received the “Man of the Year” award.

Mr. Kreider married Peggy Tarry in 1949. She died in March 1997. He married Dixie Schowengerdt in April 1998. She survives of the home.

Other survivors include a son, James C. II, Bonner Springs; two daughters, Connie S. Djajich, Olathe, and Julie K. Shibler, St. Marys; a brother, Hayden Wood, Berryton; seven step-children; 25 grandchildren; and a great-grandson.

The family will receive friends from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Monday at Alden-Harrington Funeral Home, Bonner Springs.

The family suggests memorials to the church, 148 N. Nettleton, Bonner Springs 66012.