Richard L. Kidwell
Services for Richard L. Kidwell, 87, Lawrence, will be at 3 p.m. Friday at Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home. Masonic graveside services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday in Jamestown Cemetery.
Mr. Kidwell died Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2004, at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
He was born July 6, 1916, in Gove County, the son of Christopher Carson and Martha Frances (Rash) Kidwell. He graduated from Jamestown High School.
Mr. Kidwell was a sheet metal mechanic at Boeing in Wichita and taught sheet metal mechanics to prospective employees of the Army Air Corps, with which he served during World War II. After the war he worked for Singer Sewing Machine in Wichita, Coffeyville, Chanute, Emporia, Fort Scott, Pittsburg, Joplin and Lawrence. He also had sold insurance in Chanute, and he sold furniture in Lawrence until his retirement.
He married Irma Leola Gray on Feb. 2, 1937, in Concordia. She died Nov. 12, 1994.
A grandchild also died earlier.
Survivors include a son, Richard D., Broken Arrow, Okla.; three daughters, Joleen Sevart, Wichita, Susan Jordan, Lawrence, and Victoria Martin, Salina; 10 grandchildren; and 15 great-grandchildren.
The family suggests memorials to the Jayhawk Audubon Society or Disabled American Veterans, sent in care of Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home.
Online condolences may be sent at www.rumsey-yost.com.