Donald F. Clement

Services for Donald F. Clement, 73, Lecompton, will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Lawrence. Burial will be in Maple Grove Cemetery, Lecompton.

Mr. Clement died Sunday, March 7, 2004, at his home.

He was born Oct. 15, 1930, in Hiawatha, the son of George William and Mildred Iola Brightwell Clement.

Mr. Clement graduated from Hiawatha High School in 1949. He attended Kansas University on a football scholarship from 1949 to 1952 and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in education. He was a Navy veteran of the Korean War.

Mr. Clement coached football and taught history at Colby High School from 1957 to 1959. He then earned a master’s degree in business administration from KU while working as a dairy farmer north of Lawrence. He lived in San Bernardino, Calif., where he was the county executive for the Easter Seal Society and the state Easter Seal executive for North Dakota, Alaska and Kansas. He also delivered the Kansas City Star in Lawrence from 1987 to 1993. He owned the Beltone Hearing Aid Distributorship from 1993 until he retired in 1999.

After retiring, Mr. Clement and his wife, Dee, served an 18-month mission in Costa Mesa, Calif., for the church. He was Santa Claus for Lawrence businesses for several years.

Mr. Clement was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Lawrence First Ward, where he served as the high priest group leader, Sunday school president, ward clerk and ward missionary. He had been involved in the Family History Center at the church for many years. He was a member of the Veterans of Foreign War post in Ozawkie.

He married Delores “Dee” Ousdahl on June 4, 1957, in Ottawa. She survives, of the home.

Other survivors include five daughters, Karen Sue Talmage, Columbia, Mo., Patty Dawn Criqui and Penny Suzette Hermann, both of Lawrence, Peggy Dee Newby, Auburn, Wash., and Jennifer Marie Manry, Ozawkie; two sons, Scot William and Keith Allen, both of Lecompton; 20 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.

Family will receive friends from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday at Warren-McElwain Mortuary. They suggest memorials to the church missionary fund, sent in care of the mortuary. E-mail condolences may be sent to info@warrenmcelwain.com, subject: Clement.