Marlin D. Kimball

Ottawa — A service of remembrance for Marlin D. Kimball, 75, Ottawa, will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at First Baptist Church in Ottawa, with the Rev. Joel Fredrickson officiating. Private family inurnment will be in Highland Cemetery at a later date.Mr. Kimball died Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2008, at Ransom Memorial Hospital in Ottawa.He was born Aug. 6, 1933, in Ottawa, the son of Laurence and Eunice Beller Kimball. He grew up and attended school in Ottawa, graduating from Ottawa High School in 1952. He received a Bachelor of Arts in education from Ottawa University in 1957. He earned a master’s degree in education administration from Emporia State University.Mr. Kimball was a sixth-grade teacher at Hawthorne Elementary School in Ottawa for 10 years. He was the principal at Lincoln Elementary School in Ottawa from 1967 to 1995. From the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s, he owned and operated the Burgerteria in Ottawa. He was a longtime member of First Baptist Church in Ottawa and was a member of United School Administrators and Ottawa Rotary Club. He served on the Ottawa school board and was a member of the Ottawa University Alumni Association board from 1982 to 1986.Mr. Kimball enjoyed playing cards with his pitch and bridge clubs. He also enjoyed gardening and selling produce to local grocery stores and the farmers’ market from 1973 to 2007.He married Betty Kerr on April 6, 1955. They shared more than 34 years of marriage. She preceded him in death on Oct. 29, 1989. He married Sandra Barnett in January 1990 in Miami, Okla. They shared more than 18 years of marriage. She survives, of the home.Other survivors include a son, Kevin and wife Terri, Richmond; a daughter, Dr. Joy Murphy and husband Scott, Lawrence; two stepdaughters, Jodie Leiss and husband Damon, Emporia, and Shelly Graham and husband Larry, Huntsville, Ala.; two sisters, Dorothy Cole, Ottawa, and Delores Wagner, Colorado Springs, Colo.; a brother, Cecil, Oberlin; and 12 grandchildren, Alex and Whitney Kimball, Ian and Claire Murphy, Jessica, Gavin, Rachel and Austin Leiss, and Ariel, Josiah, Terah and John Paul Graham.Mr. Kimball also was preceded in death by his parents; a son, Eddie; a daughter, Donna Kimball; and three brothers, Robert, Marvin and Wilbur.The family will receive friends from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday at Lamb-Roberts Funeral Home in Ottawa.The family suggests memorials to the church or the Ottawa Optimist Club’s Eddie Kimball Education Scholarship Fund, sent in care of the funeral home, P.O. Box 14, Ottawa, KS 66067.Online condolences may be sent at lamb-roberts.com.