Edgar Arnold Templeton
Edgar Arnold Templeton, 91, died today
(Sept. 24, 1998) at Newton Presbyterian Manor, where he suffered from
congestive heart disease.
He was born Nov. 4, 1906, on the family
farm in Sycamore Township in Butler County to Robert E. Templeton and
Grace H. (Snoddy) Templeton. He married Edith Evelyn Watson Sept. 1,
1929, in Wichita. She survives of Newton.
He was a graduate of El Dorado High
School and Kansas State University. He taught vocational agriculture
for 10 years in Smith Center, WaKeeney and El Dorado. He established
the F.F.A. chapters at WaKeeney and El Dorado. In August of 1947 he
returned to Butler County and began farming with his brother John.
Edgar retired after 15 years as
maintenance foreman with the Kansas Turnpike Authority, where he
worked at both Cassoday and El Dorado.
He served as President of the Butler
County fair board and as an elder in Presbyterian churches in DeGraff
and El Dorado. He was Sunday School superintendent in DeGraff
Presbyterian Church. After retirement he was active with the Great
Plains Woodcarvers in Wichita and the El Dorado Art Association. He
moved from El Dorado to Newton in October 1991 where he was a member
of First Presbyterian Church.
Other survivors include one son, David
E. Templeton of DeSoto, Texas; one brother, John C. Templeton of El
Dorado; three grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m.
Saturday at Carlson Funeral Home in El Dorado. Burial will be in the
Sunset Lawns Cemetery in El Dorado.
Memorials have been established with
First Presbyterian Church in El Dorado in care of the funeral home.
