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Alan Overton was born February 22nd, 1944 in Colby, KS to Arlie & Maudie Overton. He went to be with the Lord Sunday April 18th, 2021. He was one of three children, having an older brother, Charles, and two sisters, Carol, and Helen. Growing up his time was spent in Colby working on the family farm and the Mattress manufacturing shop that his dad and mom started and operated. At a very early age, 13 years old, he had a large part of the responsibility on the farm near Studley, KS. He would tell stories of staying home and finishing the farming responsibilities while his Dad and Mom would load up the camper along with his sisters and make a journey to Port Isabel, Texas each winter where his dad had Snapper boats and a commercial fishing business fishing for Red Snapper. He would finish up the farming responsibilities and drive, at that young age for the first time, a 1949 Chevy pickup from Colby, KS to Port Isabel, Texas to join his Dad working on the snapper boats. He would enroll each winter in school in South Texas and loved to talk about how much he enjoyed doing that and how much he looked forward to it each year.

Alan met Mary Wolf and they joined in Marriage on August 16 1965 in Colby, KS. Soon after on June 6th, 1966 they had their first daughter, Brenda, then four more children over the course of the next 20 years, Arlie, 1967, Cathy, 1971. Keith, 1973, and A.J., 1986.

While he started out farming and receiving, the Young Farmer of the year award in Studley, KS for his skills and talents and his love of farming and ranching, He and Mary made the decision to move to Newton, KS soon after His first daughter was born and he took a management job for Hurst Manufacturing, an egg processing facility. It wasn’t long before they left Newton and that career to go back to his love of farming and ranching, moving to Potwin, KS and working for a large farmer.

For the largest part of his life he was self- employed, owning a television and appliance sales and repair business in whitewater, KS from 1973 to 1986. While farming long days on the farm near Potwin, he began night school with Bell and Howell learning the trade of repairing Television’s and radio’s. He received his certificate of completion and in 1973 and they moved the family to whitewater to open his business, “Alan’s T.V. and Appliance that he and Mary operated until 1986.

It was never all about work! His greatest joy was spending time with his family, which included camping, fishing and sports. He spent countless hours teaching and coaching each of his kids his favorite sport of baseball and softball. He was also committed to the kids in the community coaching and being involved for many years in the programs supporting youth. It wasn’t just baseball and softball, he also coached a few of his kids in basketball. As his children got older and began playing sports in school, he rarely missed a game. He was asked by one of his sons once why he made such a commitment to make every game. He said growing up, that his own dad worked hard and didn’t place an importance on coming to his games when he grew up. He wanted his kids to know they were important and wanted them to see him in the stands each time they went onto the field or the court. He and Mary were always there cheering them on and then continuing long cheerful conversations replaying every play after the game.

Come Friday’s it was time to load up the family camper and head to Marion Reservoir camping and fishing for the weekend. He spent hours teaching his kids, with patience, how to build a campfire, how to string a hook, how to catch a fish and take it off the hook. He stopped at nothing, until it came to eating the fish, He didn’t enjoy eating freshwater fish so neighbors back home received a lot of the catch, which was perfect, as he loved to give and they loved to receive.

Alan did many things for careers throughout his life. He finished with owning a semi-truck and hauling groceries over several states, then opening a small fruit stand outside of Newton, KS along with his wife Mary. He made many trips to south Texas getting pottery and fruit to stock their store. He loved visiting with all the customers that came into the store, developing close relationships with many of them.

After a short time in that business his wife became ill. At this time he became fully committed to taking care of Mary leaving the business behind. He never left her side for the duration of her illness. He and Mary spent nearly fifty years in a committed marriage to each other on this earth. He showed his commitment of his marriage vow to her of which he took to heart and lived it out. If you were to ask him what his greatest earthly love was, he would always answer the same; his wife and his children, his grandchildren, he loved his family, and they always came first. He cherished every moment and was happiest when he was around family whether at home, on the ball field, the court, the lake or the ocean. It is worth mentioning that he loved Bologna sandwiches with onions no matter what time of day it was, teaching many of his grandchildren and children how to make them and love them also. Alan loved the Lord showing that love through his actions and how he treated others. Alan will be missed by friends and family of whom he touched so dearly with his kind, gentle, patient loving heart.

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Overton, Alan

Life Sketch


Owner/SourceHarvey County Genealogical Society
DateApr 2021
Linked toAlan Eugene Overton

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