DELBERT LANDIS MEMORIAL

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Delbert Eugene Landis

1916-2013

Delbert (Deb) Eugene Landis, 97, Wichita, formerly of Fairport went to be with his heavenly father and his bride of nearly 71 years on Monday, October 07, 2013, at the Life Care Center of Wichita.

He was born March 16, 1916, in Rose Hill to David Delta and Alta Mary (Gagan) Landis. His family moved to Fairport, Kansas in 1925 where he attended grade and high school. He was a pumper for Sohio Oil Company (Standard Oil of Ohio) until his retirement in 1975. He was a U.S. Army Veteran serving at the end of WWII and a member of the American Legion.

He married Veta Lorene Robertson on September 7, 1940 and they lived in Fairport until 2002 when they moved to Russell until 2011. They then moved to Wichita to be near their daughter Virginia.
He was preceded in death by his wife of nearly 71 years, Veta, his parents, 4 brothers, Waldo, Francis (Jiggs), Ardine and Russell, one sister Talma. He was also preceded in death by 2 sons, D. Charles and Delmar Landis.

Survivors include his daughter Virginia Maddox and husband Kenneth, Wichita: son Donald Landis, Bethany, OK; three grandsons David Maddox, Dale Maddox and David Landis; one granddaughter Denise Maddox; numerous great-grandchildren and great-great grandchildren and many friends.

Funeral services will be at 10:00 am on Thursday, October 10, 2013 at the Hays Memorial Chapel Funeral Home, 1906 Pine. Burial will be in the Fairport Cemetery, located eleven miles north of Gorham, Kansas. The family will receive friends from 9:30 am until service time on Thursday at the funeral home. Condolences may be left for the family at www.haysmemorial.com

Our hearts and our prayers go out to Don (Class of 1963) and Virginia (Class of 1961). 
This has been such a difficult 2 years for them. 

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HELEN (DODSON) BURGER - CLASS OF 1936

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Helen (Dodson) Burger
was 95

October 5th

 Helen and her youngest daughter on her birthday.
Loa (Copp) Gordon - Loa's grandson, Micah  - Loa's husband, Paul - Loa's son Christopher.
Seated - Helen (Dodson) Burger

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If you would like to send her a card or a letter send it to . . . . .

Helen Burger
1570 S.W. Westport Drive

Apt 606

Topeka, Ks. 66604

 This photo was taken a few months ago.  I have been waiting to get an original photo (since this is a newspaper picture and is fuzzy) but I haven't followed through all my leads to get a picture.

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JEFF HAGERMAN (CLASS OF 1990) IS BACK IN THE USA

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Jeff's homecoming back in the USA.

Sara met him as he got off his plane.
How beautiful! 

Thank You Jeff for serving our country

and

Thank You Lord for bringing him safely home.

 

Jeff went to Gulf Port in Nov. for training (for Afghanistan).  He got to go home for Christmas, but then left again to finish his training at Gulf Port.  He left for Afghanistan in March and has been there all this time.  Over 200 military guys & gals came back to Norfolk at the same time he did. 
Jeff and Sara have 3 boys and this was a busy time for her - being a Mommy and Daddy and keeping up with them.  She seems very efficient and does everything with pride.
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Jeff and Sara have been doing some sight seeing and visiting scenic places.

They had fun at Busch Gardens, had dinner at Captain George's Seafood Restaurant in Virginia Beach with their Uncle Bobby Ross, and at 2:00 pm-10-05-13 they were outside the gates at the White House, with some of his other See Bee buddies, protesting the initial closing of military sites to our American Military. So sad to see that our Military - whom we are so proud of and Thankful for - have NO influence on decisions like that. Our Military are taking out many years of their lives to keep us safe at the same time that our government is acting like a bunch numbskulls.  Shame on them! 

 

 

 

Other posts about Jeff

 

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ROGER PRUTER (CLASS OF 1958)

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Roger is 73 today. 

If you see him or talk to him tell him
Happy Birthday!

 

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CARLA (PHILLIPS) BATT - CLASS OF 1968

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Carla and her beautiful grandchildren.

 

TERRY HOOPES (CLASS OF 1963)

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Terry and his wife Sheila,
with their grandchildren Rachel & Griffin

at a Courtland football game

 

 

Terry and Sheila

Mediterranean Cruise

 

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PARADISE CLASS OF 1986

  Paradise Class of 1986

when they were 7th Graders (1981) 

They were going to school in Paradise (PJH) 

and this was in the

1981 Natoma Tiger Year Book.

 

 

The bottom row names are -

Brad Miller - Sheila Morrill - Cathy Paget - Tony Pfannenstiel 

Scott Pfortmiller - Michele Angel

 

Those from Paradise were:
Brad Miller, Sheila (Morrill) McGuire,

K'Ann (Kraft) Bethal & Michele (Angel) Peterka.

 

When they were in the 3rd grade ↓

 

 

 

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ROUNKLES FAMILY REUNION - LABOR DAY WEEKEND

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Penny (Rounkles) Loker (1964), Marvin Rounkles (1961)

Lois (Rounkles) Bonar (1960) 



Chester and Elsie Rounkles Family Reunion   

Labor Day Weekend, Aug. 30,  31, and Sept. 1, 2013

Hosted by: Marvin Rounkles,  at Swansea, Illinois

Friday night: Supper was at Marvin`s daughters house [Rachelle] then we went to the horse races at Fairmont Horse Races.  Penny said she won $4.00 at the races.  Lois and Penny both gave me information about the reunion but Lois didn't say anything about winning any money.

Saturday: In St. Louis.  We toured the "Arch,"  the "Old Courthouse."  had lunch at the Spaghetti Factory  and toured the Anheuser-Bush  Brewery.  {free beer after the tour}

Sunday:  Marvin cooked out on his "well-used grill".  He cooks out all the time! They were able to meet new relatives and eat a lot of great food.

After a delicious lunch, the kids were busy playing,  adults visiting and we all enjoyed playing our famous card game "Nertz."

 Attending:  Gene and Lois [Rounkles] Bonar, Penny [Rounkles] Loker, Marvin Rounkles

Greg and Olivia Bonar, Mary Bushnell, Rachelle [Rounkles] Hawotte  and Kevin Hawotte and boys - Dylan and Jamison,  Ryan and Maureen Rounkles and girls - Kira and Maya,  Ross and Autumn Rounkles and kids -Tessa, McKenna, Braelyn and baby Landon, Britt and Laura [Rounkles] Balster, Courtney Doole. Angie and Donald D. Vannoy III and Allycia Marie.     

Lois and Penny both are very appreciative Marvin for hosting the reunion and the say - Thank You, Marvin.

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WE SHALL NEVER FORGET 9-11-2001

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Please watch this commercial that Budweiser did after 9/11. They only aired it once so as not to benefit financially from it - they just wanted to acknowledge the tragic event ......

Tribute by Budwiser - 9-11

 

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HELLO TO ROSEMARY (THOMAS) HEINEY STEWART - CLASS OF 1952

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For those in the classes of 1951-52-53 - I thought you would enjoy seeing your classmate

ROSEMARY (THOMAS) STEWART

She is beautiful - inside & outside
We had put a post about Rosemary on the Paradise Blog in Nov. 2009
Click on ↓
Rosemary

 

 

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HAPPY 86TH BIRTHDAY, RUTH BARTLETT

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HAPPY 86th BIRTHDAY, RUTH

Ruth and her sister, Beth, share the same birthdate.
They celebrated at Meridy's for lunch - Sept. 4, 2013 - with friends. 

 

 

Ruth, her sister Beth, and Beth's granddaughter.  ??? 

Ruth is on the right.

 

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HUTCHCRAFT'S FAMILY REUNION IN AUGUST

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Dwain Hutchcraft - Class of 1954, Barbara Hutchcraft Nigh,
Norma Hutchcraft Williams (Class of 1961),
Linda Hutchcraft Woerner, Gerald Hutchcraft - Class of 1956,
Douglas Hutchcraft

 

Thank You Norma (Hutchcraft) Williams for sending the picture and this information to us.

 

"The Hutchcraft cousins had a great reunion in Jewell, KS on the weekend of August 9, 10 and 11.

Friday was spent sight-seeing in the area. We visited Happy Days Diner in Lincoln, Sylvan Grove (briefly), the Garden of Eden, Flush Plaza and Flying Pig Studio in Lucas, Fossil Station Museum, Meridy's, the Dream Theater and the A&W Root Beer in Russell, Mt. Hermon Cemetery and the water tower in Paradise. Tom Maupin was very kind to take our picture at the water tower. Both the cemetery and the water tower were very nicely kept.

On Saturday we had a catered meal at noon in the Jewell Community Center with visiting, passing (and retiring) the moonshine jug traveling trophy and sharing early Christmas memories.

Those remaining on Sunday attended Jewell Methodist Church, had lunch and departed.

My cousin, Linda, of Jewell asked me about a grocery store that was in the middle of the block on the same side of the Main Street as Brown Store. She remembered the lady in the store being so nice to her as a little girl. After putting our heads together we think maybe this was Smith's Store. But we don't know anything about who ran it, her family, where they lived, etc.
Can anyone help me out? - Norma Hutchcraft Williams

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THE WHITE'S CELEBRATE BIRTHDAY'S AND LABOR DAY

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TIMES OF CELEBRATION
LABOR DAY AND GARNETT'S BIRTHDAY - 2013

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2013 - Labor Day

Garnett (White) Angel - Class of 1945

Vernon White - Class of 1954

Violet (White) Parsons - Class of 1940

Forrest White - Class of 1956

↓Merilyn White - Class of 1962

 

 

Ivan's name (missing brother from NE)

 

Garnett's Birthday - June, 2013

Violet, Garnett, Garnett's youngest great grandson, Forrest

 

 

 

Garnett's Birthday - June, 2013

Family Birthday Dinner

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TO AND FROM VAN

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 I sent an email to Van congratulating him on his honor. 
"Just a quick note – Congratulations Van.  We are very proud of you and are honored that you are an alumni at Paradise and friends of ours."

Then I sent another email with the Paradise Blog link. I forget that everyone does not have the Paradise Blog icon on the desk top or in their favorites. 
 
Van wrote back . . .
"Thanks for the kind note. Wondered for a minute what it was about. You will note that the picture is probably a good 10 yrs old...but what the heck. I stopped getting my picture taken a long time ago.   I pray the both of you are doing well. Best Van"

We were glad to know that he is still using his older pictures. Made us feel much better.  (smiling)

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CONGRATULATIONS VAN R. HOISINGTON - CLASS OF 1958

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Congratulations to Van for another award. 
Click on the link for Wall Street Journal - Aug. 2010 below on this post. 
He certainly is a great representative of Paradise. 
We are very proud of you Van!

2013 Alumni Award Recipients Announced

Each year, the Fort Hays State University Alumni Association presents accomplished alumni, friends, students and faculty with awards in honor of their achievements and/or service. This year’s recipients, six alumni and one friend of Fort Hays State University, will be honored at the Alumni Awards and Recognition Banquet Friday, Oct. 4, during Homecoming celebrations.

Alumni Achievement Award, established in 1959, honors graduates who have made outstanding and unselfish contributions in service to their community, state, or nations as citizens, in chosen career fields, or through philanthropic work. It is the Association’s highest recognition of its graduates.

Van R. Hoisington, Austin, Texas, graduated from FHSU in 1970 with an M.S. in business administration. His B.A. in oral communications was from the University of Kansas. He is the founder, president and CEO of Hoisington Investment Management Co. (HIMCO), which opened in 1980. It is the sub-advisor for Wasatch-Hoisington U.S. Treasury Fund, which has been ranked No. 1 among bond managers for its rate of return on unleveraged, 100-percent U.S. Treasury bond portfolios. He has been recognized by Louis Rukeyser as one of the top fixed income investors. HIMCO is also in the top 1 percent in performance results for fixed-income managers for the last decade.
Hoisington has been featured in Institution Investor, Smart Money, The New York Post, Pensions & Investments, Fortune Magazine, CNNMoney.com, Barron’s and many other financial publications for his investment success. He has twice been featured in Forbes Magazine as an outstanding bond and mutual fund manager, has been a frequent speaker at Grant's Investment Conference and has been a special guest on the PBS show Louis Rukeyser's Wall Street Week. He has been a guest speaker at Chartered Financial Analyst Institute conferences and has published in the Conference Proceedings Quarterly of the CFA Institute.

Before forming HIMCO, he was director of national and international macroeconomic studies and Trust Department vice president and economist for United California Bank. Later, he was senior investment officer, executive trust officer and executive vice president for Texas Commerce Bancshares.

His community and professional activities are extensive, including membership in the National Association of Business Economists and service as secretary of the Southern California chapter. He is also a member of the Financial Analysts Federation. He is on the board of directors of Seton Hospital, Austin, chair of the Stewardship Campaign for the United Methodist Church, Houston, Texas, and chair of that church's administrative board. He is a past vice president of the Austin Lyric Opera Endowment Fund and a past director of the Wine and Food Foundation of Texas. He is a former advisory director of the Texas State Teacher Retirement fund and a former city councilman for Piney Point Village, Houston.

He is a Gold Member of the FHSU Alumni Association, a President's Council donor to the FHSU Foundation and served the Foundation as a member of its Board of Trustees from 2008 to 2011. He was on the Foundation Investment Committee in 2008 and is a member of the FHSU Leadership Circle.

Hoisington and his wife, Ethel ’66, have two sons, David and Van Jr.

Van was also honored in the Wall Street Journal. Click on → Van - Wall Street Journal - Aug. 2010

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JEFF HAGERMAN - CLASS OF 1990

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Happy Birthday to Jeff in Ahganistan

serving our country for each of us!

Thank You to you and your fellow Seabees.

 

 

 

 

 

Sara and their boys and his Mom (Janette Angel Ross) sent this birthday cake and he received it earlier this week.  

It's a Rice Krispie cake made in a bunt cake pan.  Lots of Saran Wrap to help keep it fresh.

 

Jeff wrote on facebook  .  . . . .

Just opened and started eating the Cake, everyone loved it.

 

Jeff posted on facebook . . . .

 My 42nd B-Day for EO1 (me me me) and for IT2 ( I had a Superdupper day)

or as good as it can be in Afghanistan.

 



 

A list that Jeff is making of those that has sent him cards thus far. 
Thank You to each of you.

 

MAKING MAC & CHEESE

The story . . . . .

 



 "The lid popped off "for no reason" and several shells with cheese died needlessly.
Sad day for Hag because we don't get good food here like that often.
He has since recovered after much therapy."

 

More about Jeff
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Jeff Hagerman



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HAPPY 5OTH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY DENNIS & DONNA ALBRECHT

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 Dennis (Class of 1960) and Donna (Class of 1963)

 celebrated their
50th Wedding Anniversary
Congratulations Donna  Dennis
Scroll down for pictures of their celebration by Terry Martin
and
an email from Donna & Dennis about their celebration

 



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Thank You Terry Martin for the photos below.
He said he took more pictures but the flash on his camera wasn't working right.

 

 

 

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An email from Donna & Dennis . . . . 7-13-2013 

"We don't have any of our photographers pictures back yet and the girls didn't take pictures because they were to busy keeping things going.    
Just a short run down----    
The meal started at 6:00.  We served a hot roast with potatoes, green beans, coleslaw, pickles and homemade bread.   We served 275.  

The reception was a 3 tiered cake that was duplicated like the one we had 50 years ago along with sheet cakes.  Tea and lemonade, nuts and mints. 

The band was Jimmy Dee and the Destinations.   They play all the old songs we grew up with.  If you didn't want to dance it was just fun to listen. 

All in all we had a great time.   You don't know how many friends you really have until you have a celebration like this.  

God Bless You All          Donna & Dennis" 

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HAVE A SAFE INDEPENDENCE DAY

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Independence Day, commonly known as the Fourth of July,

is a federal holiday in the United States commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, declaring independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain. 

Independence Day is commonly associated with fireworks, parades, barbecues, carnivals, fairs, picnics, concerts, baseball games, family reunions, and political speeches and ceremonies, in addition to various other public and private events celebrating the history, government, and traditions of the United States. Independence Day is the National Day of the United States.

IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America

 

hen in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

New Hampshire:Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton
Massachusetts:John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry
Rhode Island:Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery
Connecticut:Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott
New York:William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris
New Jersey:Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark
Pennsylvania:Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross
Delaware:Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean
Maryland:Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Virginia:George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton
North Carolina:William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn
South Carolina:Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton
Georgia:Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton

Note from Onnalee . . . . If you are proofreading, I copied and pasted this as it was written.
Shewn,  compleat, neighbouring  and endeavoured are correct. 
They look strange and my proof reader doesn't accept them but they ARE correct.
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CONGRATULATIONS VIRGINIA (LANDIS) & KENNETH MADDOX

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Each of you are invited to attend the

50th Anniversary Celebration
of
Virginia (Landis - Class of 1961)) & Kenneth Maddox 

 

 

 

If you are unable to attend

cards of Congratulations and Best Wishes

can be sent to

Kenneth & Virginia Maddox

5714 E. Skinner

Wichita, KS   67218

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