Thornton Lynn Bouse

14 May - 1962

• Name	Thornton Lynn Bouse
  Born	14 May	Whiting, Jackson County, Kansas
  Gender	Male
  Died	6 Mar 1962	Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas
  Buried	Holton Cemetery, Holton, Jackson County, Kansas
  Person ID	I2274	Rossville
  Last Modified	27 Dec 2019

  
  

  Father	Jesse Sumner Bouse,   d. 21 Feb 1905, Holton, Jackson County, Kansas
  Mother	Amy Clark Bouse,   b. 8 Dec 1845, Ireland, Lewis County, West Virginia ,   d. 31 Jan 1936, Denison, Jackson County, Kansas  (Age 90 years)
  Married	4 Jan 1866
  Family ID	F590	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Helena Killey Bouse
  Last Modified	6 Aug 2014 15:06:17
  Family ID	F591	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 14 May - Whiting, Jackson County, Kansas Buried - - Holton Cemetery, Holton, Jackson County, Kansas  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Documents

  Obituary- Bouse, Thornton Thornton L. Bouse Services for Thornton Lynn Bouse, 78, 1722 Wash¬burn, will be at 1:30 pm Fri¬day in the Penwell-Gabel Fu-neral Home with burial in the Holton Cemetery. He died Tuesday at his home after a short illness. He was a teacher and school administrator for 43 years in north east Kansas. He was born May 14, at Whiting, attended schools in the Holton area and was graduated at the State Teachers College at Em¬poria. He received his master’s degree in mathematics at the University of Kansas and was a charter member of Phi Delta Kappa honor¬ary educational fraternity. Before the Oakland area was taken into Topeka’s city limits he was superintendent of Oakland schools. Mr. Bouse was a teacher in the former Campbell Col¬lege at Holton and in the Holton High School. He was the first principal of Ottawa Jun¬ior High School. He was principal of Rossville high school for 13 years. He re¬tired before World War II but left retirement during the war to teach in Wash¬burn Rural High School. He was a member of the Euclid Methodist Church, Scottish Rite bodies and Lodge No. 17, AF&AM. He was a Mason for 54 years and a member of the Holton Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star 50 years. Mr. Bouse is survived by his widow, Mrs. Helena Killey Bouse of the home; two nephews, Jesse Patton of Holton and Robert C. Bouse of Birmingham, Mich.; and four nieces, Mrs. Amy Clark of Paul, Idaho, Mrs. Mary Shumaker of Dallas, Tex., Mrs. Alice Haydon of Horton and Mrs. Ida Bartlett of Holton.