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Ralph William Ent

Male 1914 - 1969  (55 years)


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  • Name Ralph William Ent 
    Born 28 Feb 1914  Hoyt, Jackson County, Kansas Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • The obituary says he was born Feb. 28, 1941, but the correct DOB is February 28, 1914.
    • The obituary says he was born Feb. 28, 1941, but the correct DOB is February 28, 1914.
    Gender Male 
    Died 31 May 1969  Netawaka, Jackson County, Kansas Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Muddy Creek Cemetery, Hoyt, Jackson County, Kansas Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I3255  Rossville
    Last Modified 25 Apr 2017 

    Father Elmer K Ent 
    Mother Elizabeth Guffey Ent 
    Family ID F1855  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Olive Lillian Joy Ent,   b. 9 Dec 1920, Powhattan, Brown County, Kansas Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 31 May 1969, Netawaka, Jackson County, Kansas Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 48 years) 
    Married 1941  Brown County, Kansas Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Gary P Ent,   b. 6 Jan 1957, Horton, Brown County, Kansas Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 26 Aug 1988  (Age 31 years)
     2. Kathleen Ent Hahn Eisermann
     3. Wayne Ent
     4. Elmer Ent
     5. Bruce Ent
    Last Modified 19 Dec 2016 11:09:15 
    Family ID F1863  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBorn - 28 Feb 1914 - Hoyt, Jackson County, Kansas Link to Google Earth
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  • Documents
    Obituary- Ent, Olive and Ent, Ralph
    Obituary- Ent, Olive and Ent, Ralph
    Man, Wife Die In Auto Crash
    State road deaths
    Topeka Kansas
    To date in 1969 8 243
    To date in 1968 7 249
    Total in 1968 12 643
    The Memorial Day weekend traffic death toll in Kansas rose to 11 Saturday with the deaths of Ralph W. Ent, 55, and his wife, Olive, 48, both of Route 1, Whiting, after a three-car crash on K-9 about 1 1/2 miles east of Netawaka in Jackson County.
    Mr. and Mrs. Ent had been in Topeka Friday to complete funeral arrangements for Mrs. Ent’s father, Ray Joy, who died Thursday in a Topeka nursing home.
    The Ents were only a few miles from their home when the crash occurred about 11 p.m. Friday. Both died shortly after arrival at a Horton hospital early Saturday.
    The Kansas Highway Patrol said a 1969-model car driven by Ronnie W. Bell, 17, Holton, was westbound on K-9 at a high rate of speed. The new car struck the rear of a 1961-model pickup truck driven by Robert E. Brown, 15, Sabetha, also headed west.
    The pickup truck overturned and the new' Car careened into the path of the eastbound 1963-model car driven by Ralph Ent, patrolmen said.
    Bell was admitted to a Holton hospital and the Brown youth and a passenger in the pickup, Walter Ideker, 67, Whiting, suf¬fered minor injuries, patrolmen said.
    Ralph W. Ent was born Feb. 28, 1941. Mrs. Ent was born Dec. 9, 1920. The had lived in the Whiting community 18 years and were members of the Baptist Church at Whiting. Ralph Ent was a farmer.
    Survivors include four sons, Wayne Ent, Radley, Elmer Ent, stationed at an Air Force Base in Thailand, and Bruce Ent and Gary Ent, both at home; a daughter, Mrs. Kathleen Hahn, Effingham, and four grandchildren.
    Ralph Ent also is survived by five sisters, Mrs. Marjorie Phillips, 728 Orleans, Mrs. Dora Kissinger, 323 Tyler, and Mrs. Irene Tibbs, Route 5, all of Topeka, Mrs. Mary Tomson, Syracuse, and Mrs. Thelma Cummings, Hoyt, and two brothers, Allen Ent, Rossville, and Willis Ent, Chicago, III.
    Mrs. Ent also is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Mildred Morris, 238 MacVicar, Topeka, and Mrs. Golden Tucker, St. Louis, Mo.; and four brothers, Sher¬man Joy, Portland, Ore., Milton Joy, Bloomfield, N.M., Ronald Joy, 535 Rogers, Topeka, and George Joy, Lawrence.
    Chaney Mortuary, Horton, is in charge of arrangements.