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Obituary- Spears, LaVerne 1

LaVerne Herbert Spears
ROSSVILLE — LaVerne Herbert Spears, 85, Rossville, died Sunday, Dec. 15, 1991, at his home.

He served as mayor of Rossville 10 years and two terms as president of the Kansas League of Municipalities. In 1964, he was elected to the Kansas House of Representatives and served 10 years.

He owned and operated a grain and livestock farm near Rossville, was a general agent for Kansas Farm Bureau Insurance 32 years and had been a partner in Massey-Ferguson Farm Implement dealership in Rossville. He had owned the Gamble Store in Wamego and had been manager of the International-Harvester dealership in Valley Falls.

He was born Sept. 20, 1906, in Louisville, the son of Herbert and Flora Obera Laughlin Spears. He was graduated from Wamego High School in 1924 and from Kansas State College in Manhattan in 1936. He moved to Rossville in 1928.

He was a member of the United Methodist Church in Rossville and an affiliate member of Willowbrook United Methodist Church in Sun City, Ariz.

He was a member of the Masonic Lodge more than 50 years and a current member of Lake Lodge No. 50, AF&AM, in Silver Lake. He was master of the former Hesperian Lodge No. 111, AF&AM, in Rossville in 1944. He was a member of Scottish Rite consistory and Arab Shrine, both in Topeka.

He was a member of Loyal Chapter No. 176, Order of Eastern Star, in Silver Lake and had been worthy patron of the former Amaryllis Chapter No. 321, Order of Eastern Star, in Rossville eight times. He was elected worthy grand patron of the Kansas Grand Chapter of Order of Eastern Star and served on the Necrology Committee of General Grand Chapter from 1970 to 1973.

He was a member of the Lions Club in Rossville and Bell Lions Club in Sun City, Ariz., where he served as president in 1990. He was a charter member of the board of Cross Creek Watershed District No. 42 and had been treasurer 35 years.

He was married to Edna Iona Vilven Dec. 3, 1927, in Seneca. She survives. A grandson, Earl Queen, preceded him in death.

Other survivors include two daughters, Helen L. Cook and Ruth E. Larson, both of Rossville; five grand¬children and seven
great-grandchildren.

Services will be at 1 p.m. Thursday at Parker-Price Mortuary in Topeka. Masonic services will be conducted by Lake Lodge No. 50, AF&AM. Burial will be in Rossville Cemetery. Mr. Spears will lie in state after 8 a.m. Wednesday at the mortuary where relatives and friends will meet from 7 to 8 p.m. Wednesday.

Memorial contributions may be made to the building fund at the United Methodist Church, P.O. Box 88, Rossville, 66533, or Willowbrook Foundation, 19390 N. 99th Ave., Sun
City, Ariz., 85373.

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