Howard Calvin Frazier
The funeral for Howard Calvin Frazier, 1824 Hillcrest Drive, will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Roberts-Blue-Barnett Funeral Home Chapel. The Rev. Galen Hinshaw of Rose Hill will conduct the service. Burial, with services conducted by American Legion Ball-McColm Post 5 and Veterans of Foreign Wars Lowry-Funston Post 1980, will be at Memorial Lawn Cemetery.
The family suggests that, instead of flowers, memorial contributions be made to the First Friends Church and sent in care of the Roberts-Blue-Barnett Funeral Home, P.O. Box 175, Emporia, KS 66801.
Mr. Frazier died Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2006, at the Holiday Resort care center. He was 79.
He owned and operated Emporia Trenching Company for 30 years. He also was supervisor for 10 years of the Lyon County Noxious Weed Department. After he retired, he worked at Hardee’s West. During World War II, he served in the Naval Air Force, then was stationed in England with the U.S. Army during the Korean War.
The son of the Rev. Ivan and Julia Palmer Frazier, he was born July 27, 1927, in Wichita. He married Evelyn Van Sickle on Jan. 20, 1952, at Emporia. She survives.
Mr. Frazier was a member of First Friends Church, where he also was an elder, music director, superintendent and teacher for many years. He was a past director of the Flint Hills Barbershop Chorus and sang baritone in the Turnpikers quartet. He was a lifetime member of American Legion Ball-McColm Post 5.
He is also survived by one son, Terry Frazier of Emporia; one daughter, Charla Wright of Westminster, Colo.; three brothers, Harold Frazier of Emporia, Herbert Frazier of Haviland and Harvey Frazier of Houston, Texas; and three granddaughters.