Robert L. Madore
The funeral for former Madison and Springfield, Mo., resident Robert L. “Gus” Madore of Emporia will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Wilson Funeral Home at Madison. Burial will be in Pleasant Ridge Cemetery, west of Olpe. The family will meet friends from 4 to 5 p.m. Monday at the Wilson Funeral Home.
Memorial contributions to the Central Care Cancer Center or Hand in Hand Hospice may be sent in care of the funeral home, P.O. Box 488, Madison, KS 66860.
Mr. Madore died Thursday, Aug. 31, 2006, at his home, 714 Exchange St., after a lengthy illness. He was 68.
The son of John and Olive Kendall Madore, he was born Aug. 15, 1938, at Cambridge, Mass. He attended Kansas State Teachers College in Emporia and the Culinary Institute in Springfield, Mo. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps.
He married Joyce Wiedmer on Aug. 18, 1969, at Coffeyville. She survives.
He and his wife owned and operated a Daylight Donuts in Springfield, Mo., where they moved in 1983. In 1998, they returned to Emporia because of his failing health. Earlier, in 1971, they moved to the family farm at Madison where they raised hogs, and he also worked at Iowa Beef.
In 1976, he was a purchasing agent at Sauder Industries. Earlier, he was a salesman for Phillips Petroleum Co. and attended salesman school in the Phillips headquarters at Bartlesville, Okla. He grew up in Cambridge, Mass., and when he was 10 , drove a horse cart and sold fruit. At the age of 12, he shined shoes on a street corner in Cambridge, with one of his customers being a Mafia boss, who made sure Gus and his brother, Paul, had a “special location.”
Mr. Madore was a member of the Glendale Christian Church in Springfield, Mo. He also was a member of American Legion Goad-Ballinger Post 69 in Springfield.
He is also survived by two stepsons, Carl W. Morgan Jr., of Emporia and Clay A.K. Morgan of Collinsville, Okla.; one brother, Gilbert Madore of Cambridge, Mass.; one sister, Mildred Marchetti of Florida; and four grandchildren. Ten brothers, Douglas Madore, Herbie Madore, Donald Madore, Dannie Madore, James Madore, George Madore, David Madore, Fred Madore, Paul Madore and Bernie Madore, died earlier.