Otto Leroy Eubank
The funeral for Otto Leroy Eubank, 1121 West St., will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Twelfth Avenue Baptist Church. The Rev. Nancy Gammil of the First United Methodist Church will conduct the service. Burial will be at Memorial Lawn Cemetery. The family will meet friends from 6 to 7 p.m. today at the Roberts-Blue-Barnett Funeral Home.
Memorial contributions to the Kansas Lions Sight Foundation or Hetlinger Developmental Center may be sent in care of the funeral home.
Mr. Eubank died Saturday, Jan. 6, 2007, at Newman Regional Health. He was 89.
He and his wife, Dorothy, owned and operated Emporia Floral, which they purchased in February 1956 and which is still owned and operated by the family. He began working at the age of 10 in a floral shop in Emporia and continued until he entered the military service in September 1942. After returning from service four years later, he graduated from Kansas State Teachers College in 1950 and then taught industrial arts at Emporia High School for several years. He also helped start the Hetlinger Develpmental Center.
The son of Oliver Eliege “Lige” and Ellanora Susanna Anderson Eubank, he was born Sept. 7, 1917, in Hutchinson. He married Dorothy Lenore Davis on June 14, 1942, in Emporia. She died July 20, 2005, in Emporia.
Mr. Eubank was a member of the First United Methodist Church. He also was a member of the Emporia Noon Lions Club, Emporia area Retired Shool Personnel, Epsilon Pi Tau, American Legion Ball-McColm Post 5 and United Commercial Travelers.
He is survived by one daughter, Susan Jane Hall of Emporia; one brother, William F. Eubank of Emporia; two sisters, Helen Cramer of Chanute and Maxine Thompson of Marietta, Ga.; and two grandchildren.
One son, Michael Eubank, died June 9, 1992. One sister, Virginia Mays; and three brothers, Clyde Eubank, Elmer Eubank and Clinton Eubank, also died earlier.