John Ray Seaton, Olpe
OLPE
John Ray Seaton of Olpe died Tuesday, June 26, 2007, at the Flint Hills Care Center in Emporia. He was 72.
The funeral will be at 1 p.m. Friday at the Jones VanArsdale Funeral Home in Lebo. Burial will be in Hartford Cemetery at Hartford. Friends may call from 3 to 6 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Memorial contributions to the Center for Basic Cancer Research may be sent in care of the funeral home, 107 W. Sixth St., Lebo, KS 66856.
OLPE
The funeral for John Ray Seaton of rural Olpe was held today at the Jones VanArsdale Funeral Home in Lebo. Burial will be in Hartford Cemetery.
Memorial contributions to the Center for Basic Cancer Research may be sent in care of the funeral home, 107 W. Sixth, P.O. Box 43, Lebo, KS 66856.
Mr. Seaton died Tuesday, June 26, 2007, at the Flint Hills Care Center in Emporia. He was 72.
He worked as a conductor for the Santa Fe Railroad for more than 30 years before he retired in the mid 1990s. He served in the National Guard in the mid-1950s. He was a lifelong resident of Coffey and Lyon counties.
The son of Marvin V. and Ina Laura Lane Seaton, he was born Jan. 14, 1935, in Burlington. He graduated from Burlington High School.
He married Eleanor Hutchinson in 1956. They were divorced. He married Barbara Dalby in 1967. She died in September 2002.
Mr. Seaton was a member of Veterans of Foreign Wars Lowry-Funston Post 1980.
He is survived by three sons, Douglas Seaton of Auburn, Jesse J. Dalby of Fayetteville, N.C., and John Ray Dalby of Wisconsin; four daughters, Debra A. Redding of Waverly, Brenda K. Seaton of Auburn, Chris Kraum of Sonoma, Calif., and Kimberley R. Dalby of Phoenix, Ariz.; one sister, Virginia Tucker of Wichita; three brothers, Marvin Seaton of Wichita, Francis M. Seaton of Tulsa, Okla., and Charles Seaton of Santa Maria, Calif.; 19 grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.
A grandson, Jayme Bull, died earlier.