ARDEN YORK

YORK, CAMP, MCALLISTER, PIPER, MOORE

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart (email)
Date: 4/7/2006 at 23:16:52

Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
October 1, 1997

ARDEN YORK, Kansas

R. Arden York, 75, of McPherson, Kan., died Sept. 25, 1997 at his home from complications of cancer. Funeral services were Sept. 29 at Haviland Friends Church with Pastor Lester Snyder and Dallas Evans officiating. Burial followed at the Haviland Cemetery.

He was born May 28, 1922 in Valley Junction. He graduated from Valley High School in 1939, and farmed with his father in Iowa. On April 16, 1950, he married Nadine Camp in Earlham. He continued his agriculture career as a herdsman and ranch manager of cattle operations throught the Midwest. He spent the last several years of his career in fertilizer management before retiring in 1988. He was a member of the Haviland Friends Church.

He was preceded in death by one sister.

Surving relatives include his wife; one son, R. Glenn York of Ft. Collins, Colo.; one daughter, Elaine McAllister of McPherson, Kan.; two sisters, Helen Piper of West Des Moines, Carolyn Moore of Earlham; three grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.