Payton, Leonard Royce (1930 – 2009)

PAYTON, OBENCHAIN, WALL, CROFT, ASCHE, KETTERLING, MARTIN, KOENIG, HOFFMAN

Posted By: Denise Wurner (email)
Date: 8/4/2013 at 20:52:20

Name of deceased: Leonard Royce Payton

Aged: 79 yrs, 7 mo, 20 days

Residence: Harlan, IA

Born: April 15, 1930, Glover, ND

Died: Dec. 5, 2009, Myrtue Medical Center, Harlan IA

Funeral services: Saturday, Dec. 12, 2009, Burmeister-Johannsen Funeral Home, Harlan, IA; Rev. Roy North of the Harlan Church of Christ officiated. Burial at Rose Hill Cemetery, Kirkman, IA.

Survived by: wife, Jewell Payton of Harlan, IA; stepsons, Bob Croft of Omaha, NE, and James Croft of Pullman, WA; sisters, Martha (spouse, Dale) Asche of Gwinner, ND, Esther (spouse, Albert) Ketterling of Jamestown, ND, Mary Ann Martin of Wildomar, CA, and June Koenig of Stockton, CA; brothers, Clyde (spouse, Lorraine) Hoffman of Medford, OR, George (spouse, Cindy) Hoffman of Moscow, ID, and Robert (spouse, Gwen) Hoffman of Oakes, ND; 3 step-grandchildren; 7 step-great-grandchildren; other relatives and friends

Predeceased by: mother, Alice Obenchain

Education: Country School #3, graduated from Oakes (ND) Public High School, Class of 1949; Bachelor of Science Degree, Valley City State in ND; Master’s degree from Northern State in Aberdeen, SD

Military service: U.S. Army

Marriage: Jewell Lois (nee Wall) Croft, June 11, 1969, Harlan, IA

Employment: taught Special Education and elementary classes in ND and Michigan; after his marriage, he continued his teaching career in Harlan, spending 1969-1993 teaching High School Special Education. He retired after 37 years of teaching

Hobbies/Interests: Member, Harlan Church of Christ, Harlan, IA, and taught Bible classes there. In 1983, was named “Teacher of the Year” by the Assn. of Mentally Retarded Citizens, in Detroit, MI. Was previously a 4-H leader and Boy Scout leader; enjoyed Ham radio activities, bowling, coaching elementary age sports, coin collecting and reading.

Source: burmeisterjohannsen.com