Obituaries
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Tuesday July 20, 2010 at Via Christi Village in Pittsburg , KS following an
illness.
Richard was born January 16, 1919 in Parsons, KS the son of Roy G.
and Hazel P. (Babcock) Cloke. He was a member of the 1936 Chanute
State Championship Basketball Team graduating that same year. He
attended 2 years at Chanute Junior College before entering the US
Army Air Corp in 1938. He served in WWII in Africa and Italy flying
B-24s. After the War he was assigned as an associate professor at the
University of Kansas of Air Science and Technology. He later was
returned to active duty as an officer to a remote part of Japan . He later
retired from active duty at Richards Gebrara Air Force Base. Richard
had careers in Insurance, gas and oil industry, and real estate. He was
married to O. Helen Gardner in 1941.
Survivors include his sister Margie Thomas of Ft. Smith , AR ; 2 sons
Thomas Cloke of Chanute , KS and David Cloke of Pittsburg , KS , 10
grandchildren, 5 great-grandchildren, and numerous cousins, nephews
and nieces.
He was preceded in death by his parents, 3 brothers and a son Richard
D. Cloke.
Memorial Graveside Services will be 10:30am Monday July 26, 2010 at
Erie Memorial Cemetery in Erie , KS with Rev. Harry Disbrow officiating.
Friends and family are asked to meet at the cemetery where full military
honors will be conducted. In lieu of flowers the family ask expressions of
sympathy be in the form of memorials to the First United Methodist
Church in Chanute , KS . Friends may drop or mail memorials to
Bath-Naylor Funeral Home 522 S. Broadway Pittsburg, KS 66762.
E-mail condolences may be left at www.bathnaylor.com. Arrangements
and services are under the direction of Bath-Naylor Funeral Home of
Pittsburg, KS.
illness.
Richard was born January 16, 1919 in Parsons, KS the son of Roy G.
and Hazel P. (Babcock) Cloke. He was a member of the 1936 Chanute
State Championship Basketball Team graduating that same year. He
attended 2 years at Chanute Junior College before entering the US
Army Air Corp in 1938. He served in WWII in Africa and Italy flying
B-24s. After the War he was assigned as an associate professor at the
University of Kansas of Air Science and Technology. He later was
returned to active duty as an officer to a remote part of Japan . He later
retired from active duty at Richards Gebrara Air Force Base. Richard
had careers in Insurance, gas and oil industry, and real estate. He was
married to O. Helen Gardner in 1941.
Survivors include his sister Margie Thomas of Ft. Smith , AR ; 2 sons
Thomas Cloke of Chanute , KS and David Cloke of Pittsburg , KS , 10
grandchildren, 5 great-grandchildren, and numerous cousins, nephews
and nieces.
He was preceded in death by his parents, 3 brothers and a son Richard
D. Cloke.
Memorial Graveside Services will be 10:30am Monday July 26, 2010 at
Erie Memorial Cemetery in Erie , KS with Rev. Harry Disbrow officiating.
Friends and family are asked to meet at the cemetery where full military
honors will be conducted. In lieu of flowers the family ask expressions of
sympathy be in the form of memorials to the First United Methodist
Church in Chanute , KS . Friends may drop or mail memorials to
Bath-Naylor Funeral Home 522 S. Broadway Pittsburg, KS 66762.
E-mail condolences may be left at www.bathnaylor.com. Arrangements
and services are under the direction of Bath-Naylor Funeral Home of
Pittsburg, KS.
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