The National Republican Congressional Committee has pulled more than $1 million in advertising support from Rep. Kevin Yoder’s re-election campaign in the Kansas 3rd District, according toThe Hill newspaper.
The Hill broke the story late Sunday and quotes an unnamed source “familiar with the NRCC’s strategic thinking.”
Photo courtesy Congressman Kevin Yoder
The report comes on the heels of Inside Politics Saturday moving the race to “Tilt Democratic.” Other ratings organizations have the race as a “toss up.”
The last poll was from the New York Times which has Democrat Sharice Davids up eight points on the incumbent.
Yoder’s campaign isn’t ready to concede that the NRCC is abandoning the race.
“Chairman (Steve) Stivers reiterated the NRCC’s commitment to helping Kevin directly to him last week,” campaign spokesperson C.J. Grover said it a text. “The committee remains engaged in our race and is sending coordinated TV dollars this week.”
Even if the NRCC is pulling out of town, Yoder is getting plenty of outside money. The Congressional Leadership Fund, the largest GOP PAC, has already poured $1.8 million into the race and has hundreds of thousands of dollars more in TV time reserved in Kansas City.
In a tweet, University of Kansas Political Science Professor Patrick Miller said the NRCC pulling back money from Yoder is “not a sign of confidence in his re-election odds.” He also said that the NRCC has been “triaging several vulnerable Rs (Republicans) in the last week” whose poll numbers look similar to Yoder’s.
The NRCC story also comes at the end of the fundraising quarter for candidate committees. The news could discourage some Republicans from putting money into the race. Sunday marks the close of the latest fundraising period for congressional campaigns. Federal Election Commission reports for candidates are due Oct. 15.
Former U.S. Sen. Bob Dole (R-Russell, KS) (Courtesy KTWU)
By BECKY KISER Hays Post
“Washburn provided me with a firm foundation to set my sights on great things. For my generation, which had won a war then create a better future back home, Washburn gave us that new start through education.”
That’s the quote on a plaque adorning the new bronze statue celebrating the lifetime achievements of Senator Bob Dole that was unveiled Friday, Sept. 28, at Washburn University in Topeka, where the Russell native earned two degrees after serving in World War II.
Dole developed a worldwide reputation for public service, holding elected positions in the Kansas House of Representatives, as Russell County attorney, and as U.S. congressman before spending nearly 30 years as U.S. senator.
In an interview with KTWU-TV, the 95-year-old said he wishes more young people would get politically involved. “Whether they’re Democrats, Republicans, Independent, I wish they would take an interest in what’s happening.”
Dole also sees a need for more bipartisanship in today’s Congress.
“We could certainly use some bipartisanship in the United States Senate now. About all they do is scream at each other and as a result they don’t get lot done,” Dole concluded.
“When I was the Republican leader (of the Senate), we had a good group of Republicans. I had many friends on the Democratic side and so we were able to get things done.
“We need to find some way the Democrats and the Republicans today can sit down together and work out a compromise. You can’t compromise everything but most everything you can,” said Dole.
In his long career of public service, Dole says one of his most remarkable memories is “rescuing Society Security.”
“I worked with Senator Patrick Patrick Moynihan, a Democrat (from New York) and we were able to in fact rescue Society Security.”
Dole also notes his leadership in the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) which became law in 1990. As a wounded World War II veteran who never fully regained use of his right arm, Dole was an advocate for the disabled throughout his career and a major supporter of ADA.
Dole, 95, says he’s surprised he’s lived so long.
“I’ve had a great life. I’ve had a few bumps in the road, but overall, I can’t complain. Never did complain.”
Asked for advice for today’s young Americans, Dole acknowledged “it’s tough when you’re in your early 20s. But my view was if you study hard and get your education, then you’re on your way to probably a better life.
“I’m a proud Kansan and I want to thank Kansans for all the support they gave me for the 36 years I was in Congress, and Washburn. They really gave me a life.”
Dole and KHP Trooper Tod (Courtesy Trooper Tod)
Dole and his wife Elizabeth were in Russell Saturday evening for dinner with family and friends.
They were escorted by Kansas Highway Patrol Technical Trooper Tod Hileman of Hays.
TOPEKA—Fiscal year tax collections have exceeded previous year’s totals by $172.78 million according to data from the latest revenue report released Monday, according to a media release from the Kansas Department of Revenue.
Fiscal year 2019 tax collections so far total $1.69 billion.
September tax collections were up $93.29 million, or 15.48 percent over last year. September’s tax collections exceeded expectations for the month by $81.04 million.
Individual income tax collections totaled $346.97 million in September which is $76.46 million or 28.26 percent above the same month last year. September sales tax collections fell short of last September’s collections by $1.11 million.
Dorothy M. Thrasher, 82, passed away September 24, 2018 at the Hodgeman County Health Center, Jetmore.
She was born June 12, 1936 in Scott City, KS. the daughter of Franklin Howard and Esther Julia Armantrout Baker. An area resident of Tribune, KS, she was a Homemaker and Secretary.
She was of the Christian Faith. She graduated from Wichita County High school. She enjoyed playing card games as she was very competitive at them. She also loved square dancing, trips to her second home in Texas and her annual family reunion that she never missed, but most of all she cherished her family as they were everything to her.
In August of 1954 she married Leroy Mai. They later separated and she married Don L. Thrasher on July 21, 1969 in Tribune, KS. He survives.
Survivors Include: one daughter, Sheryl (Michael) MacNair, Jetmore, KS; one son, Randall Mai, Manhattan, KS; one brother, Donald (Carnie) Baker, Deerfield, IL; one sister, Marjorie Kuhn, Poteau, OK. and five grandchildren, Katherine Mai, Courtney Mai, Shane MacNair, Erin Delmar, Andrew MacNair, four great grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.
Cremation has taken place and a memorial service will be held at 10:00 am on Friday, October 12, 2018 at the Prairie View Church-Brethren, 4855 W. Finney Scott Rd., Scott City, KS. 67871, with Pastor Jon Tuttle presiding. Burial will be at 2pm Central, 1pm Mountain time at the Greeley County Cemetery, Tribune, KS. following the service.
Memorials may be given to the Dorothy Mae Thrasher Scholarship Fund for Women Cancer Survivors attending Kansas State University in care of Beckwith Funeral Home, PO Box 663, Jetmore, KS. 67854.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Monday celebrated a revised North American trade deal with Canada and Mexico as a return of the United States to a “manufacturing powerhouse,” vowing to sign the agreement by late November.
President Trump Delivers Remarks on the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement https://t.co/hZFMxLBTi9
But the president noted that the deal would need to be ratified by Congress, a step that could be complicated by the outcome of the fall congressional elections. When told he seemed confident of congressional approval, he said he was “not at all confident” but felt ratification would be granted if lawmakers took the correct action.
“Anything you submit to Congress is trouble no matter what,” Trump said, predicting that Democrats would say, “Trump likes it so we’re not going to approve it.”
Trump embraced the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement during a Rose Garden ceremony, branding the pact the “USMCA.” The president said the name has a “good ring to it,” repeating U-S-M-C-A several times.
A good day for Canada & our closest trading partners. More tomorrow… https://t.co/qOowhvYW2B
The agreement was forged just before a midnight deadline imposed by the U.S. to include Canada in a deal reached with Mexico late in the summer. It replaces the 24-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement, which Trump has lambasted as a job-wrecking disaster that has hollowed out the nation’s industrialized base.
Flanked by Cabinet members, Trump said the pact is the “most important deal we’ve ever made by far,” covering $1.2 trillion in trade. The president said his administration had not yet agreed to lift tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from Canada, a contentious issue between the two neighbors.
For Trump, the agreement reached in the weeks before the November congressional elections offers vindication for his hardline trade policies that have roiled relations with China, the European Union and America’s North American neighbors while causing concerns among Midwest farmers and manufacturers worried about retaliation.
Trump’s advisers view the trade pact as a political winner in Midwest battleground states critical to the president’s 2016 victory and home to tens of thousands of auto workers and manufacturers who could benefit from the changes.
Trump said he would sign the final agreement in late November, in about 60 days, and the pact is expected to be signed by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and outgoing Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto before he leaves office Dec. 1. Trump said he spoke to Trudeau by phone and told reporters that their recent tensions didn’t affect the deal-making. “He’s a professional. I’m a professional,” Trump said, calling it a “fair deal.”
Pena Nieto will be replaced by President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, whose incoming administration said the deal would offer more certainty for financial markets, investment and job creation.
Ratifying the deal is likely to stretch into 2019 because once Trump and the leaders from Canada and Mexico sign the agreement, the administration and congressional leaders will need to write legislation to implement the deal and win passage in Congress.
Trump threatened to go ahead with a revamped NAFTA, with or without Canada. It was unclear, however, whether Trump had authority from Congress to pursue a revamped NAFTA with only Mexico.
NAFTA tore down most trade barriers between the United States, Canada and Mexico, leading to a surge in trade among them. But Trump and other critics said it encouraged manufacturers to move south of the border to take advantage of low Mexican wages, costing American jobs.
VICTORIA (AP) — The friary in remote western Kansas that is now home to a disgraced former U.S. cardinal removed from ministry by Pope Francis over allegations of sexual abuse is just one block from an elementary school.
“I was never made aware of it until I found out through social media” on Friday, Victoria Elementary Principal Kent Michel said.
McCarrick, 88, was the retired Archbishop of Washington when he was removed from public ministry in June by Pope Francis after allegations that he sexually abused a teenager while a priest in New York more than 40 years ago were found to be credible by the church.
Bishop Gerald Vincke of the Diocese of Salina, who agreed to McCarrick’s new living arrangement, told the Star he was not aware of anyone with the church notifying the school of McCarrick’s presence.
“Regarding the school, Archbishop McCarrick is not allowed to make any public appearances or visit the school or do any ministry,” Vincke told the newspaper in an email. “He is confined to the friary to do penance and prayer. The friary is in the small town in Victoria. The friary is enclosed.”
The St. Louis-based Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests called the move irresponsible.
“It boggles the mind that church officials are this reckless,” said David Closhessy, the former director of the advocacy group. “No cleric who’s been accused of abuse, certainly not one facing multiple allegations, should be anywhere around kids, especially not an elementary school.”
McCarrick was the Washington archbishop from 2000 to 2006, and previously one of the highest, most visible Catholic Church officials in the United States. He was heavily involved in the church’s response to allegations of priest abuse.
At the time of McCarrick’s June removal, the New Jersey archdioceses of Newark and Metuchen revealed that they had received three complaints from adults alleging misconduct and harassment by McCarrick and had settled two of them.
Pope Francis accepted McCarrick’s resignation on July 28, effectively stripping him of his cardinal’s title, and ordered him to live a lifetime of penance and prayer pending the outcome of a canonical trial.
A month later a former Vatican ambassador, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, rocked the Catholic Church by accusing Francis of rehabilitating McCarrick from sanctions imposed by Pope Benedict XVI over reports he slept with seminarians.
Vigano accused more than two dozen current and former Vatican officials, as well as a host of U.S. bishops and papal advisers, of being part of the cover-up and called for Francis to resign over the scandal.
Francis on Saturday asked for daily prayers to protect the Catholic Church from what he says are “attacks by the devil,” in his latest response to the clerical sex abuse and cover-up scandal.
Louisville head coach Rick Pitino gestures during the game with Minnesota on December 20, 2008 in Glendale, Arizona. Shutterstock.com
By TOM HAYS Associated Press
NEW YORK — When Brian Bowen Jr., one of America’s brightest high school basketball stars, announced in June 2017 that he would attend the University of Louisville, a school that had not been on anyone’s radar as his possible destination, sportswriters called it a coup that “came out of nowhere.”
Louisville coach Rick Pitino agreed.
“In my 40 years of coaching,” he said, “this is the luckiest I’ve been.”
In a trial that begins Monday, federal prosecutors will argue that the signing wasn’t luck at all but the result of a payoff to Bowen’s father.
Former sports agent Christian Dawkins, former Amateur Athletic Union coach Merl Code and former Adidas executive James Gatto have all pleaded not guilty to charges they plotted to pay Bowen’s father $100,000 in exchange for his son’s promise to commit to Louisville.
It is the first trial related to an FBI investigation that exposed the sleazy side of big money in college basketball and led to charges against multiple people involved in making payments to student athletes. Other defendants, including former assistant coaches from Arizona, Auburn, the University of Southern California and Oklahoma State, face separate trials.
Neither Bowen, now 19, nor his father, Brian Bowen Sr., have been charged. Nor has Pitino, who was fired by Louisville along with athletic director Tom Jurich after the investigation became public.
The indictment says Adidas played a role in helping lure star players to its affiliated teams and keep them from going to teams sponsored by competitors like Nike. It also includes allegations that recruiters talked about using money from Adidas to pay two other families of prized high school basketball recruits, besides Bowen.
Lawyers for the defendants say any recruiting issues should have been the NCAA’s problem, not fodder for a federal prosecution.
In one episode central to the case, investigators recorded a meeting at a Las Vegas hotel in which Dawkins met with an assistant coach at Louisville and the director of an amateur team to talk about making backdoor cash payments to players, with the expectation that he could manage their business affairs once they turned professional.
The men didn’t know that another person in the room was an FBI informant.
At the meeting, Dawkins was overheard warning how an Adidas competitor was “coming with a higher number” for Bowen’s family, the criminal complaint said. It said he also claimed he’d been in touch with the Louisville head coach about how to come with more money.
Prosecutors say the defendants settled on a plan to pay the Bowen family four $25,000 installments, with the money coming from Adidas, but disguised by routing it through an amateur team run by Merl Code.
They contend that the secret payments defrauded colleges because Bowen and other young athletes would not have qualified for generous scholarships if they were known to have accepted outside payments. Also, the basketball programs might have to forfeit games or lose tournament eligibility if they were found to have used ineligible players.
Defense lawyers plan to challenge this argument.
The defendants, they wrote in a recent court filing, “were not trying to cause financial harm to these schools, but rather were trying to help them recruit a great basketball team that would bring in millions of dollars in revenue and bolster their national reputation.”
Prosecutors haven’t ruled out calling recruits or their family members as witnesses. And it’s likely that Pitino’s name will come up in testimony at a trial expected to last at least three weeks.
While the case has generated headlines, college basketball largely remained business as usual last season. No teams were declared ineligible for the NCAA Tournament.
Bowen, who has not been accused of having any personal knowledge of payments to his family, may have suffered more than anyone associated with the case so far.
Louisville suspended him before he ever played a game. He transferred to the University of South Carolina, but after it said he couldn’t play this season, he signed with a professional team in Australia, effectively ending his college career and dimming his hope of playing in the NBA.
Pitino has insisted there was nothing suspicious about how the teenager was recruited.
“Some people will believe it, some people won’t,” Pitino told The Associated Press in a recent interview. “That I don’t care.”
___ AP Basketball Writer Aaron Beard in Raleigh, North Carolina, contributed to this report.
Friday, October 5, 6-8:30 p.m., Options Domestic & Sexual Violence Services will be hosting our 3rd annual Purple Light Nights® event at Big Creek Crossing, 2918 Vine.
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month and we are taking this opportunity to spread awareness of the prevalence of domestic violence in our community.
There will be free food, free coffee, children’s activities, and guest speakers from local law enforcement, local government, and other community agencies.
We will also be lighting the tree purple, showing our commitment to spreading the word and to tell our community that we will not stand for domestic violence.
6:00: Event begins
7:00: Guest speakers
8:00 Tree lighting
8:30 Event ends
Food provided by The Press and coffee provided by Breathe.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A statue has been dedicated in Topeka to honor an instrumental player in the Brown v. Board of Education case that ended segregation in public schools.
Image courtesy VisitTopeka.com
The statue of McKinley Burnett was dedicated Sunday afternoon in the city’s downtown. While president of the Topeka chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Burnett helped recruit the 13 black parents who tried unsuccessfully to enroll their children in white Topeka elementary schools in 1951. Their lawsuit was combined with four other segregation challenges, leading to the historic 1954 U.S. Supreme Court ruling.
Washburn University School of Law dean Carla Pratt says the case was the most significant of the 20th century because it demanded that America live up to its promise of equality.
Dr. Roger Marshall, R-Great Bend, is the First District Kansas Congressman.
Dear Friends,
We have some positive news on trade as the White House signed the renegotiated KORUS agreement and announced the beginning of a trade agreement negotiation with Japan. CNBC’s Global CFO Council also found that the United States is the only country whose economy is showing signs of improvement. Other countries and regions, such as Canada, the UK, China, and the Euro Zone, showed signs of stagnation and decline. Despite criticism, our efforts toward deregulation and pro-growth tax cuts have successfully revitalized the American economy and put more money in the hands of families who desperately need it.
Last week the U.S. Federal Reserve echoed promising economic forecasts and reaffirmed plans to steadily tighten monetary policy as our nation is predicted to continue enjoying economic growth and near full employment
In regards to the latest news on Judge Kavanaugh’s confirmation. I found Judge Kavanaugh’s testimony to be genuine and from the heart. In Thursday’s hearing, the committee had the opportunity to ask both Judge Kavanaugh and Dr. Ford, under oath, anything they wanted to about these allegations. I am glad Dr. Ford had the opportunity to testify. We must always take these types of accusations seriously, but after watching closely to both testimonies I have confidence in Judge Kavanaugh. He has already cleared six FBI background investigations, given 34 hours of sworn testimony, and done three interviews with the Committee under penalty of felony categorically denying all accusations.
Extending this by a week just continues to destroy Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s life’s work and drag his family through the mud.
President Díaz-Canel
Meeting with President Díaz-Canel
I was honored to sit down with the new Cuban President, Miguel Díaz-Canel to discuss trade opportunities between the U.S. and Cuba. Currently, we have outdated trade restrictions in place that bar us from capitalizing on the opportunities that lie just 90 miles from our coast.
We cannot continue to overlook this market! Even though the Cuban market and population are small in comparison to the U.S., they are far from insignificant. Cuba imports nearly $500 million in commodities produced in Kansas, but they get these goods and roughly 80 percent of their food from Europe, Latin America, and Asia.
This is a huge disappointment. Kansas farmers can and should be Cuba’s number one supplier of commodities like sorghum, soy, wheat, and corn. In our meeting, I expressed my continued support of opening markets with Cuba. In D.C., I have been a vocal advocate for trade relations with Cuba, and have cosponsored the Cuba Trade Act, Americans Freedom to Travel to Cuba Act, and the Cuba Agricultural Exports Act.
Tim Phillips and Steve Forbes
Trade Builds America
Last week, I also sat down with Steve Forbes from Forbes Magazine and our host, Tim Phillips from Americans for Prosperity, to discuss the impact of tariffs on American consumers. Chinese industry have been hit hard, but so have American businesses. Roughly 60% of Kansas’s agricultural producers are going to lose money this year, and as Steve pointed out, re-gaining lost markets is not an easy task. Kansans have felt the consequences, with Chinese tariffs on soybeans, hurting our farmers, and U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum, increasing costs for our manufacturers.
We must double our efforts to knock down trade barriers and open new markets. Steve and I both agreed that while free trade is tremendously important for improving the lives of our consumers, the United States should also make a stronger effort to protect intellectual property abroad and hold the perpetrators of trade abuses directly accountable. I would like to give a special thanks to Mr. Phillips for hosting us, and Mr. Forbes for his valuable insight on this important issue.
Victory for Small Business
Last Tuesday evening the House passed my bill, H.R. 6369, which aims to expand federal contracting opportunities for small businesses. Currently, dollar thresholds for contract sizes limit opportunities for small businesses to participate in federal contracting, however this bill would modernize dollar amounts for sole-source awards, bringing them in line with current contract sizes. Additionally, the bill would establish a front-end verification process at the Small Business Administration to ensure that only qualified firms are receiving contracts. By making these changes, we’re providing necessary oversight of taxpayer resources while expanding contracting opportunities for service-disabled veteran, women owned, and HUBZone certified small businesses.
Tax Reform 2.0
The House voted Friday to make the individual tax cuts permanent through Tax Reform 2.0, which will continue to protect hardworking Americans and small businesses. Tax Reform 2.0 includes tax cuts for middle-class families, helps families and individuals save for the future, and spurs American innovation by helping entrepreneurs. Since passing the Tax Cuts & Jobs Act, the American Economy has seen tremendous growing success. There have been nearly 1.7 million new jobs created since tax reform was enacted, and today’s vote locks in these key provisions.
Guardian of Small Business award
Marshall a Guardian of Small Business
I was extremely honored when the National Federation of Independent Business handed me their Guardian of Small Business award for my efforts to promote and protect Kansas small business. The NFIB has represented small businesses for over 75 years. They present their Guardian of Small Business Award annually to lawmakers who consistently vote to support major issues facing small business. I plan to continue working with the NFIB and my fellow members of the House to topple trade barriers and present new opportunities for Kansas’s small business owners.
Marshall Serves to Protect Patients
Last week we made significant strides in protecting Kansans, and patients in dire need. I recently led a bipartisan letter to protect vulnerable patients from abusive behavior by air ambulance companies by asking for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Reauthorization Act to include provisions authored by Rep. Woodall (R-GA) that work to address an egregious business practice that is taking advantage of vulnerable people in their most desperate time of need.
When driving is not quick enough for a patient in an emergency, one of three air ambulance companies is the only option for Kansans to get to the emergency treatment they need. But depending on which air ambulance company is called, the charge to the patient can vary by literally tens of thousands of dollars.
Just this year alone, the Kansas Insurance Department has received more than 70 complaints from Kansans about air ambulance companies balance-billing more than $35,000 per emergency transport.
These crippling and unforeseen bills from air ambulance companies who refuse to contract with the most common health insurance providers are hurting Americans across the country.
We passed the FAA Reauthorization Act with overwhelming bipartisan support. I was proud to see the conference report retain provisions mentioned in the letter we sent and protect these patients; however this issue is far from rectified, and I look forward to continuing to advocate on their behalf.
Trade with Taiwan
It was great to have another top 10 agriculture market in D.C. Taiwan has long been a partner of U.S. agriculture, purchasing $3.3 billion in agricultural products last year. Last week, they committed to buying 750,000 tons of U.S. soybeans. That’s a $300 million investment in U.S. farmers. As we are working to shore up our trade agreements, this is certainly good news for our soybean producers that have one of the hardest hit commodities in this trade war.
Mary Lou Blum, 88 died Thursday, September 27, 2018 in Wichita.
She was born to Harold A. Newman and Margaret May Conder on November 6, 1929 in Wichita, KS. She drove a truck for her father’s company to help the family withstand the Great Depression. She graduated from Ellinwood High School in Ellinwood, KS in 1947.
She attended Fort Hays State University where she met her future husband Robert “Bob” Blum. They were married January 18,1950. She held many positions within the family businesses which ranged from keeping the books in order, keeping Bob’s side projects under control, and raising their daughters via iron fist. Bob and Mary Lou made their home throughout Kansas; in Holyrood, Grinnell, Oakley and Hays, Kansas.
Mary Lou retired in Wichita but continued to manage the family farm from there until her death. Mary Lou had many hobbies and interests. She was generous with her time and talents including most recently knitting 87 hats for the underprivileged.
She gave tirelessly to Fort Hays State University, which was recognized through the Nita M. Landrum Award that she received in 2007. She enjoyed watching sports, especially the Fort Hays State Tigers. She had strong opinions about coaching styles, not being afraid to share those opinions with captive audiences. She was an avid reader, prolific at knitting and an excellent seamstress. She excelled at tatting and the making of lye soap; two of many of the lost domestic arts that she enjoyed doing and sharing with others.
Many of her family and friends’ lives will benefit from the lessons of creative “frugality” (her word) that she instilled. She was a member of the United Methodist Church, PEO, Hospital Auxiliary, Numerous Charitable Hospital Boards, and Fort Hays State Endowment Association. Mary Lou will be remembered for a toughness and determination that she received through genetics but were later perfected by the Dust Bowl and Great Depression. A woman with a heart of gold, even in her last hours she was more concerned with the well-being of others than her own. She will be remembered by many for the lessons she taught as not only in word but by action.
Graveside Service will be at 11:00 am, October 4, 2018 at Lakin Comanche Cemetery in Ellinwood, KS. She was preceded in death by her parents, Harold and Margaret Newman; husband, Robert Blum and daughter, Rebecca Jane Blum. She is survived by her daughters, Nancy Blum Clark of Wichita, KS, Jane E. Blum (John Schwartz) of Reno, NV, MaryPat Blum Dwyer of Hays, KS; grandchildren, Andrew (Darcy) Clark (great-grandsons, Aedan and Emmett); Caroline Clark, Alex (Katie) Clark (great-grandson, Mason), Rebecca Clark, Sarah Clark, Jackson Dwyer, Ike Dwyer, MaryKathryn Dwyer; and sister, Dixie Pierce of Denver, CO.
A memorial has been established with: Fort Hays State University Foundation, Robbins Center, One Tiger Place, P.O. Box 1060, Hays, KS 67601.Downing & Lahey East Mortuary.
