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Obituary -- Democratic Messenger, Eureka, Kansas; Thursday, 6 APR 1916, page 1 (Newspapers.com):

DEATHS.

Brown.    Levi Perry Brown was born March 2, 1844, in Harrison county, Indiana; died March 28, 1916, at St. Francis Hospital, Wichita, Kansas, aged 72 years and 26 days. When his parents moved to Clark county, Missouri, he accompanied them, and on August 31, 1863, he enlisted in Co. M. 9th Regiment, Iowa Cavalry. His army life was spent almost altogether in Arkansas.  On December 4, 1870, he was married to Miss Mary Mosher. October 27, 1872, he brought his family to Kansas, first living in Butler county, later moving to Bachelor township, Greenwood county, where he spent the remainder of his life. Mr. Brown was converted when about 17 years of age in a United Brethren church of which he became a member. After the war, living for a time in Clark county, Mo., there being no United Brethren church, he united with the Presbyterian church, then after moving to Kansas he was for a time a member of that was known as Wesley Chapel, Methodist Episcopal church, at Burkton, Kansas, and afterwards living in the neighborhood, he became a member of Little Flock Baptist church, east of Eureka, where he held membership up to the time of death. Two children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Brown, a daughter, Emma Catherine, who died April 21, 1895, and a son, Lewis Henry Brown, now living near Madison, Kansas. Besides the bereaved wife and son, near relatives surviving him are two grandchildren, two brothers and one sister. Mr. Brown was stricken with pneumonia February 11, 1916, from which an accumulation of fluid formed in the lung cavity. He was taken to Wichita where an operation was performed Friday, March 24, from which he rallied nicely but took a turn for the worse Monday and failed rapidly until the end came Tuesday afternoon, March 28, at 2:30 o’clock. Funeral services were held from the Methodist church Thursday afternoon. Interment in Greenwood cemetery.

Obituary – The Modesto Bee, Modesto, California; Saturday, 20 JUN 1998, page F-15 (Newspapers.com):

Junior E. Cochran

May 22, 1925 – June 11, 1998

Junior Eugene Cochran, 73, of Denair died June 11 at Doctors Medical Center, Modesto.

Mr. Cochran was a native of Edna, Okla. He lived in Denair 25 years. He worked for the county road department in Oklahoma.

He is survived by his companion, Margaret Walls of Denair; children, Ralph Junior Cochran of Mounds, Okla., William Arlee Cochran of Beggs, Okla., and Donald Gene Cochran of Tulsa, Okla., and Ellen Inez Forrest of Bixby, Okla.; stepchildren, James Walls and Tony Walls, both of Modesto, Larry Walls of Madera, Patsy Hester of Waterford and LaDonna Lucas of Ceres; brothers, Franklin Cochran of Cushing, Okla., and Arthur Cochran and Steve Cochran, both of Tulsa; and 22 grandchildren, 33 great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren.

Private services. Graveside service will be held in Welty, Okla. Eaton Family Funeral & Cremation Service, Modesto, in charge of arrangements.

Remembrances may be made to Community Hospice, 601 McHenry Ave., Modesto 95350.

; license reported in the 27 DEC 1939 edition of the Stone County News-Oracle, Galena, Missouri, page 3 (Newspapers.com).

Obituary – (unknown newspaper, via Findagrave.com):

LOY R. DEONIER

Loy Ray Deonier, 49, Liberty, died Saturday after apparently suffering a heart attack while working in a barn east of Liberty.

He was born in Oklahoma and had lived in Liberty 25 years. Mr. Deonier had been an equipment installer for the Western Electric Co. He was a Navy veteran of the Korean War.

He leaves his wife, Mrs. Sharon Deonier, a son, Barrett Deonier, and a stepdaughter, Miss Lisa Bumgardner, all of the home; his father, John Deonier, Eudora, Kan.; three brothers, Burney Deonier, Eudora, J.W. Deonier, Sarcoxie, Mo., and Dick Deonier, Indiana; and two sisters, Mrs. Carol Closhier, Washington, and Mrs. Betty Atkinson, Wellington, Texas.

Services will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday at the Church-Archer-Pasley Chapel, Liberty; cremations. Friends may call from 7 to 8 pm. today at the chapel.