Barton County KS Archives Obituaries.....Engleman, O. Dale October 17, 2005
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Engleman, O. Dale
Birth: 8-14-1920
Death: 10-17-2005

b. & d. Great Bend KS Barton co, The only child of O.D. and Elsa Tucker
Engleman. He married Jane Fisher on Nov. 21, 1944, in Wichita Falls, Texas. She
survives. He graduated from Great Bend High School in 1938. He spent his college
freshman year at Georgia Military Academy, his sophomore year at Santa Monica
Junior College and two years at U.C.L.A. He lived in Beverly Hills for six
years, volunteering for the US Air Corps and became a certified safety engineer
for Douglas Aircraft stationed at LAX. He returned to Great Bend in 1947 to farm
and in 1949 was one of the founders of Security State Bank where he was Vice
President for 28 years, retiring in 1985. For thirteen years, beginning in 1961,
he was part owner and on the board of directors for the Timken State Bank,
Timken. During those years, he served on the Great Bend Chamber of Commerce as
President and board member, and as President and board member of Great Bend
Industrial Development Corporation. He was one of the organizers of the Kansas
Association of Bank Agricultural Representatives, was a board member and served
as President and Building Chairman organizing the Kansas Bankers dormitory
located in Rock Springs as a Kansas banker's gift for all Kansas 4-H members. He
also served as a director for Sunflower Diversified Services securing their
present building and location. During the consolidation of District 428 County
Schools, he served two terms on the school board. He served as Building Chairman
for the initial successful building, planning and execution of Camp Aldrich for
the Girl Scouts of America. He served as a member of the Board of Directors,
Great Bend Cemetery and Great Bend Noon Lions Club. He was the eldest
great-grandchild of Henry and Wilhelmina von Schaeffer, from Germany and
Holland, who helped lay out the City of Great Bend, built the first frame
building and courthouse in the city, and gave the initial land for the present
Great Bend Cemetery. Later, selling the balance of the present cemetery to the
city from his 160-acre homestead farm, located from the present cemetery to 10th
Street. He was the eldest grandchild of George Washington Tucker, a County
Commissioner, who was involved in building the present courthouse. He was very
proud of his history, heritage and pioneer background. He was preceded in death
by: a son, Scott, in 1978.


Additional Comments:
Buried in Great Bend Cemetery
Great Bend, Barton County, Kansas




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