Butler County KS Archives Obituaries.....Wait, M. A.  October 13, 1932
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The El Dorado Times, October 13, 1932
Former County Official Dead

End Comes to M. A. Wait At His Home In Wichita; Was A Butler Pioneer

M. A. Wait of Wichita, former Butler County Commissioner and the father of H. 
M. Wait, of El Dorado, Democratic candidate for county clerk was found dead in 
his bed early this morning at his home in Wichita. Mr. Wait's death was 
discovered by Mrs. Wait when she went to awaken him. Heart failure was 
attributed as the cause. He was 75 years old.

Funeral services will be held at the Christian Church in Towanda, tomorrow 
afternoon at 3 o'clock with Rev. R. S. Hendrickson, of Whitewater, officiating. 
Interment will be made at Towanda. The body will lie in state at the Downing 
Mortuary in Wichita, tomorrow from 10 o'clock until 2.

Mr. Waite was one of the successful farmers and stockmen of Butler County and 
was a resident of Towanda from 1871 until about 10 years ago when he moved to 
Wichita. He took a keen interest in political affairs, serving three terms as 
trustee of Towanda Township and in 1912 being elected county commissioner of 
the Third District.

Born in Illinois

Mr. Wait was a native of Livingston County, Ill., having been born there in 
1856. He was married to Florence L. Stevens in Towada on April 9, 1885. He 
attended the public schools of Illinois in early boyhood and later those at 
Nevada, Mo., where the family had removed. Soon afterwards they came to Kansas 
where they settled on a farm a mile and a half west of Towanda.

Surviving are his wife, three sons, H. M. Wait of El Dorado, Dell Wait, of 
Towanda and Frank Wait of Wichita, and a duaghter Mrs. Nace Thompson of Towanda.

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