Butler County KS Archives Obituaries.....Whitestine, Oscar Leonard January 1963
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The El Dorado Times, January 9, 1963
Funeral Rites for O. L. Whitestine Are Set for 3:30 p.m. Thursday

Funeral services for Oscar Leonard Whitestone, 426 Cave Springs, who died 
Tuesday afternoon at Allen Memorial Hospital after a short illness will be held 
at 3:30 p.m. Thursday at the Kirby Funeral Home chapel.

Mr. Whitestine, 67, an employee of the El Dorado Times for 39 years was a 
typographical compositor. He had been associated with The Times since about 
four years after it came into existence as a merger of the Old Walnut Valley 
Times and El Dorado Republican.

Officiating at services will be the Rev. Kenneth E. Garrison, pastor of the 
First Christian Church. Interment will be made in Walnut Valley Memorial Park, 
with Masonic rites conducted at graveside by members of Patmos Lodge No. 97 
A.F. & A.M.

Employees of The Times will attend services in a group.

Mr. Whitestine was born July 18, 1895 at Galena, Kan. He and Zella Irene Hulse 
were married Nov. 25, 1915 at Columbus, Kan. They moved to El Dorado from 
Girard, Kan., in 1923.

Always an enthusiastic worker in the Boy Scout program, Mr. Whitestine had been 
associated with Scouting here for 36 years. He was awarded the Silver Beaver 
Award in Boy Scouting in 1949.

He was widely known and revered among Scouting circles in the Flint Hills 
District of Quivira Council, Boy Scouts of America.

Mr. Whitestine came to El Dorado from Girard - and had been a faithful employee 
of The Times for 39 years. His was one of the longest periods of unbroken 
service of any of the present employees. He was a compositor both for the 
newspaper's job department and its advertising "alley."  During the years of 
World War II, he supervised the move of The Times Press from its former 
location in the Sheldon building to the Sluss building on South Main and 
directed its affairs.

He remained with The Times Press as a compositor for several years after the 
war when he was transferred from the job printing post to that of advertising 
in this newspaper's main plant. There he remained as a regular employee, doing 
his work diligently until a few days before his death.

"Whitey", as he was called familiarly by his associates, was well liked. He was 
a prime fixture in "The Times Fam-i-lee," entered into all its activities with 
good cheer and enthusiasm and was loyal to its best interests.

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