Butler County KS Archives Obituaries.....Whitwam, Warren Lemuel June 5, 1933
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The El Dorado Times, June 6, 1933
Warren Lemuel Whitwam Dies

Warren Lemuel Whitwam, aged 19 years, son of Rev. and Mrs. Charles D. Whitwam, 
of Wichita, former residents of El Dorado, when Mr. Whitwam was pastor of the 
Methodist Church, ehre, died late yesterday at Wichita. Death occurred just a 
week after he was injured in an automobile accident at Wichita. He, with 
Richard Earl Newkirk and Vernon Cook were in an automobile that ran into a 
field and overturned.

Newkirk died last Wednesday. Cook was not injured seriously.]

Whitwam did not regain consciousness following the accident.

He was a member of Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church. He was graduated from 
Wichita High School North last year and was attending the University of Wichita 
at the time he was injured. His father is district superintendent of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church. He is survived by his parents and seven sisters, 
Ninabelle, Juanita Rowena, Helen, Dorothy, Nonina Ruth and Donna Esther. 
Culbertson Mortuary is in charge.

Funeral services will be held at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning at the Trinity 
Episcopal Church, at Wichita. It is expected that a number of El Dorado friends 
of the Whitwam family will attend.

The El Dorado Times
June 9, 1933

Warren Lemuel Whitwam, the fourth child and only son of Rev. and Mrs. Charles 
D. Whitwam, was born in Wichita, on July 26, 1913. As the result of an 
automobile accident, he died in Wichita Hospital on June 5, 1933 and at the 
time of his death was 19 years, 10 months and 9 days old.

Warren was named after Bishop Warren who ordained his father a deacon in the 
Methodist Episcopal Church. When a year old, he was baptised, the ordinance 
being administered in Sedgwick, by the great Thomas Corwin Iliff well known to 
all Methodism.  When he was almost nine years old at Greensburg, he was 
receivedinto membership in the church, his father being privileged to have the 
honor of hearing him take the vows.

Warren attended school in various places where his parents lived but the most 
of his High School education was obtained in Wichita where he was graduated 
from the Wichita High School North with the class of 1932. At the time of his 
death, he was completing his first at Wichita University. He was pledged to the 
Zeta Delta Epsilon Fraternity and was happy in his school work.

A boy of naturally a glad, happy disposition, Warren made friends easily. From 
the time when his parents moved to Wichita almost four years ago, he had 
clerked on Saturdays at the C. A. Richardson Grocery Store.

At the time of his death he was a member of Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church 
and of the College Class in the Sunday School. At one time, for more than a 
year, he taught a Sundy School Class of boys.

Mourning his death he leaves his father, mother, and seven sisters of the 
immediate family. The sisters are: Nina Bell, Juanita, Rowena, Helen, Dorothy, 
Monna Ruth and Donna Esther. Others of the family are Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Shoup 
the grandparents of Mulvane, and a large number of other relatives.

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