Kay County OK Obit for: Robert James Sanders 
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Submitted to the archives by:Claudia Thiry, workfarm@kskc.net
Date submitted: 3/12/2003 
Transcribed from the Ponca City News, 
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Robert James Sanders

SUN CITY, Kan. - Robert James Sanders, resident of Sun City, Kan. 
and a former Ponca City resident, died Friday, July 12, 1996 in 
Burbank at the home of his daughter. He was 69.

The funeral will be Tuesday, July 16, 1996 in the Forsyth Funeral Home 
in Medicine Lodge, Kan. with the Rev. Mike Shinkle officiating. Burial 
will be in the Sunnyside Cemetery in Sun City, Kan. under direction of 
the Forsyth Funeral Home, Medicine Lodge, Kan.

Robert James Sanders was born Jan. 7, 1927 in Hazelton, Kan., the son 
of William H. and Hazel A. DeMint Sanders. 

He grew up in Medicine Lodge, Kan. where he resided until moving to 
Ponca City in 1955. He lived here until 1979 when he moved to Sun City.

He had been the sexton of The Sunnyside Cemetery and had served on the 
Sun City City Council.

He and Virginia June Smith were married Sept. 26, 1954 in Medicine Lodge, 
Kan. and she preceded him in death on Jan. 3, 1992.

Surviving are two daughters, Roberta Jane Campbell of Burbank and Constance 
Powell of Wichita, Kan.; a son, James Hotchkiss of Wichita; one stepson, 
Larry Tedrow of Ponca City and a stepdaughter, Mary Ham, also of Ponca 
City; three brothers, Tweed of Castro Valley, Calif., Leo and Ervin, 
both of Anthony, Kan.; two sisters, Ruby Darling of Clearwater, Kan. 
and Marie Richardson of Garden City, Kan.; also seven step-grandchildren 
and 11 step-great-grandchildren.

Friends may call at the funeral home until 8 o'clock tonight and from 
8 a.m. until service time Tuesday.

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