Roger Mills Co. - Obit for Fred "Leroy" Lacey

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Obit for Fred "Leroy" Lacey

Fred "Leroy" Lacey, born March 31, 1931 in Hammon, Oklahoma, son of Fred
Clinton Lacey and Henrietta "Etta" Wright Lacey died Tuesday the 13 of
November 2001 in Eldorado, Kansas.  He grew up on the Lacey homestead in the
Kiowa community and attended Hammon schools.  While visiting other members
of this family in Porter, Oklahoma he met and married Gracia "Lawanda"
Denson.  To this union were born five children: Ronnie, Bruce, Frank, James,
and Dawanna.

After the birth of his first child, the family moved to California where
LeRoy worked as a machinst.  They moved to Kansas in 1967.  Lawanda died
October 3, 1970 in an automobile accident.

For the past several years, LeRoy suffered from emphysema.  His children
stood by helping him to cope.  "God saw he was getting tired and a cure was
not to be.  So he put his arms around him and whispered "come with me."
With tearful eyes we watched him suffer and saw him fade away.  Although we
couldn't bear to lose him, we could not bid him stay.  A golden heart
stopped beating, hard working hands laid to rest, God broke our hearts to
prove to us, he only takes the best."

LeRoy was preceded in death by his wife, Lawanda and his parents, Fred
and Etta Lacey; brothers, R.J. and Ray and sister, Fay.  He is survived by
his children: Ronnie of Casady, Kansas; Bruce of Potwin, Kansas, Frank of
Leon, Kansas and James of Casady and daughter Dawanna Mauldin of El Doraado,
Kansas and a sister Mary Etta "Billie" Cash, Muskogee, Oklahoma;
grandchildren: Bruce Lacey, Jr., Ashley Hobbs, James Mauldin, and Dylan
Mauldin; great grandchildren: Taylor Lacey and Paige Lacey.

Memorial service was held at Sunset Lawns Cemetery at El Dorado, Kansas
on Friday, November 16, 2001.

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