Obituary from Wichita Eagle March 26, 1973:
H.M. Tomlinson, Former Sheriff, Dies at Age 74
Harlow M. (Tommy) Tomlinson, 74, former Sedgwick County sheriff, died Sunday.
Tomlinson, 756 S. Broadview, was Sedgwick County sheriff from 1963 to 1965, the only Republican in that office in the last 22 years. He defeated the then Democratic Marshal Vern Miller.
Born June 17, 1898, in Iowa, he was brought to Eskridge, Kan., in 1900 where his father was a veterinarian.
Graduating from high school in 1917, Tomlinson worked in midwest oil fields til 1931. He met Grace Epperson in El Dorado and married her in 1919.
Tomlinson joined the Wichita Police department as a patrolman in 1931 where he served as detective and lie-detector operator.
He served with the sheriff's department for a year and a half from 1937 to 1939 then returned to the Wichita Police Department.
After World War II Tomlinson returned to Wichita in 1946 and opened a detective agency which sold police equipment and did lie-detector work.
He left the agency to successfully campaign for sheriff in 1962.
Tomlinson was a life-time member of Kansas Peace Officers Association. He was also a member of Hillside Christian Church, Bestor G. Brown Lodge, Wichita Consistory, Midian Shrine, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and the American Legion.
Survivors include his widow, Grace and three sons Warren E., Wichita, Tommie L., Boulder, Colo., and William J., Arlington Heights, Ill. Byrd-Snodgrass Funeral Home Downton has charge.
Memorials have been established with the Wichita Police Department Benefit Fund and Hillside Christian Church.
H.M. Tomlinson, Former Sheriff, Dies at Age 74
Harlow M. (Tommy) Tomlinson, 74, former Sedgwick County sheriff, died Sunday.
Tomlinson, 756 S. Broadview, was Sedgwick County sheriff from 1963 to 1965, the only Republican in that office in the last 22 years. He defeated the then Democratic Marshal Vern Miller.
Born June 17, 1898, in Iowa, he was brought to Eskridge, Kan., in 1900 where his father was a veterinarian.
Graduating from high school in 1917, Tomlinson worked in midwest oil fields til 1931. He met Grace Epperson in El Dorado and married her in 1919.
Tomlinson joined the Wichita Police department as a patrolman in 1931 where he served as detective and lie-detector operator.
He served with the sheriff's department for a year and a half from 1937 to 1939 then returned to the Wichita Police Department.
After World War II Tomlinson returned to Wichita in 1946 and opened a detective agency which sold police equipment and did lie-detector work.
He left the agency to successfully campaign for sheriff in 1962.
Tomlinson was a life-time member of Kansas Peace Officers Association. He was also a member of Hillside Christian Church, Bestor G. Brown Lodge, Wichita Consistory, Midian Shrine, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and the American Legion.
Survivors include his widow, Grace and three sons Warren E., Wichita, Tommie L., Boulder, Colo., and William J., Arlington Heights, Ill. Byrd-Snodgrass Funeral Home Downton has charge.
Memorials have been established with the Wichita Police Department Benefit Fund and Hillside Christian Church.
Obituary from Wichita Eagle March 26, 1973:
H.M. Tomlinson, Former Sheriff, Dies at Age 74
Harlow M. (Tommy) Tomlinson, 74, former Sedgwick County sheriff, died Sunday.
Tomlinson, 756 S. Broadview, was Sedgwick County sheriff from 1963 to 1965, the only Republican in that office in the last 22 years. He defeated the then Democratic Marshal Vern Miller.
Born June 17, 1898, in Iowa, he was brought to Eskridge, Kan., in 1900 where his father was a veterinarian.
Graduating from high school in 1917, Tomlinson worked in midwest oil fields til 1931. He met Grace Epperson in El Dorado and married her in 1919.
Tomlinson joined the Wichita Police department as a patrolman in 1931 where he served as detective and lie-detector operator.
He served with the sheriff's department for a year and a half from 1937 to 1939 then returned to the Wichita Police Department.
After World War II Tomlinson returned to Wichita in 1946 and opened a detective agency which sold police equipment and did lie-detector work.
He left the agency to successfully campaign for sheriff in 1962.
Tomlinson was a life-time member of Kansas Peace Officers Association. He was also a member of Hillside Christian Church, Bestor G. Brown Lodge, Wichita Consistory, Midian Shrine, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and the American Legion.
Survivors include his widow, Grace and three sons Warren E., Wichita, Tommie L., Boulder, Colo., and William J., Arlington Heights, Ill. Byrd-Snodgrass Funeral Home Downton has charge.
Memorials have been established with the Wichita Police Department Benefit Fund and Hillside Christian Church.
H.M. Tomlinson, Former Sheriff, Dies at Age 74
Harlow M. (Tommy) Tomlinson, 74, former Sedgwick County sheriff, died Sunday.
Tomlinson, 756 S. Broadview, was Sedgwick County sheriff from 1963 to 1965, the only Republican in that office in the last 22 years. He defeated the then Democratic Marshal Vern Miller.
Born June 17, 1898, in Iowa, he was brought to Eskridge, Kan., in 1900 where his father was a veterinarian.
Graduating from high school in 1917, Tomlinson worked in midwest oil fields til 1931. He met Grace Epperson in El Dorado and married her in 1919.
Tomlinson joined the Wichita Police department as a patrolman in 1931 where he served as detective and lie-detector operator.
He served with the sheriff's department for a year and a half from 1937 to 1939 then returned to the Wichita Police Department.
After World War II Tomlinson returned to Wichita in 1946 and opened a detective agency which sold police equipment and did lie-detector work.
He left the agency to successfully campaign for sheriff in 1962.
Tomlinson was a life-time member of Kansas Peace Officers Association. He was also a member of Hillside Christian Church, Bestor G. Brown Lodge, Wichita Consistory, Midian Shrine, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and the American Legion.
Survivors include his widow, Grace and three sons Warren E., Wichita, Tommie L., Boulder, Colo., and William J., Arlington Heights, Ill. Byrd-Snodgrass Funeral Home Downton has charge.
Memorials have been established with the Wichita Police Department Benefit Fund and Hillside Christian Church.
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