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John Ralph Austin

Birth: 17 Nov 1880
Death: 15 Jan 1976 (aged 95)
Quinter, Gove County, Kansas, USA
Burial: Union Cemetery

Collyer, Trego County, Kansas, USA Show Map GPS-Latitude: 39.0305659, Longitude: -100.1127383
Memorial ID: 30662626 View Source

Salina Journal, Salina, Kansas
January 15, 1976
John R. Austin
WaKeeney - The funeral for John Ralph Austin, 95, Collyer, will be at 2 pm Saturday at the Hendricks funeral home, WaKeeney, the Rev. Paul Life officiating. Mr. Austin died Thursday at the Grove county hospital, Quinter. He was born Nov. 17 1880, at Culver and attended schools in the Culver and Salina areas. He went to Western Kansas as a young man and worked as a mail carrier on Collyer rural routes from 1908 until 1950. Collier is west of WaKeeney in western Trego County. Surviving are a daughter-in-law, Mrs. Claude Austin Sr., WaKeeney; a sister-in-law Lillian Curry, Collyer; 8 grandchildren; 25 great-grandchildren and a great-great-grandchild. Burial will be in the Collyer cemetery. Friends may call from 4 to 9 pm Friday and from 8 am until funeral time Saturday at the funeral home.
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Salina Journal, Salina, Kansas
January 15, 1976
John R. Austin
WaKeeney - The funeral for John Ralph Austin, 95, Collyer, will be at 2 pm Saturday at the Hendricks funeral home, WaKeeney, the Rev. Paul Life officiating. Mr. Austin died Thursday at the Grove county hospital, Quinter. He was born Nov. 17 1880, at Culver and attended schools in the Culver and Salina areas. He went to Western Kansas as a young man and worked as a mail carrier on Collyer rural routes from 1908 until 1950. Collier is west of WaKeeney in western Trego County. Surviving are a daughter-in-law, Mrs. Claude Austin Sr., WaKeeney; a sister-in-law Lillian Curry, Collyer; 8 grandchildren; 25 great-grandchildren and a great-great-grandchild. Burial will be in the Collyer cemetery. Friends may call from 4 to 9 pm Friday and from 8 am until funeral time Saturday at the funeral home.
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Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/30662626/john_ralph-austin: accessed ), memorial page for John Ralph Austin (17 Nov 1880–15 Jan 1976), Find a Grave Memorial ID 30662626, citing Union Cemetery, Collyer, Trego County, Kansas, USA; Maintained by Steve McCray (contributor 46984445).

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