OSAGE CITY --- Winston W. Morehead, 80, Osage City, died Monday, Dec. 13, 1999, at home.
Mr. Morehead worked for Santa Fe Railway in the early 1940s and then farmed northeast of Osage City for many years.
He served in the Army Air Corps during World War II and was stationed at Forbes Air Field in Topeka when he was discharged with the rank of staff sergeant in December 1945.
He was born Feb. 15, 1919, at Paradise, Texas, the son of James Benjamin and Lola Murphy Morehead. He was raised in Oklahoma and graduated from Wayne, Okla., High School in 1939. He moved to the Osage City area in 1945.
Mr. Morehead was a member and elder of First Presbyterian Church in Osage City and a member of Robert Heizer Post No. 198 of the American Legion. He served on the Osage City High School board of directors, and he was the honorary Chapter Farmer for the Osage City High School FFA in 1965.
He married Margaret L. Regenold on Feb. 24, 1945, in Osage City. She survives.
Other survivors include a daughter, Linda Smutz, Olathe; a son, Bill Morehead, Osage City; two grandchildren; three stepgrandchildren; and several great-grandchildren.
Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Friday at the First Presbyterian Church in Osage City.
Burial with military honors conducted by Post No. 198 of the American Legion will be in the Osage City Cemetery.
Mr. Morehead will lie in state from 3 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Crable Funeral Chapel, where relatives and friends will meet from 7 to 8 p.m.
Memorial contributions may be made to the First Presbyterian Church in Osage City or the Hand in Hand Hospice of Emporia and sent in care of the funeral chapel.
Mr. Morehead worked for Santa Fe Railway in the early 1940s and then farmed northeast of Osage City for many years.
He served in the Army Air Corps during World War II and was stationed at Forbes Air Field in Topeka when he was discharged with the rank of staff sergeant in December 1945.
He was born Feb. 15, 1919, at Paradise, Texas, the son of James Benjamin and Lola Murphy Morehead. He was raised in Oklahoma and graduated from Wayne, Okla., High School in 1939. He moved to the Osage City area in 1945.
Mr. Morehead was a member and elder of First Presbyterian Church in Osage City and a member of Robert Heizer Post No. 198 of the American Legion. He served on the Osage City High School board of directors, and he was the honorary Chapter Farmer for the Osage City High School FFA in 1965.
He married Margaret L. Regenold on Feb. 24, 1945, in Osage City. She survives.
Other survivors include a daughter, Linda Smutz, Olathe; a son, Bill Morehead, Osage City; two grandchildren; three stepgrandchildren; and several great-grandchildren.
Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Friday at the First Presbyterian Church in Osage City.
Burial with military honors conducted by Post No. 198 of the American Legion will be in the Osage City Cemetery.
Mr. Morehead will lie in state from 3 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Crable Funeral Chapel, where relatives and friends will meet from 7 to 8 p.m.
Memorial contributions may be made to the First Presbyterian Church in Osage City or the Hand in Hand Hospice of Emporia and sent in care of the funeral chapel.
OSAGE CITY --- Winston W. Morehead, 80, Osage City, died Monday, Dec. 13, 1999, at home.
Mr. Morehead worked for Santa Fe Railway in the early 1940s and then farmed northeast of Osage City for many years.
He served in the Army Air Corps during World War II and was stationed at Forbes Air Field in Topeka when he was discharged with the rank of staff sergeant in December 1945.
He was born Feb. 15, 1919, at Paradise, Texas, the son of James Benjamin and Lola Murphy Morehead. He was raised in Oklahoma and graduated from Wayne, Okla., High School in 1939. He moved to the Osage City area in 1945.
Mr. Morehead was a member and elder of First Presbyterian Church in Osage City and a member of Robert Heizer Post No. 198 of the American Legion. He served on the Osage City High School board of directors, and he was the honorary Chapter Farmer for the Osage City High School FFA in 1965.
He married Margaret L. Regenold on Feb. 24, 1945, in Osage City. She survives.
Other survivors include a daughter, Linda Smutz, Olathe; a son, Bill Morehead, Osage City; two grandchildren; three stepgrandchildren; and several great-grandchildren.
Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Friday at the First Presbyterian Church in Osage City.
Burial with military honors conducted by Post No. 198 of the American Legion will be in the Osage City Cemetery.
Mr. Morehead will lie in state from 3 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Crable Funeral Chapel, where relatives and friends will meet from 7 to 8 p.m.
Memorial contributions may be made to the First Presbyterian Church in Osage City or the Hand in Hand Hospice of Emporia and sent in care of the funeral chapel.
Mr. Morehead worked for Santa Fe Railway in the early 1940s and then farmed northeast of Osage City for many years.
He served in the Army Air Corps during World War II and was stationed at Forbes Air Field in Topeka when he was discharged with the rank of staff sergeant in December 1945.
He was born Feb. 15, 1919, at Paradise, Texas, the son of James Benjamin and Lola Murphy Morehead. He was raised in Oklahoma and graduated from Wayne, Okla., High School in 1939. He moved to the Osage City area in 1945.
Mr. Morehead was a member and elder of First Presbyterian Church in Osage City and a member of Robert Heizer Post No. 198 of the American Legion. He served on the Osage City High School board of directors, and he was the honorary Chapter Farmer for the Osage City High School FFA in 1965.
He married Margaret L. Regenold on Feb. 24, 1945, in Osage City. She survives.
Other survivors include a daughter, Linda Smutz, Olathe; a son, Bill Morehead, Osage City; two grandchildren; three stepgrandchildren; and several great-grandchildren.
Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Friday at the First Presbyterian Church in Osage City.
Burial with military honors conducted by Post No. 198 of the American Legion will be in the Osage City Cemetery.
Mr. Morehead will lie in state from 3 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Crable Funeral Chapel, where relatives and friends will meet from 7 to 8 p.m.
Memorial contributions may be made to the First Presbyterian Church in Osage City or the Hand in Hand Hospice of Emporia and sent in care of the funeral chapel.
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