Grave marker for Homer & Amy (Booth) Ring
Lot # 95, Powell Township Cemetery, Wilmore, Comanche County, Kansas.
Photo by Bobbi Huck.

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The Western Star, January 28, 1999.

Homer Ring

Homer Ring, 80, died Jan. 25, 1999, at Via Christi Regional Medical Center, St. Francis Campus, Wichita.

He was born north of Bucklin in Ford County, Feb. 19, 1918, to Fulton D. and Lutie Mae Mowbray Ring.

Ring was raised by his grandmother at Canton until he was 10, when he came to Wilmore in 1928, and lived in the Wilmore area most of his life. He was a farmer-rancher.

He was a member of Wilmore Federated Church, where he served on the board, and Comanche County Farm Bureau.

On Aug. 21, 1937, he married Amy Booth in a double wedding at Valley Center, with her sister Mabel Booth and Ivan Hadley.

In addition to his wife, survivors include: two sons, Roy Ring of Haviland and Ralph Ring of Wilmore; three grandchildren and one great grandchild.

Funeral will be at 2:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 29, 1999, at the Wilmore Federated Church with Rev. Kent Little presiding. Burial will be in Wilmore Cemetery. Friends may call at Fleener Chapel, Greensburg, 4-9 p.m. Thursday.

Memorials may be sent to the Kiowa County Memorial Hospital in Greensburg, and Wilmore cemetery, in care of Fleener Funeral Home of Greensburg.

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Roy Lee Ring, son of Homer & Amy (Booth) Ring.

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