Digital Augusta

Augusta, Kansas

1988-11-21
Collection: 1988

Title

1988-11-21

Subject

Cash, Clovis G.

Small, Edith Sarah

Description

Obituaries published in the Augusta Daily Gazette

Creator

Augusta Daily Gazette, Augusta, Kansas, USA

Source

Augusta Historical Museum, Augusta, Kansas, USA

Publisher

Augusta Public Library, Augusta, Kansas, USA

Date

1988-11-21

Format

Clippings

Language

English

Type

application/pdf



Citation
Augusta Daily Gazette, Augusta, Kansas, USA, “1988-11-21,” Digital Augusta, accessed May 3, 2024, https://augusta.digitalsckls.info/item/617.
Text

Monday, November 21, 1988
Businessman Cash dies; funeral 2 p.m. Tuesday
Clovis G. Cash, 86, of Augusta died Sunday, Nov. 20.
His funeral will be at 2 o’clock Tuesday afternoon, Nov. 22, at the First Baptist Church, State & Kelly. Rev. Bob Box will officiate.
Clovis was born Dec. 27, 1901 to Henry H. and Martha J. Cash near Stanford, Ky.
His parents came to Kansas in 1906 and resided on a farm near the Haverhill and Fairview communities. Following the father’s death in 1908, the family moved to Augusta.
Immediately after graduation from high school, Clovis was employed by the George W. Brown & Son State Bank from 1919 to 1929. Following this he was manager of the First National Bank Insurance Agency until 1933 when he purchased the agency and operated it under his own name.
Clovis soon expanded the business to include real estate and home loans. He also engaged in oil well drilling and oil production in Butler, Cowley and Sumner counties with partner, the late Harold U. Martin. He retired from the oil business in 1956, but continued other businesses.
At various times he was a director and president of the Augusta Chamber of Commerce, a member of the Augusta United Way board, and served on the school board. He was one of the co-developers of the Park Place subdivision in Augusta. He was an original stockholder and director of the Augusta Bank & Trust, later selling his interest. He was a co-organizer and director of Copeland Acid Service. During the planning stages of the Augusta Medical Complex he served on the hospital board.
Clovis, a long time member of the First Baptist Church, had served on various boards including the building committee of the present structure and was an honorary deacon. He was a member of Kiwanis Club since 1926, having served as lieutenant governor in 1935 of Division Six, a 3-state area.
Because of his continued interest and support of LeTourneau College in Longview, Texas, Clovis and his wife were named members of the LeTourneau College Council in 1970.
He was a member of the Mystic Tie Lodge 74 AF & AM of Augusta and the Scottish Rite Bodies of Wichita Consistory.
Survivors include his wife, Gladys; two daughters, Jo Janette Casey and Carolyn L. Price, both of Augusta; four grandchildren, Lisa Bowman of Littleton Colorado, Karen Casey of Wichita, David Price of Denton, Texas, John Price of Shawnee, Okla.; one great-grandchild, Kyle Bowman of Littleton; sister, Mrs. Ida Perkins of Tampa, Texas; and four nieces.
Memorials have been suggested to Alive in Missions of the Augusta First Baptist Church and Cal Farley’s Boys Ranch, Box 1890, Amarillo, Texas, 79174-9989.
Dunsford Funeral Home of Augusta has the arrangements.

Augustan’s mother died Saturday
Edith Sarah Small, 97, formerly of Wichita and mother of Pat Small of Augusta, died Saturday, Nov. 19, in Placerville, Calif.
Her services will be 11 a.m. Wednesday at the Broadway Mortuary. Burial will be in the White Chapel Cemetery.
Edith was born in 1891 in Oxford to William and Arkatie (Gilman) Bernard. At the age of 2 her father made the run of the opening of the Cherokee strip and
staked out his claim for their future home, which was a few miles east of Cherokee, Okla.
She married George Small in 1907 and had two sons and one daughter. In 1927 they moved to Wichita and were one of the pioneers of south Wichita.
Three sisters, four brothers, a son, Bernard Albert Small and grandson, George Richardson Small preceded her in death.
Survivors include a sister, Gerturde Stottlemeyer of Sand Springs, Okla.; son, Pat Small of Augusta; daughter, Ruth Kaiser of Cameron Park, Calif.; 11 grandchildren; 25 great-grandchildren; and 10 great-great-grandchildren.

Original Format

Newspaper clipping