JOHN DEBOLT

LAMAR- Services will be held at 10 a.m. Friday at Lamar First Baptist Church for John Clayton DeBolt, 95, Lamar, who died at his home on Friday, March 2, 2018, Pastor Robb Hodson will officiate. Burial will be in Memory Gardens Cemetery.

Arrangements are under the direction of Daniel Funeral Home.

Visitation will be held from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday, at the funeral home.

Contributions are suggested to the Lamar First Baptist Church, in care of the funeral home.

Condolences may be shared at www.danielfuneralhome.net.

Survivors include sons, Jeffrey Clayton DeBolt, Southaven, Miss. and John Kristopher DeBolt and wife Vicki, North Richland Hills, Texas; daughters, Linda Kay Ubrig and husband Karl, Dassel, Germany and Cynthia Corrine Shelton and husband Bennie, Forsyth; 10 grandchildren, Benjamin John Sheldon and wife Becky, Wesley David Shelton, Jonathan James DeBolt, William Clayton DeBolt and wife Elizabeth, Cindy Alberson and husband Trey, Aimee Schultz and husband Stefan, Jonny Ubrig and wife Shandella, Anna Ubrig and Judy Schrumpf; 12 great-grandchildren, Bailey, Bryce, Karis, Audrey, Joleen, Kenny, Ava, Blake, Amy, Nash, Jakob and Benni; nephew, Jim Blanton and wife Pat and niece, Cathy Ann Pfligenstafer and husband John.

He was preceded in death by a brother, Charles Robert DeBolt and a sister, Marjorie Jean Blanton.

Mr. DeBolt was born Sept. 20, 1922, in Chanute, Kan., to Charles Clayton and Roberta Jeanette (Heminger) DeBolt. He graduated high school and served his country in the United States Navy during WWII, from 1943-1946. After returning from the war he continued his education, graduating from Kansas State College of Pittsburg with a Master of Science “Guidance Counseling” on Aug. 4, 1967 and Bachelor of Science in Commerce on June 2, 1949. He taught in Weaubleau, Golden City and Lockwood before moving to Lamar in 1973, where he served as the school administrator for 11 years until his retirement in 1984.

He was a member of Lamar First Baptist Church, Lamar Lions Club, the church choir, was a Sunday school teacher and a lifetime deacon.

He married Myrdith Corene Sullivan in Norman, Okla., on June 1, 1946. She died in 2005.