Vernon Harley Banzet, 68, of rural Chetopa, Kansas, died at 3:45 p.m., Tuesday June 24, 2008, at St. John's Regional Hospital in Joplin, Missouri, after a year-long battle with lung cancer.
He was born to Wayne, Sr. and Reva (Kessler) Banzet on January 3, 1940, in Northeast Oklahoma.
He graduated from Labette County Community High School in 1958. He attended Northeastern A&M College, at Miami, Oklahoma; Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas; and University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas. He also attended an auctioneering school in Mason City, Iowa.
He won numerous 4-H awards while in high school. He belonged to the Foland Fliers 4-H Club for 11 years. In 1959, he won the Kansas State 4-H Who's Who Award.
His work in Soil and Water Conservation won him a trip to the National 4-H Congress Assembly in Chicago during June, 1959. In addition to his trip, he won a scholarship from Firestone and was chosen to be on Don McNeil's radio broadcast of "Breakfast Club." He was a Sixth Ring Member of the United States Olympic Committee.
He worked in Kansas City from 1964 to 1971. He then returned to the family farm where he farmed and was a dairyman until illness forced his retirement in June 2007. For the past year, he had resided at the Home Place in Oswego.
His survivors include two brothers, Wayne Banzet, Jr., and his wife, Alice, of Oswego; Gerald Banzet and his wife, Joyce, of Kalispell, MT; sister, Janice Greisen and her husband, Leon, of Medford, Oregon; four nephews, three nieces, and numerous great-nieces and great-nephews.
He was preceded in death by his parents, and nephew, Leay Banzet.
Graveside services are scheduled for 2:00 p.m., Monday, June 30, 2008, at the North Edna Cemetery, Edna, Kansas. Friends may call at the Bath-Forbes-Hoffman Funeral Home in Chetopa from 10:00 a.m., to 7:30 p.m., Sunday.
Memorials are suggested to the American Cancer Society. These may be left at or mailed to Bath-Forbes-Hoffman Funeral Home, P.O. Box 346, Chetopa, KS 67336. To order memorial trees or send flowers to the family in memory of Vernon Harley Banzet, please visit our flower store.
He was born to Wayne, Sr. and Reva (Kessler) Banzet on January 3, 1940, in Northeast Oklahoma.
He graduated from Labette County Community High School in 1958. He attended Northeastern A&M College, at Miami, Oklahoma; Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas; and University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas. He also attended an auctioneering school in Mason City, Iowa.
He won numerous 4-H awards while in high school. He belonged to the Foland Fliers 4-H Club for 11 years. In 1959, he won the Kansas State 4-H Who's Who Award.
His work in Soil and Water Conservation won him a trip to the National 4-H Congress Assembly in Chicago during June, 1959. In addition to his trip, he won a scholarship from Firestone and was chosen to be on Don McNeil's radio broadcast of "Breakfast Club." He was a Sixth Ring Member of the United States Olympic Committee.
He worked in Kansas City from 1964 to 1971. He then returned to the family farm where he farmed and was a dairyman until illness forced his retirement in June 2007. For the past year, he had resided at the Home Place in Oswego.
His survivors include two brothers, Wayne Banzet, Jr., and his wife, Alice, of Oswego; Gerald Banzet and his wife, Joyce, of Kalispell, MT; sister, Janice Greisen and her husband, Leon, of Medford, Oregon; four nephews, three nieces, and numerous great-nieces and great-nephews.
He was preceded in death by his parents, and nephew, Leay Banzet.
Graveside services are scheduled for 2:00 p.m., Monday, June 30, 2008, at the North Edna Cemetery, Edna, Kansas. Friends may call at the Bath-Forbes-Hoffman Funeral Home in Chetopa from 10:00 a.m., to 7:30 p.m., Sunday.
Memorials are suggested to the American Cancer Society. These may be left at or mailed to Bath-Forbes-Hoffman Funeral Home, P.O. Box 346, Chetopa, KS 67336. To order memorial trees or send flowers to the family in memory of Vernon Harley Banzet, please visit our flower store.
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