| Ivan R. Montgomery |
Ivan R. Montgomery, 73, of Sabetha, Kansas, died Thursday,
July 6, 2000, of an apparent heart attack at a Phoenix, Arizona hospital.
He and his wife, Mary, were visiting their daughter, Marie Haywood,
when he suddenly became ill. 
He was born January 22, 1927, at Sabetha, the son of Robert and Ione
Trees Montgomery. He graduated from Sabetha High School in 1945 and
attended Baker University at Baldwin, Kansas for a year. He served
in the US Army in post-World War II Germany. Besides farming, he was
employed at the Bern Meat Plant, Meyer Lumber in Seneca, the Case
Dealership in Centralia, and CR Industries at Seneca, Kansas, as a
mold hiker for 19 years. He retired in 1998 from CR and continued
to do some farming. He was married to Mary Meyer on August 8, 1948 at Sabetha. They celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in 1998. She survives of the home. After their marriage, they went to college at Baker for a year before returning to farm south of Oneida for two years. They moved to a farm south of Bern where they lived and farmed for 48 years. They moved to Sabetha in February of 2000. He was a member of the United Methodist Church at Bern. He was a member of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, Local 100A, Unit 800. In the late 1960's he worked several years to help establish and maintain the Bern Rural Water District #1. Survivors beside his wife, Mary, of the home are: a son, Paul Montgomery of Topeka, Kansas; a daughter, Marie Haywood of Glendale, Arizona; two brothers, Aurel Montgomery of Sabetha and Carol Montgomery of Loveland, Colorado; a sister, Ruth Hankins of Raytown, Missouri; and two grandchildren. He was preceded in death by a stillborn granddaughter, Emily Montgomery, on August 22, 1985. Private funeral services will be held at 10:30 A.M. Monday at the Lauer Funeral Home in Seneca, Kansas. He will lie in state at the funeral home after 2 P.M. on Sunday. The burial will be in the Albany Cemetery at Sabetha, Kansas. Memorial contributions may be given for the Seneca Library and sent in care of the family. |
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