KINCHELOE, GAIL 
Superior Express 4-20-2003

Gail Leon Kincheloe was born June 25, 1939 at the home of his parents, Glen Wilbur 
and Celia C. Norton Kincheloe, west of Ionia, in Odessa Township, Jewell County. 
He died Apr. 11 in the Salina Regional Health Center, at the age of 63 years. 

He attended Ionia elementary school and graduated from Ionia Rural High School 
in 1957. Gail was inducted in the Army in June 1962, receiving training at Fort 
Leonard Wood, Mo., Fort Gordon, Ga., and Fort Sill, Okla., before being sent to 
Karlsrub, Germany. He served there until May 1964 when he received his honorable 
discharge. A highlight was a trip with two friends to Paris and on to the Rock of Gibraltar.

Gail has had many occupations in his lifetime: farming, employment at Richardsons's 
Mfg., Cawker City; construction with Kent's of Tipton; as a backhoe operator near 
Ithaca, N.Y. and with Central Colorado Construction Co., managed by Lewis 
Williams, a good friend.

Health conditions forced his retirement from work in 1978. Gail was 
honest, dependable, cheerful, good natured, lover of nature and animals. 
He always made sure that his pets, dogs and many cats, were well taken 
care of. He enjoyed relatives and special friends and spent many hours on 
the phone to them. He was a mechanic for cars, trucks and tractors. 
He enjoyed watching the weather and predicting what would happen. 
He always kept up on the latest news.

His hobbies were traveling, Denver Broncos football on TV, listening to 
daily news and weather, fishing, cooking, crossword puzzles, computer 
games, music and keeping in touch with family and friends.

Gail was preceded in death by grandparents, Floyd and Celeste Stites Kincheloe 
and Ralph and Louise Haseltine Norton; father, Glen W. Kincheloe and a favorite 
niece, Anita Louise Slaughter. Survivors include: his mother, Celia Norton 
Kincheloe, Cawker City; daughter, Lana R. Mabrey, Lake of the Ozarks, Mo.; 
step-son, Capt. Ronald M. Jones, Mannheim, Germany; sister, Marjorie 
Slaughter, Laramie, Wyo.; a grandson; four aunts; nieces and nephews.

Gail was privileged to have ancestors who fought for and settled in America so 
he could enjoy membership in the Society of Sons Of the American Republic. 
Being of English descent he was a direct descendant of twelve Mayflower 
Pilgrims and had life memberships in the Kansas Pilgrim Descendants Society 
and in the General Mayflower Society of Plymouth, Mass.

Funeral services were held Apr. 15 at United Methodist Church, Ionia, with 
Pastor Laura Fricker officiating. Honors rendered by American Legion Post #279. 
Interment in Ionia Cemetery. Arrangements were made by McDonald Roberts 
Funeral Service.