A Good Man Gone
Beloved Corvallis Character Answers Call of Inevitable
Hundreds of hearts in this vicinity were saddened Wednesday of last week by the death of Len Phetteplace, widely known resident in the county five miles southwest of this city. The end came after several years of failing health from heart trouble. Funeral services, attended by an especially large crowd, were held, Friday, in Corvallis church, and burial made in Cedar cemetery by the side of three children who had preceded him in death.
Lennie Orice Phetteplace was born in Spring Green, Wis., Sept. 25, 1869, and died near Smith Center, Kans., April 10, 1929 at the age of 59 years, six months and fifteen days. He came to Smith county with his parents in 1863, the family settling on a homestead that was the home of the deceased most of his life, and upon which he died. His marriage to Alice Crawford occurred in 1888. The deceased was a beautiful character full of the christian virtues of love, peace, gentleness and a broad charity for all. He had not an enemy in the world. He loved children and young people, and his happiest moments were spent in working with them in the Sunday School and church activities. Could such a life be spent in one community and not bear good fruit? That it left its deep impress is evidence by the universal sorrow over its closing, and the reverent manner in which the name of the deceased is mentioned when his kindly deeds and true christian bearing are recalled.
Mr. Phetteplace was the father of six children, three of whom, with the loyal wife and mother survive as follows: Mrs. John Burr of Monett, Mo; Justin of Purdy, Mo., and Earl, still at home.
We desire to tender our heartfelt thanks to the many who aided us by their kindly acts and words of sympathy during the illness and at the funeral of our beloved husband and father. -- Mrs. Phetteplace and children
Smith County Pioneer, April 18, 1929, page 1