27 May 2006
The Garden City Telegram
Garden City, Kansas
SUBLETTE - James Kenneth "Ken" Cearley, 70, Sublette, died Tuesday, Feb.
11, 2003, at Satanta District Hospital.
He was born Feb. 29, 1932, at Sparks, Okla., the son of Tracy James and
Myrtle Marie Frazier Cearley.
Mr. Cearley began his teaching career in 1953 at Sparks. He then taught
at Langdon from 1954 to 1957, and at Lakin from 1957 to 1960. In 1960,
he moved to Sublette where he taught social studies at Sublette High
School. He also served as basketball, football and golf coach during his
years of teaching, which spanned 40 years.
He was a member of the United Methodist Church of Sublette, Masonic
Tyrian Lodge of Garden City, Median Shrine and Wichita Consistory, both
at Wichita, and a retired member of the Kansas National Education
Association. He loved spending time with his family, was an avid golfer,
and also enjoyed fishing, K-State football games and traveling.
On Aug. 17, 1952, he married Ruth O. Green at Meeker, Okla. She died
March 13, 1986. He also was preceded in death by his parents and a
sister, Alice Barnett.
On Feb. 6, 1987, he married Sue (Spradlin) Roberts at Sublette. She
survives. He also is survived by three sons, James Michael Cearley and
Michael Lee Cearley, both of Sublette, and Rex Lee Cearley of Abilene; a
daughter, Suzan Kay Kimball of Sublette; two stepdaughters, Sarah
Roberts of Tonganoxie, and Mary Dixon of Longmont, Colo.; 14
grandchildren; and one great-granddaughter.
Funeral will be 2 p.m. Friday at the United Methodist Church, Sublette,
with the Rev. Keith Fink officiating. Burial will be in Haskell County
Cemetery, Sublette, with Masonic graveside rites conducted.
Visitation hours are until 8 tonight and from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday
at Haskell County Funeral Home, Sublette. Memorials are suggested to
Wonderful World Of Youth, Order of the Eastern Star, the United
Methodist Church of Sublette or the Cimarron Valley Golf Association,
all in care of the funeral home, Box 607, Sublette, KS 67877.
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