LYONS - Clarence A. Patterson, 65, Rice county sheriff for the past four years and for nearly six years a county law enforcement officer, died unexpectedly at 9:40 a.m. Friday. Death apparently resulted from a blood clot.
Death came to the sheriff only 38 days before he was due to retire from office. He was hospitalized late Thursday when he became ill while at the jail residence.
With Sheriff-Elect D. C. Livingston, the present undersheriff, due to take office Jan. 12, there was some question Friday night how the interim-appointment would be filled by the governor.
Livingston said he will not take office immediately on the grounds that to do so would limit his statutory tenure under the 2-term rule for sheriffs in Kansas so he could not seek a second term in 1954.
Mr Patterson was a native of Lyons and was born here July 27, 1887. He farmed for many years north of Lyons and in 1946 joined the sheriff's office as a deputy under Herman Knitter. He was elected to the office in 1948 and reelected for a second term in 1950.
Survivors include the widow, Ivy, of the home; his mother, Mrs Minnie Patterson, Lyons; three sisters, Mrs Ida Brown and Mrs Neva Cline, both Lyons, and Mrs Floyd Judy, Yakima, Wash.; four brothers, Maurice, Lyons, Clifford, in California, Dave and Arel, both of Kansas City.
Funeral services will be at 2:30 p.m. in the Christian church here, the Rev. Kenneth McCullough officiating. Burial will be in the Lyons Cemetery.
from The Hutchinson News Herald
Saturday, 6 December 1952
LYONS - Clarence A. Patterson, 65, Rice county sheriff for the past four years and for nearly six years a county law enforcement officer, died unexpectedly at 9:40 a.m. Friday. Death apparently resulted from a blood clot.
Death came to the sheriff only 38 days before he was due to retire from office. He was hospitalized late Thursday when he became ill while at the jail residence.
With Sheriff-Elect D. C. Livingston, the present undersheriff, due to take office Jan. 12, there was some question Friday night how the interim-appointment would be filled by the governor.
Livingston said he will not take office immediately on the grounds that to do so would limit his statutory tenure under the 2-term rule for sheriffs in Kansas so he could not seek a second term in 1954.
Mr Patterson was a native of Lyons and was born here July 27, 1887. He farmed for many years north of Lyons and in 1946 joined the sheriff's office as a deputy under Herman Knitter. He was elected to the office in 1948 and reelected for a second term in 1950.
Survivors include the widow, Ivy, of the home; his mother, Mrs Minnie Patterson, Lyons; three sisters, Mrs Ida Brown and Mrs Neva Cline, both Lyons, and Mrs Floyd Judy, Yakima, Wash.; four brothers, Maurice, Lyons, Clifford, in California, Dave and Arel, both of Kansas City.
Funeral services will be at 2:30 p.m. in the Christian church here, the Rev. Kenneth McCullough officiating. Burial will be in the Lyons Cemetery.
from The Hutchinson News Herald
Saturday, 6 December 1952
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Lewis Elvin Patterson
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Eva Patterson Bracken
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Ethel May Patterson
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Ila Oldia Patterson Brown
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Florence Jane Patterson Judy
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Maurice Leewell Patterson
1895–1956
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Zola Ann Patterson
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Arel Stephen Patterson
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Clifford Ansel Patterson
1907–1968
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