1935
Duane
2006
Duane S. Stone
November 10, 1935 — January 11, 2006
Duane Snyder Stone, 70, passed away Wednesday January 11, 2006. A Celebration Service of His Life will be held today, Sunday, January 15, 11:00 AM at the Community of Christ Church, 3500 South Webb Road. Visitation will follow from 2:00 to 4:00 PM at the Watson Funeral Home, 3201 South Webb Road. Funeral services will be 10:30 AM Monday, January 16, at Community of Christ Church, 1650 South Water Street. Burial service will follow in Reflection Pointe Cemetery with full military honors.
Duane’s family included his wife Nancy Stone, two children, Patti Spencer and Chris D. Stone, MD, 9 grandchildren and 5 great grandchildren, brothers, Don Snyder and Kenneth Snyder, a sister Ruth Ann Knouf.
He graduated from Wichita East High School 1953, Graceland College with an AA in 1955, San Jose State University BS in teaching and later with MS in psychology/counseling, Wichita State University Ed.S. in school psychology.
His career in the Air Force spanned 20 years from 1963 to 1983. He served a year in Viet Nam, achieving the rank of Major. Was in the military police, taught at Officer Training School (OTS) in Lackland AFB; ROTC recruiter at Memphis State University, and spent his last 10 years at Minot AFB, ND working in the mental health clinic. Among his many medals include the Silver Star, the Bronze Star, the Purple Heart, plus an additional medal given by the Republic of South Viet Nam.
He was active in his community with regular donation of blood products at the American Red Cross totaling more than 44 gallons. He volunteered counseling services to abused women and was a Reality Therapy counselor. The tragic events of September 11, 2001 led him to immediately reach out to the Islamic Community in Wichita. He donated and erected a flag pole and flags to the Islamic Worship Center. He then became intimately involved in their activities and attended services regularly.
He worked as a school psychologist for 2 decades in Wichita and Butler County school districts providing countless hours of educational services, home visits and met many additional individual needs going beyond his job description.
His hobbies included building a home in Minot, ND; endless home improvements, a general fix it specialist, and carpentry. He was a voracious reader and published writer, he attained his private pilots license and owned his own plane. He and his wife Nancy enjoyed traveling and exploring early American history, church history sites and became regular visitors to Branson, Mo which became a family joke. He was a religious scholar, amateur photographer and computer applications user. He was intensely involved with his church community as it was part of his personal being. He was a member of the Community of Christ Church (formerly known as Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints RLDS) since the early 1950s, attended the church college at Graceland College. He became an ordained minister while in San Jose, California and served in various positions for 4 decades.
He was a great and loving husband, father, grandfather, great grandfather, minister, teacher, psychologist, counselor, scholar, blood donor, traveler and friend and will be sorely missed. We will always love and remember you. A memorial has been established in his memory with the Duane S. Stone Memorial Fund, 3201 S. Webb Road, Wichita, KS 67211. An online guestbook may be signed at www.watsonfuneral.com
Duane’s family included his wife Nancy Stone, two children, Patti Spencer and Chris D. Stone, MD, 9 grandchildren and 5 great grandchildren, brothers, Don Snyder and Kenneth Snyder, a sister Ruth Ann Knouf.
He graduated from Wichita East High School 1953, Graceland College with an AA in 1955, San Jose State University BS in teaching and later with MS in psychology/counseling, Wichita State University Ed.S. in school psychology.
His career in the Air Force spanned 20 years from 1963 to 1983. He served a year in Viet Nam, achieving the rank of Major. Was in the military police, taught at Officer Training School (OTS) in Lackland AFB; ROTC recruiter at Memphis State University, and spent his last 10 years at Minot AFB, ND working in the mental health clinic. Among his many medals include the Silver Star, the Bronze Star, the Purple Heart, plus an additional medal given by the Republic of South Viet Nam.
He was active in his community with regular donation of blood products at the American Red Cross totaling more than 44 gallons. He volunteered counseling services to abused women and was a Reality Therapy counselor. The tragic events of September 11, 2001 led him to immediately reach out to the Islamic Community in Wichita. He donated and erected a flag pole and flags to the Islamic Worship Center. He then became intimately involved in their activities and attended services regularly.
He worked as a school psychologist for 2 decades in Wichita and Butler County school districts providing countless hours of educational services, home visits and met many additional individual needs going beyond his job description.
His hobbies included building a home in Minot, ND; endless home improvements, a general fix it specialist, and carpentry. He was a voracious reader and published writer, he attained his private pilots license and owned his own plane. He and his wife Nancy enjoyed traveling and exploring early American history, church history sites and became regular visitors to Branson, Mo which became a family joke. He was a religious scholar, amateur photographer and computer applications user. He was intensely involved with his church community as it was part of his personal being. He was a member of the Community of Christ Church (formerly known as Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints RLDS) since the early 1950s, attended the church college at Graceland College. He became an ordained minister while in San Jose, California and served in various positions for 4 decades.
He was a great and loving husband, father, grandfather, great grandfather, minister, teacher, psychologist, counselor, scholar, blood donor, traveler and friend and will be sorely missed. We will always love and remember you. A memorial has been established in his memory with the Duane S. Stone Memorial Fund, 3201 S. Webb Road, Wichita, KS 67211. An online guestbook may be signed at www.watsonfuneral.com
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