Boyd Marvin Landes...... Age 97

Cremation
Graveside Service 11:30 AM, Saturday, March 4, 2017 Osawatomie Cemetery

Celebration of Life Dinner 1-3 PM Saturday, March 4, 2017 at Little Town Event Center (formerly Molly's Table) Paola, Kansas

Memorial: Cadmus Grange Dance or the American Heart Association
Send c/o Eddy-Birchard Funeral Home
P.O. Box 430
Osawatomie, KS 66064

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Boyd Marvin Landes age 97 of Osawatomie, KS died Tuesday January 10, 2017.

Boyd was born September 22, 1919 on a farm in Davis County, MO. He was the sixth of seven children born to Art Leo and Della Ernestine (Sloan) Landes. He grew up and attended school in Winston, Missouri. He graduated with the Winston Class of 1938.

After high school, Boyd worked in a body shop in Gallatin, MO. Then moved to Kansas City and started working in a mattress factory. There he met Faye LaVaugh Woodin. They were married July 25, 1942 in Harrisonville, MO. The couple made their home in the Miami County area. Boyd started working for Peuser’s Automotive in Paola for eight years or so as a body man. Then went to work across the street for Clemens and Green as a delivery driver. After 10 years, Boyd went to work at the Osawatomie State Hospital. He started in the maintenance department and transferred to the occupational therapy department where he was a tech.

In 1981, Boyd retired from the Osawatomie State Hospital. He and LaVaughn traveled. They would spend time at their Florida home and take their grandchildren on vacations. When they weren’t traveling they were at their farm in Hillsdale, Kansas. LaVaugh died in 1991 after almost 50 years of marriage.

Boyd started going to Cadmus Grange to the Dances they have every Friday and that is where he met Virginia Hardesty. The couple married in 1997. They lived in Osawatomie during the spring, summer and fall months. They would go to Courtside, Arizona to visit for the winter. Until 2010, when Virginia died.

Cadmus grange continued to occupy Boyd’s time. He played the guitar in the band. He couldn’t sing so he was the joke teller. He loved to dance. He could make anything! He enjoyed old cowboy movies, blue grass music woodworking. Boyd had a great memory and loved to tell stories. While living in Gallatin, MO he became a Mason.

He is preceded in death by both wives LaVaughn & Virginia, his parents and six siblings.

Survivors include son Gary Landes of Hillsdale, KS, daughter Gale (Bob) Price of Osawatomie, KS, four grandchildren and nine great grandchildren. Along with other family and friends.