Carl Logan

Carl B. Logan, age 94, went to be with his Lord and Savior on Thursday, April 24, 2008 from the Wichita County Long Term Care Unit in Leoti, Kansas. Carl was born November 5, 1913 in Mystic, Iowa, the third son of Cloy Clyde (Jack) and Daisy Roberts Logan. The family moved to a farm north of Modoc, Kansas in the winter of 1925. In Leoti he met and on February 17, 1934, he married the love of his life, Grace E. McClimans. They made their home in Leoti until her death on December 2, 2002. He was a loving and devoted father to their two daughters. Carl was a businessman. He owned and operated McClimans and Logan (coal, grain, feed and mill) and Logan Implement Company (Case farm machinery, Schaffer plows, Butler buildings, Bendix washing machines, Vornado air conditioners, Winchester guns and numerous other items). He was co-owner of Barr & Logan Oil and of a chain of Rexall Drug stores in Kansas City and Denver. In the 1940's he learned to fly and purchased a four seater, single engine Navion plane that help him attend to his various business ventures. After 35 years of selling Case machinery, he retired as an implement dealer in May of 1966. On October 2, 1968 he held a sale and closed his Leoti offices and elevators. In January of 1969 he wrote his first contract as an agent for Jayhawk Insurance Company. Later, he became a member of the Presidents cabinet in Ozark Insurance Company, the company that later purchased Jayhawk. Carl was involved in law enforcement. He served as undersheriff of Wichita County while Tudor McDermott served as Sheriff. He was a Special Agent of the National Intelligence Service. As a U.S. Deputy Marshall, he helped transfer prisoners between high security prisons (e.g., Alcatraz and Leavenworth) and for deportation from the United States (e.g., to New York Harbor). Carl loved American History. He listened to the stories told by older settlers and read extensively about the settlement of the American west. He sought out sites of old forts and battles. He restored old steam engines, plows, tractor and threshing machines. He was featured in a film, "When Steam Was King," for which J.I. Case filmed him plowing a field just north of Leoti with a restored Case steam engine and a ten bottom plow. He participated in the Steam Engine shows in Bird City and often drove one or more of his restored steam engines and tractors in the parades in Leoti. He traveled long distances to take pictures of trains pulled by steam engines that had once been a common sight and to take pictures of the round houses needed to turn them around. Carl enjoyed hunting. He hunted deer and elk in Colorado. He especially enjoyed hunting pheasants, geese and ducks with his sons-in-law, Bill Hetzler and Dennis Duell and taking his grandson, Lance, arrow head hunting. Carl and his wife, Grace, valued the close relationship they had with his nephew's family, Cloy & Leona Logan of Modoc, Kansas. They were especially grateful for all the work and support Cloy provided as their health declined. Carl made his profession of faith on Sunday, March 13, 1961. He joined the First Baptist Church in Leoti, Kansas and became an active member in it and in the Gideon's International until health restricted his involvement. One value that permeated his relationship with others was a "how can I help you" approach to each person with whom he interacted. He never met a stranger. Carl was preceded in death by his wife, Grace, his parents, four brothers (Wilford (Bill), Clyde, Lee & Billy) and two sisters-in-law (Adlie & Betty) and one son-in-law (Bill D. Hetzler). Survivors include daughter Maida June Hetzler of Troy, Ohio, daughter and son-in-law, Orpha & Dennis Duell of Wichita, Kansas. Grandchildren Denile Lance Hetzler of Florence, Colorado & Tracy Jill George of Troy, Ohio, Grandson-in-law Rob George of Troy, Ohio & great grandchildren Lorian & Logan George of Troy, Ohio. Funeral Services will be held at 2:00 p.m. Monday, April 28, 2008 at the First Baptist Church in Leoti, Kansas with the Reverend Kyle Evans officiating. Burial will be in Leoti Cemetery in Leoti, Kansas. Friends may call from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Saturday and from 1:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Sunday at Price & Sons Funeral Home in Leoti, Kansas. Memorials may be given to the First Baptist Church or the Wichita County L.T.C.U. in care of the funeral home.