Leroy Davenport

FRANKFORT - Leroy Davenport, 55, died Sunday, Jan. 11, 2004, at his home in Frankfort, from complications of prostrate cancer. Leroy Eugene Davenport was born Dec. 29, 1948, in Emporia, to Bertram and Hazel Roberta Anstaett Davenport of Osage City. Mr. Davenport was raised on a farm east of Osage City and graduated from Osage City High School in 1967. He played basketball at Allen County Community College in Iola. He then attended Southwestern College in Winfield, where he lettered in basketball and in football as a linebacker. He received a B.S. in business administration from Southwestern in 1971. He married Joyce Fox in Frankfort on Sept. 14, 1974. She survives, of the home. Other survivors include two sons, Travis Lee Davenport, Austin, Texas, and Mitchell Ryan Davenport, Lenexa; a daughter, Elise Marie Davenport, Manhattan; a brother, Robert Davenport, Emporia; and three sisters, Donna Spicer, Wakarusa, DeeAnn Woodson, Overbrook, and Linda Spielman, Manhattan. M r. Davenport was assistant manager of Osage Grain in the early 1970s and then on the management team at General Foods in Topeka until 1979. He and his wife then moved to Frankfort and in 1980 bought her father's lumber yard, which they operated as Davenport Lumber until 2002. He had served as a regional manager for Southwestern Association in Fort Worth, Texas, until earlier this year. He especially enjoyed coaching youth and American Legion baseball in Frankfort.He was a member of Annunciation Catholic Church in Frankfort. He was a member of the Frankfort Rotary Club and received the Paul Harris Fellowship Award. He also was previously a member of the Frankfort Jaycees, served on the Frankfort Community Care Home Board and the FHS Powell Committee. He was a volunteer with the Frankfort Ambulance Service and a member and past chairman of the Kansas Lumberman's Association and the Mid-America Lumbermen's Association. Funeral services will be Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. at Annunciatio n Catholic Church in Frankfort. A Wake service will be Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the church. Visitation will be Tuesday from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. at Padden Funeral Chapel in Frankfort and one hour before service time at the church. Burial will be in Mount Calvary Cemetery in Frankfort. Memorials will be designated at a later time and may be sent in care of Padden Funeral Chapel, Frankfort, Kan.