Fargo Cemetery
aka Fairmount

Fargo, Ellis County, OK

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February 3, 2021
Submitted by: Jo Aguirre

Floyd Leroy Thomas

November 23, 1936 ~ January 26, 2021

Floyd Leroy Thomas, 85, of Kiowa, Kansas, died January 26, 2021, surrounded by family.

He was born the youngest of nine children on November 23, 1936, in Fargo, Oklahoma, the son of the late Harvey Edward Thomas and Phillipine Florence Arnold. Floyd attended the local country school in Fargo and was put to work on the farm at a young age. Later, he moved to Hazelton, Kansas, and lived with his sister. It was there he met Wanda Lou Hill, his wife of 63 years.

Floyd worked for Coontz Implement in Kiowa as a hay equipment mechanic for many years. Floyd and Wanda adopted Debbie Kaye and Susan Diane before moving to Cherokee, Oklahoma, where they established their family. Floyd worked for New Holland and eventually started his own Hesston Dealership. For his retirement, Floyd and Wanda moved to Corwin, Kansas, and raised cattle on their farm as he continued to work on hay equipment. He was an avid outdoorsman who enjoyed hunting and fishing.

He is survived by his wife Wanda, daughter and son-in-law Debbie and Steven Leech (of Kiowa, Kansas), grandchildren Kori and Jose Salinas and great-grandson Gabriel (of Kiowa, Kansas), daughter and son-in-law Diane and Waren Gross (of Amarillo, Texas), and sisters Cleo Jahay (of Carl Junction, Missouri) and Faye Ella Woods (of Woodward).

Floyd was preceded in death by his parents, five brothers and one sister.

Services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, February 4, 2021, at the Grace Bible Fellowship Church in Kiowa, Kansas. Memorials may be made to the Kiowa District Manor activity department.

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