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Gary Lee Wingard © Enid News and Eagle 05-15-2015 Submitted by: Glenn
Gary Lee Wingard, 76, of Colby, died Monday, May 11, 2015.
He was born Oct 16, 1938, to Claude and Ethel (Starts) Wingard in Independence, Kan. In 1956, Gary graduated High School in Guyman, Okla., and attended Northwestern Oklahoma State University from 1956-1960. He then attended graduate school at Wichita State University for speech pathology from 1961-1962 and the University of Oklahoma for speech pathology and audiology from 1962-1964. In 1975, he completed his masters and specialists degree at Fort Hays State University. He married Yvonne Mack on June 30, 1962, at St. Joseph’s Church in Bison, Okla. Gary worked as an outreach speech pathologist with WSU before starting the first speech and hearing center west of Hays, Kan. In 1975, he started working for USD 315 and then in 1985 transferred to the Northwest Kansas Educational Service Center before returning to USD 315 in 1995. Gary also had a private practice that allowed him to provide speech rehabilitation through St. Thomas Hospital/Citizens Medical Center for adult patients, mostly brain injury patients.
Gary was a member of the Kansas Speech Language Hearing Association, a lifetime member of both the Kansas National Education Association and the American Speech Hearing Association and earned a certificate of clinical competency. He was an active member of Sacred Heart Catholic Church and had served time as a eucharistic minister, lector and doing hospitality and on the Sacred Heart School Council, parish council and finance council. He was a third-degree member of the Knights of Columbus and was part of the bowling team. Gary was a conservationist and enjoyed wildlife, hunting and outdoor activities. He also enjoyed all sports and competition, golfing and having coffee with the guys at COOP. He loved having a “full house,” and this included hosting foreign exchange students.
He is preceded in death by his parents.
He is survived by his wife Yvonne, of the home; five children, Melissa (Douglas Jr.) Bentley, of Palm Coast, Fla., Melinda (William Hulse) Wingard, of Evergreen, Colo., Michael (Annette) Wingard, of McAllen, Texas, Mark (Randy Parks) Wingard, of Kansas City, Mo., and Monica (Joe Schlut) Wingard, of Boulder, Colo.; two sisters, Teresa (John) Madden and Donna (Howard) Tuttle; three grandchildren, Douglas Bentley III, Katherine Bentley and Wyatt Schlut and many nieces and nephews.
A prayer service will be 10:30 a.m. Monday, May 18, 2015, at Anderson-Burris Funeral home, Enid, Okla. Burial will Follow in the Bison Cemetery in Bison, Okla. Memorials are suggested to the Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Colby, Kan., Kansas Special Olympics or the City of Colby for Villa High Park Restoration in care of Baalmann Mortuary, PO Box 391, Colby KS 67701.
Online condolences: www.baalmannmortuary.com.
(Submitted by family)
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