Individual Details
Kenneth Arden LIGHTER
(25 Jan 1901 - 18 Jan 1957)
Events
| Birth | 25 Jan 1901 | Kansas, United States |  | ||
| Residence | 1 Jun 1905 | as a 4 year old male who was listed as Kenneth A. Lighter - Dodge City, Ford, Kansas, United States | | ||
| Residence | 24 Dec 1908 | presented a recitation during the Christmas Eve program at the M.E. Church - Dodge City, Ford, Kansas, United States | | ||
| Residence | 1 Jul 1909 | Dodge City, Ford, Kansas, United States | | ||
| Residence | 28 Apr 1910 | a 9 year old male born Kansas and was listed as Kenneth Lighter - Third Ward, Dodge City, Ford, Kansas, United States | | ||
| Residence | Jul 1915 | as a 14 year old male who was listed as Kenneth A Lighter - Dodge City, Ford, Kansas, United States | | ||
| Education | 1916 | Dodge City High School, Dodge City, Ford, Kansas, United States |  | | |
| Education | 1918 | a member of the class of 1918 - Dodge City High School, Dodge City, Ford, Kansas, United States | | ||
| Residence | 7 Jan 1920 | a 19 year old son of head of household born KS and was listed as Kenneth Lighter - Rolla Township, Phelps, Missouri, United States | | ||
| Marriage | 8 Sep 1937 | Slater, Story, Iowa, United States - Ferne Ellen GOUGHNOUR | | ||
| Land-Purch | 30 Sep 1937 | Log 7, block 47, Dodge City, Ford, Kansas, United States | | ||
| Residence | 6 Apr 1940 | a 39 year old male born in Kansas who was employed as a mechanic and was listed as Kenneth Lighter - 6409 Forrest Avenue, Northwest Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa | | ||
| Residence | 13 Dec 1945 | Sioux Falls, Minnehaha, South Dakota, United States | | ||
| Land-Sold | 8 Jan 1946 | Ford, Ford, Kansas, United States | | | |
| Residence | 1954 | Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana, United States | | ||
| Death | 18 Jan 1957 | Huntertown, Allen, Indiana, United States | | ||
| Burial | Greenlawn Memorial Park, Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana, United States | | |||
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Families
| Spouse | Ferne Ellen GOUGHNOUR (1902 - 1980) |
| Father | Alvin Hamilton LIGHTER (1864 - 1942) |
| Mother | Lida A CRAWFORD (1871 - 1945) |
| Sibling | Ethel Anita LIGHTER (1898 - 1980) |
| Sibling | Oren Wesley LIGHTER (1900 - 1900) |
| Sibling | _____ LIGHTER (1903 - 1903) |
| Sibling | Anne Marie LIGHTER (1904 - 1994) |
| Sibling | Dorothy Alice LIGHTER (1906 - 1975) |
| Sibling | Chester Ellis LIGHTER (1908 - 1969) |
| Sibling | Vera Elma LIGHTER (1911 - 1997) |
Notes
Education
Kenneth Lighter was a sophomore at Dodge City High School in 1916.Land-Sold
and Ferne Lighter, his wife signed a quit claim deed to Nelson G. Crawford and Cora B. Crawford his wife for $1.00Note
RESIDENCE-RELATIONSHIP: resided in Des Moines (May 1994); information obtained from Marcheta Beggs, Ensign, Kansas.Endnotes
1. 1910 U.S. Census Soundex for Kansas (: U.S. Government, 1910), L236 Kansas Soundex in household of Alvin H. Lighter.2
2. Indiana, Indiana, Death Certificates, 1899-2011, Kenneth Arden Lighter, 18 Jun 1957; database with images, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : viewed online April 2017).
3. 1905 Kansas State Census, Ford County, Kansas, Kansas State Census, Dodge City, Ford County, Kansas, page 1, dwelling 1, A. H. Lighter; digital image, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : viewed online November 2016); Kansas State Historical Society.
4. "Program," The Globe-Republican (Dodge City, Kansas), 24 December 1908; digital image, Chronicling America (chroniclingamerica.loc.gov : viewed online April 2017); MyHeritage.
5. "Christmas at the Churches," The Globe-Republican (Dodge City, Kansas), 31 December 1908; digital image, Chronicling America (chroniclingamerica.loc.gov : viewed online April 2017); MyHeritage.
6. "Childrens Day: Special Program Given by the Sunday School of the Methodist Church Las Sunday," The Globe-Republican (Dodge City, Kansas), 1 July 1909; digital image, Chronicling America (chroniclingamerica.loc.gov : viewed thru MyHeritage April 2017).
7. 1910 U.S. Census, Ford County, Kansas, population schedule, Ward 3, Dodge City, Ford County, Kansas, ED 46, Sheet 9A, household 6, Alvin H Lighter; digital image, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : viewed online April 2017); NARA microfilm publication T624.
8. 1915 Kansas State Census, Ford County, Kansas, population schedule, Dodge City, Ford County, Kansas, page 2, line 5, Lighter, A. H.; digital image, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : viewed online April 2017); Kansas State Historical Society.
9. United States, School Yearbooks, 1900-1999, Kenneth Lighter, 1916; Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : viewed online January 2018).
10. United States, School Yearbooks, 1900-1999, Kenneth Lighter, 1920; Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : viewed online January 2018).
11. 1920 U.S. Census, Phelps County, Missouri, population scheudle, Rolla Township, Phelps County, Missouri, ED 74, Sheet 3A, household 51, Alvin H. Lighter; digital image, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : viewed online March 2017); NARA microfilm publication T625.
12. Ford County Kansas, , ; ; Register of Deeds, Dodge City Kansas.
13. Marriage Records, 1880-1951, Kenneth A. Lighter, 8 Sep 1937; database on-line, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : viewed online November 2016).
14. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 database, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/7836/). Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 : accessed .
15. Ford County Kansas, , Book 68 p. 303; Quit Claim Deed. Judson F. Crawford et. al. to Nelson G. Crawford and Kenneth Lighter, 30 September 1937; Register of Deeds, Dodge City Kansas.
16. 1940 U.S. Census, Polk County, Iowa, Walnut Township, Polk County, Ioa, ED 77-39, sheet 19-B, household 6409, Kenneth Lighter; digital images, (: viewed online April 2017).
17. Dodge City Daily Globe, , "Long TIme Resident Dies" Thursday, Dec. 13, 1945, page 9, col. 3 (Doc. #: Crawford.KS.053).
18. Ford County Kansas, , ; ; Register of Deeds, Dodge City Kansas.
19. Polk's Fort Wayne City Directory 1954 (Cincinnati, Ohio: R. L. Polk & Co., Publishers, 1954), p. 515, Kenneth Lighter; digital image, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : viewed online April 2017).
20. Find a Grave, database and images, Find a Grave (www.findagrave.com : viewed online April 2017), memorial for Kenneth Arden Lighter (1901-1957), Find a Grave Memorial no. #158316159, created by MJ, citing Greenlawn Memorial Park, Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana; accompanying photograph by MJ, Kenneth Arden Lighter.
21. Indiana, Indiana, Death Certificates, 1899-2011, Kenneth Arden Lighter, 18 Jun 1957; database with images, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : viewed online April 2017).
22. Find a Grave, database and images, Find a Grave (www.findagrave.com : viewed online April 2017), memorial for Kenneth Arden Lighter (1901-1957), Find a Grave Memorial no. #158316159, created by MJ, citing Greenlawn Memorial Park, Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana; accompanying photograph by MJ, Kenneth Arden Lighter.