Pat Lonker (as he was clled by all who knew him) was born Feb. 23, 1901,
    to Ernest Theodore and Ocea Ola (Lawry) Lonker. He was the eldest of their
    3 children - others being Melvah and Audrice (Mrs. George Crosby). He
    attended Blue Ribbon School and graduated from Barber County High School
    where he excelled in track and football. Except for a short period of
    employment in a Wichita Falls, Texas Bank, he spent his entire life in
    Barber County.
       Marjorie, a twin, was born April 14, 1899, to John and Mary C. (Gibson)
    Luallen, pioneer residents of Medicine Lodge. Her twin sister, Margarett,
    died in infancy during a flue epidemic. Shortly before WWI it became
    fashionable for young ladies to "bob" their hair. Marjorie's father refused
    to allow her to cut the naturally curly brown hair. To gain her wish,
    Marjorie influenced her older sister Eulalia (Mrs. John Holser) to paint
    her hair with green house paint. Papa had no alternative choice but to
    allow the scissors to go into action.
       Pat and Marjorie were married July 17, 1921, at the home of her parents
    in Medicine Lodge. Mrs. Luallen was visiting friends in Colorado at the
    time and was informed of the ceremony via telegram. The bride and groom
    traveled by springboard to Lake City where Pat was the assistant cashier 
    of the Lake City Bank. On the way they stopped at the home of Pat's parents.
    E.T. and Ocea gave them 100 pounds of flour to help defray upcoming expenses.
    Later they moved to a ranch home approximatel 16 miles west of Medicine 
    Lodge where Pat joined his brother Melv in the cattle business. A favorite
    ranch story told by Marjorie began during a snowbound winter. Cooking supplies
    were low - no flour, no sugar - but the boys' refused to make the journey
    to town due to weather conditions. ONe blustery morning, they announced they
    were going to make the trip. Questioned as to their motive during such
    hazardoius conditions, they replied that their tabacco supply had hit bottom.
       Pat continued his career in banking as cashier at the Home State Bank in
    Medicine Lodge which was one of many that closed during the depression years.
    He then ventured into the auto loan business with Security Investment Company 
    and later formed his insurance agency which he opereated until his sudden 
    death by a heart attack at age 66 on October 6, 1967, while attending a high
    school football game at Harper, Kansas.
       Marjorie and Pat purchased their family home at 410 N. Main during the
    early '30's from Carrie (Gibson) Patton, Marjorie's aunt. Carrie, as a
    communikty midwife had delivered many Medicine Lodge babies in this house. 
    Margarett Carolyn, thier only child, knew no other home until her marriage
    to Raymond A. Hough.
       Both Pat and Marjorie were active members of the Methodist Church from
    a very early age. Pat believed in and supported community progress and was
    an early supporter of the STOCKADE, Bar County State Lake, Peace Treaty
    Pageant (in which he drove the 4-horse stage coach) and other projects. He
    knew no enemies and everyone who knew him respected this small, quiet,
    gentle man.
       In 1972, 5 years after Pat's death, Marjorie moved to Leavenworth, Kansas
    to live with her daughter Margarett Carolyn and family. Shortly after she
    suffered a broken hip and was thereafter confined to a wheelchair. She spent
    6 months in a convalescent home in Roswell, New Mexico, near her daughter
    (who resided in Ruidoso) prior to her death of natural causes at the age
    of 76, on June 1, 1975.
    
                
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 282 
     Submitted by: Margaret Carolyn Hough