Anthony Dolbow
The Anthony Dolbow family moved to Isabel in 1912 from Warsaw, Missouri.
They lived on a farm one mile east and three miles north of Isabel. The
family consisted of six children: John, Orlean, Dorothy, Eunice, Harvey and
Tony.
John moved down soutwest of Sharon, and in the twenties, hauled cattle
from the area to the Wichita stockyards. He moved to southeast Colorado.
Orlean was stricken with polio at a young age and was cared for all her
life by Harvey. She is buried in the Isabel cemetery.
Dorothy married Ed Crittenden and moved to Yankton, South Dakota. Their
children were: Grace, Steven, Charles, Edna, and Boyd.
Eunice married Edd Callen January 29, 1914 in Isabel. Both are buried
in the Isabel cemetery. They had two sons: Donald Dewitt of Edmonds, Washington:
and Tony Verne of Wichita, Kansas. After Edd Callen passed away May 11, 1920,
Eunice bought a house in town and rented out rooms to school teachers. She
moved to Hutchinson, Kansas, for a short while about 1923, married Albert
Wimmer, then moved to Wichita and lived there for the rest of her life. They
had two sons: Melvin Wayne (deceased), and Kenneth Maynard, Wichita, Kansas.
Harvey, known by everybody as "Uncle Harvey", bought 240 acres two
miles south and four miles east of Isbabel about 1922 or 1923, where he
maintained a home for his mother, dad, and invalid sister. He sold his farm
at auction March 20, 1965, and moved to Denver, Colorado, where he passed
away January 20, 1967.
Tony married Nina Kilmer. Their three children are: Don, of Shell Knob,
Missouri; Ruth (Dolbow) Marsalis, of Wichita, Kansas; and Darrell, of Douglass,
Kansas.
Source: Isabel, Kansas - The First 100 Years, 1887 - 1987, pg. 68
Submitted by: Tony V. Callen