Larry Dean VanPelt, 74, of Emporia, Kansas, died on June 9, 2012 at St. Francis Hospital in Wichita, Kansas. Larry was born on August 20, 1937 in Wichita, the son of Harry M. and Vivian Faye Reynolds VanPelt. He married Janis Lovett on February 19, 1977 in Wichita.

Larry spent his working career involved in education. He graduated from Wichita West High School in Wichita in 1956. He received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Friends University and Emporia State University, and he completed work towards a Doctorate degree at Kansas State University. In the state of Kansas, he held many teaching assignments in the K-12 public school systems of Toronto, Kismet, and Wichita, where he primarily taught Industrial Arts and Driver’s Education. He also served as the Director of the State Driver’s Education program in Charleston, West Virginia. At the collegiate level, Larry taught classes in the Industrial Arts Program at Emporia State University. He also served as the Transportation Director for U.S.D. #253 in Emporia before he retired.

Larry was a supply sergeant in the Kansas National Guard. He was a longtime member of Friends University Church in Wichita. Camping trips and trout fishing expeditions in Colorado was something that he enjoyed, as well as creating many works of art and furniture from wood and metal materials, and collecting Indian artifacts.

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