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RONALD MAC DICKENS

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Graveside service: 3 p.m. Monday, Oct. 14, Barton County Cemetery, under the direction of Konantz Funeral Home, Lamar.

Memorials may be made to the Ron Dickens Agriculture Scholarship at Liberal R-II Schools.

Ronald Mac Dickens, 66, Liberal, was born Aug. 18, 1947, in Springfield, the son of Bruce and Jean Dickens. He died Oct. 10, 2013, after a long illness.

He was reared in the Fair Grove area and graduated from Fair Grove High School in 1965. He attended Southwest Missouri State University and graduated in 1969 with a degree in agriculture. He later returned to complete the teaching requirements for agricultural education, graduating in 1987.

Early in his life, he helped his father run a dairy farm, and later he had his own dairy and also became a real estate broker.

After moving his family to Liberal in 1987, he taught vocational agriculture at Liberal R-II Schools for 24 plus years. He earned recognition as Teacher of the Year and many other honors as an agricultural educator as well as moving through the ranks of VoAg Teachers in Missouri to finally become their state president. He was committed to his students and could be found most evenings and weekends working as the FFA advisor or working at school athletic programs.

He loved sports and was a successful junior high girls’ basketball coach as well as a successful high school girls’ softball coach at Liberal Schools for over 20 years. He was also a baseball and softball umpire and basketball referee for 20 years. He was able to help some of his students travel to Europe as well as his taking them on many leadership trips to Washington, D.C, and other places in the U.S. He loved his work and was loved by his students and fellow teachers. He was a member of the Fair Grove Baptist Church.

Survivors include his wife, Denise; his children: Marty and Teresa Dickens, Fair Grove, Terri and John Brown, Willard, April Edwards, Liberal, Jeff and Loa Bowne, Independence, and Dr. David Bowne, Phoenix, Ariz.; 15 grandchildren; 1 great-granddaughter; his mother, Jean Dickens, Springfield; and two sisters: Pat German, Springfield, and Kathy and Ron Wilken, Preston.


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