Obituary

Delton Spencer Yohe, 88, Villa Park, California, died Monday, June 2, 2014, at University of California Irvine Medical Center, Orange, California.

He was born March 18, 1926, in Elwood, Indiana, the son of Azel Alexander and Helen Graham Yohe. He was a graduate of Burrton High School and the University of Kansas, Lawrence, where he received a bachelor of science in business, bachelor of laws and a Juris Doctor.  He spent two stints in the Army, once during World War II and again during the Korean War.  He became a partner at Arthur Anderson & Company before retiring in 1981.  On Jan. 29, 1949, he married Betty Clair Foster in Halstead. She passed on June 28, 2010, in Villa Park, California.

Survivors include sons and daughter-in-laws, Tom and Nancy Yohe, Denver, Colorado, John Yohe, and Liz Storto, Phoenix, Arizona, and Rob and Madeline Yohe, Stilwell; sister and brother-in-law, Connie and Tom Logue, Burrton; brother and sister-in-law, David and Leana Yohe, Mulvane; sister-in-law, Virginia Yohe, Garland, Texas; and seven grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.

Viewing will be at 10 a.m. Monday, June 16, 2014, at Kaufman Funeral Home, Halstead. Procession to Burrton Cemetery will begin at 11 a.m. Graveside service will begin at 11:30 a.m.  Memorials may be given to the KU Endowment Association in the name of D. Spencer Yohe to the Yohe Family Memorial Fund, c/o KU Endowment, P.O. Box 928, Lawrence, KS 66044.