Lance Carlson

Obituaries

June 27, 2014 - 12:00 AM

Lance Eric Carlson, 63, rural Stark, died Thursday, June 26, 2014, at his home, following several years of battling amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

He was born Dec. 7, 1950, in Stark, to Arthur B. and Elsie J. (Bass) Carlson. He grew up in Stark and graduated from Marmaton Valley High School in Moran. He graduated from Neosho Community College at Chanute and earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Emporia State University.

He taught two years at Williamsburg and then returned to Stark to farm. In 1976, he began teaching social science and psychology at Humboldt High School. He also taught those subjects part time at Allen Community College. He retired from teaching in 2009.

Lance was a lifelong member of the Friends Church at Stark and of the Kansas National Education Association. He loved slow-pitch softball and in 2007 played with the K.C. Thunder team that won the national championship.

On Nov. 1, 1975, he married Debra Daniel in Ottawa.

Survivors include his wife, Debra Carlson; son L. Eric Carlson, Jr., and his wife, Tawna, Stark; two daughters, Christa Carlson-Sandate, and her husband, Mike, Kansas City, Kan., and Karna Carlson, Chanute; three grandchildren and another expected grandchild; two brothers, Charles Carlson, Savonburg, and Arthur David Carlson, Savonburg; two sisters: Alvina Ungles, Stark, and Arthena Massoth, Leavenworth. He was preceded in death by his parents and niece, Christina Kress.

Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, at the Grant Community Center in Stark. Burial will be in Mount Moriah Cemetery. The family will receive friends at the Pierce-Carson-Wall Funeral Home in Erie from 6:30 to 8 p.m., Tuesday. Memorials are suggested to the Lance Carlson Memorial Scholarship at Humboldt High School. They may be left at or sent to the funeral home at Box 182, Erie, KS 66733. Online condolences may be left at www.wallfuneralservices.com

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