


The original ordinance is published for a minimum of one week on the City's website. This area contained the largest saloons and the red-light district. The popular gathering spot was Hyde Park, located south of the railroad tracks and west of Main Street. A s ummary of the adopted ordinance is published in the Newton Kansan. During this rowdy year as a Kansas cowtown, about 600,000 head of cattle were driven up the trail, and Newton became extremely rowdy.
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Thank God, I’m a country boy.As of July 1, 2012, HB 2166 allowing for an alternative to full publication of ordinances went into effect. “So I fiddle when I can, work when I should. Memorials may be made to First Baptist Church Newton, Kansas Burial will be in the Greenwood Cemetery Newton, Kansas Maat Petersen Funeral Home Chapel 215 North Main Newton, Kansas with Pastor Chip Bungard presiding. Lee was preceded in death by father Milton Pownell, mother Mary Clupny Pownell, brother John Pownell, father- and mother-in-law Otto Dalke and Wilma Welty Dalke, and brother-in-law Michael Dalke.įuneral service will be 2:00 p.m., Tuesday. Lee is survived by wife Barbara Dalke Pownell, of Newton, KS daughter Jessica Leigh (Camilo), of Tampa, FL daughter Katherine Michelle (Kartheek), of San Francisco, CA brother David (Helene), of Manhattan, KS sister-in-law Pamela (Victor) Garcia, of Newton, KS and sister-in-law Ruth Jacob of Halstead, KS. Lee and Barbara were blessed with two spunky daughters, Jessy and Katie, who traveled the world but would always take the dirt roads back home to see his newest additions to the garagestead. She agreed to one date, but Lee knew he had to double down (and he also knew there was no way he could show up to take Otto’s daughter out on a date on a motorcycle), and so he made sure to buy a brand-new Oldsmobile the next day.

Lee spotted Barbara in the moonlight, hard at work sweeping the lot at A&W Drive In, and he took a chance and asked her for a date. Lee had the good fortune to meet the beautiful Barbara his wife of more than 50 years while draggin’ Main Street in Newton in the 1960s. Lee also taught himself auto mechanics, much to the dismay of his daughters (as there was never an excuse to buy a new car). Using his ability to teach himself anything, Lee became an early computer programmer in the 1980s his computerprogramming career spanned for decades, and he worked at both Farmland Industries in Hutchinson, KS, and his alma mater, Wichita State University. Notwithstanding his enjoyment of the outdoors, as a young man, Lee had the vision to see that computers were the future. Lee looked forward to the Kansas autumn auction season every year, and, even if he bought a little too much, it was always astonishingly organized in the incredible double-decker garage that he designed himself. Lee enjoyed Kansas fall weather, the Kansas Jayhawks, the mountains in the West, chopping firewood, building or repairing anything, big red barns, wildlife (especially wolves), classic country music, Westerns, and especially his own (many) garages. 1880 First Harvey County Jail built in the 800 block of Main 1880 St. 2, 1872 First school opens in Newton in the Ringolsky Building 1873 First Bank of Newton established (now INTRUST Bank) Rail Town Years. Lee was a true-blue country boy who was blessed with a genius-level IQ and a stubborn but tenacious spirit. 22, 1872 The first issue of the Newton Kansan is printed by Henry C. (Luckily for his family, although he never did learn to ask for permission, he eventually learned to ask for forgiveness.) Lee went on to obtain an Associate of Science degree from Hutchinson Junior College in Hutchinson, KS, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Wichita State University in Wichita, KS.

Lee attended Halstead High School in Halstead, KS, but, like any good rebel, he made sure to get kicked out. Lee was born the first (and rowdiest) of three boys to Milton and Mary Pownell on August 10, 1948, at Halstead Hospital in Halstead, KS. Lee Pownell, 73, passed away peacefully surrounded by family and toe tappin’ to Johnny Cash on February 24, 2022, in Newton, KS.
