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Note: although the cemetery is on private property, it can be seen around this site. There is a walking path leading up the nearby hill to the fenced cemetery.
Curtis Family Cemetery (Courtesy Washburn University)
Curtis’s parents, Oren Arms and Helen Pappan Curtis, and paternal grandparents, William and Permelia Curtis, are buried here along with other family members. The cemetery is private property and may only be viewed from outside the fence.
Captain Jack Uniform (Courtesy KSHS)
“Grandmother Curtis ruled the family. So strong in mind and body, yet so gentle, she brooked no opposition. Not that any of us wished to oppose her; if we strayed momentarily, by accident or inadvertence, from the fold of her orthodoxy, she needed only to remind us of our allegiance, which lasted to her death at the age of ninety-six years and has continued in memory to this day. And we loved her as much as we admired her Spartan character. She was a Methodist. She was a Republican. I think she regarded being both a Methodist and a Republican as essential to anyone who expected to go the heaven.”
- Permelia “Dolly” Curtis Gann