Floyd Gerald Banwart
Floyd Gerald Banwart, 89, recently of Fort Scott, Kan., formerly of Phoenix, Ariz., died Sept. 25, 2014, at Medicalodge in Fort Scott. He was born Dec. 26, 1924, in West Bend, Iowa. He entered the army on Dec. 7, 1944, and served during World War II in the Pacific theater. During the war he contracted malaria and was sent to the Bushnell General Hospital in Brigham City, Utah, for treatment. After discharge, he returned to Iowa where he farmed with his brother Glenn in Pulaski. He was baptized in the Apostolic Christian Church in July, 1948. In the early 1950s, he moved to Phoenix, where he met and married Clara M. Lemons (nee Herbst) and became stepfather to Clara's three children. He worked as a carpenter in Phoenix until he retired in 1983. During retirement he lived in Phoenix and Tucson, Ariz., until he moved to Fort Scott in 2010.