Elmo Lund was born on April 27, 1930 at his parent’s farm home in Riley County, Kansas, near Green, Kansas. He died Thursday July 16, 2020 in Hays, KS. He attended a one-room country school for four years, after which the family moved to Green, Kansas, where he graduated from Green High School in 1948. He attended one year of college at The University of Kansas, and then taught school for two years prior to being drafting into the U.S. Army during the Korean Conflict.
During the Korean Conflict he spent one year at Ft. Leonard Wood, Missouri and one year in Korea, returning from Korea in May of 1953 at the rank of Staff Sergeant.
After his discharge from the U.S. Army he married Margaret Blad of Agenda, Kansas, and the two of them taught school for one year in Republic County, Kansas, prior to Elmo continuing his college education. In May, 1956 he graduated with a B.S. in Business Administration from Kansas State University in Manhattan. While at Kansas State University he was a member of Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society. He then went to Washburn University Law School in Topeka, Kansas, graduating there in January, 1959.
After graduation from Law School he joined the law firm of L.F. Cushenberry in Oberlin, Kansas, and practiced with Mr. Cushenberry until his retirement in 1972, after which he practiced law under the firm name of Lund Law Firm Chartered until his retirement in 2012.
While in Oberlin he was a member of the Oberlin Lions Club and of the Oberlin Legion Post #70, of which he was a past commander. He also served on the board of directors of the High Plains Mental Health Center for several years. He was a member of the Oberlin United Methodist Church and an associate member of the Hays United Methodist Church.
In the fall of 2000 Elmo and Margaret Lund moved to Hays, Kansas, where Margaret could receive additional physical therapy, but he still maintained his law practice in Oberlin, Kansas, on a part-time basis.
Born of this marriage were three children, David (Debra) Lund, Wichita, Kansas, Janell Shorman, Hays, Kansas and Robert Lund, Hays, Kansas. He also had four grandchildren, Michael Shorman, Mission, Kansas, Matthew Shorman, Hays, Kansas, Nicole Lund, Overland Park, Kansas and Jordan Lund, Wichita, Kansas.
Elmo contracted the Corona virus shortly before his death and family members were exposed. The family will schedule Celebration of his Life at a later date when it is safe for friends and family to gather. Memorials are to the Oberlin United Methodist Church or the Hays United Methodist Church in care of David Lund, P.O. Box 635, Wichita, KS 67201.