Extracted from The Kansas City Star (Kansas City, MO)
JOHN STEWART NEWLIN
John Stewart Newlin, 88, died Monday, January 3, 2000, at Tucson, AZ. Services will be 11 a.m. Monday, at Day Funeral Home, Wellington, KS; burial in Prairie Lawn Cemetery. Friends may call 7-9 p.m. Sunday, at the funeral home. Memorial contributions may be made to Shattuck School, P.O. Box 218, Faribault, MN, 55201; Beta Theta Pi, 1425 Tennessee, Lawrence, KS, 66044; or Seminole nation Museum, Wewoka, OK, 74884.
Mr. Newlin was born October 29, 1911, in Wichita to Elmina (Stewart)
and Harvey Earl Newlin. He attended Southwest High School in Kansas City and Shattuck School in Faribault, MN. After three years at the University of Kansas he traveled in Europe, graduating from K.U. in 1958, the same year as his son. He pursued a career in journalism and politics. He worked for newspapers in Arkansas City and Shawnee, OK, before going to New York City to write freelance. He then was managing editor of the Garden City Telegram. After working with the Associated Press in Kansas City, he became head of the A.P. in Topeka.
He was appointed public relations director of the Kansas Highway Commission by Governor Frank Carlson.
In 1950 he served as executive secretary to Kansas Governor Arn, and in 1952 as Publicity Director for People for Eisenhower in Washington D.C. After Eisenhower consented to run, Mr. Newlin became assistant to the campaign's press secretary, James Hageerty. Mr. Newlin declined an offer to become assistant to White House Press Secretary Hagerty, choosing to return to Kansas. He was then editor and publisher of the Wellington Daily News. He was President of the Kansas Press Association, receiving their Distinguished Service Award. He was a Kansas delegate to a Republican convention.
In the early 1960's he served as a consultant to the Presidential Commission on U.S. Government Security. After selling the Wellington newspaper, he taught journalism courses and wrote public relations material for the Endowment Association at K.U. for several years before establishing a farm outside Lawrence, raising Arabian horses and Angus cattle. Most recently, he resided in Ottawa, KS, before moving to Arizona.
Mr. Newlin was preceded in death by wives Nan Sizemore Newlin, Margaret Halloran Newlin, and Dorothy Miller Newlin; a brother, Donald E. Newlin; a stepsister, Mary Kay Fothergill; a stepbrother, Houston Frith; and an infant son, Bruce Edward. He is survived by a daughter, Donna Wager, Antioch, CA; a son, John Harve Newlin, Ottawa, KS; two stepsons, Mark Miller, Bisbee, AR, and Robert Miller, Duncan, OK; a sister, Nancy Newlin Ashton; and a brother, Richard F. Newlin, both of Shawnee Mission, KS; seven grandchildren; two stepgrandchildren, and 14 great-grandchildren.
(Arrangements: Day Funeral Home, 877-326-6100)
Saturday, January 8, 2000