This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Applegate, Christian Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/9684 Message Board Post: Rockdale Reporter, Thur., 29 June 2006 GEORGETOWN - Services for Kenneth Wayne Applegate, 61 of Jarrell, will be held at Heritage Baptist Church in Georgetown at 10 a.m. Friday, June 30, 2006. Pastor Don Ledbetter of Georgetown, Mark Nygard of Elgin, and Dwight Kelley of Rosebud will officiate. Mr. Applegate was born May 10, 1945 in Georgetown, and spent the next 17 years growing up in Bowie where he accepted Christ as his Savior at the Baptist Church. He graduated from Bowie High School in 1963, then moved to Liberty Hill and commuted to Austin to attend Nixon-Clay Business College. That same year, he became employed with Duncan Typewriter Co., where he spent the next 40 years of his life. He purchased the business in 1973. He was a lifelong rancher and also spent the past 15 years as the office manager for Milano Livestock Exchange in Milano. He served his country from 1964-1967 and served in Vietnam in the engineering battalion. He was a member of Heritage Baptist Church in Georgetown. Survivors include his wife of 38 years, Darlene, daughters Donna Marie Kaatz of Jarrell, and Rhonda Kaye Fisher, and husband, Wayne of Rockdale, and son David of Jarrell. Five grandchildren; Kayla and Tyler Kaatz and Mason Nusbaum of Jarrell, and Travis and Traci Fisher of Rockdale. Two brothers, Dee Applegate of Fort Worth, and Randall Applegate of Bowie, and one sister, Louise of Bowie. Numerous nieces and nephews, extended families and many friends also survive him. He never met a stranger and everybody he met became his friend. His mother, Mildred Christian Applegate and his father, NM Applegate, of Bowie, a sister, Lenora Kaiser of Graham and a brother, Sonny Applegate of Fort Worth, and a nephew, Randy Jones of Bowie, preceded him in death. Pallbearers will be grandsons, Travis Fisher and Tyler Kaatz, nephews Dwayne Brodnax of Irving, and Randy Dee Applegate of Fort Worth, friends, John Dooley of Granger, and Jeff Hage of Jarrell. Honorary Pallbearers will be son-in-law, Wayne Fisher of Rockdale, Ronnie Lastovica of Belton, Steven Lastovica of Salado, Kevin Nusbaum of Georgetown, Aaron Brown, Matthew Hage, Logan Perry and Buddy Williams of Jarrell, Sidney Garrison of Cameron, Tom Hensley of Liberty Hill, and Dale Applegate of Mayfield. Burial will be held at Land Cemetery at Jarrell. In lieu of flowers, the family wishes donations be made to the family to help in covering expenses. Donations may be made through Heritage Baptist Church.