Obituaries

• Publication year: 2008
• Pages: 15
• Citation: Vol. 77 No. 6 Pg. 15

Obituaries No. 77 J. Kan. Bar Assn 6, 15 (2008) Kansas Bar Journal June, 2008

John E. Altenborg

John E. Altenborg, 89, died March 23 in Lindsborg. A lifetime Lindsborg resident, Altenborg was born Dec. 10, 1918, to John A. and Hilda Nelson Altenborg. He graduated from Bethany College, served three years in the Army during WWII, and earned the combat infantry badge for service in Europe. After the war, he graduated from Washburn University School of Law and practiced law for 55 years in Lindsborg. In 1998 he became a lifetime member of the Kansas Bar Association.

Survivors include sons, Terry, Boulder, Colo., and Jim, Lindsborg; daughter, Debra Maurer, San Diego; seven grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his wife, Betty Hopkins.

Edward Costello

Edward Costello, 85, Marion, a banker and lawyer, died April 2. He was born April 9, 1922, on a farm southwest of Tampa. He is the son of James and Anna Noone Costello.

He enrolled at the University of Wichita (WU) in 1941 and enlisted in the Army Reserve in 1942. He was called to active duty in 1943. Costello was commissioned to the U.S. Infantry as a second lieutenant in 1944 and was assigned to the 71st Infantry Division. He returned to the United States in 1946 and re-enrolled at WU. After college he enrolled at Washburn University School of Law and earned his juris doctorate in 1949. He began practicing law in Marion in 1949. In 1953, he took a position as managing officer of the Tampa State Bank, where he continued to practice law. Costello was appointed by Gov. John Carlin to the Kansas State Bank Commission, where he served six years, two-and-a-half years as chairman.

Costello was a lifetime member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, serving as commander of Post No. 6958 in 1951. He was also active in the American Legion, Tampa Lions Club, and Knights of Columbus. For more than 30 years he was a member of the Marion County, Central Kansas, and Kansas bar associations and the Kansas Bankers Association.

He is survived by his wife, Mary, Marion; two sons, Pat Costello, Moscow, Idaho, and Chris Costello, Marion; four daughters, Mickey Lundy, Marion, Cathleen McNamara, Teresa Perky, and Barbara Loehr, all of Overland Park; four sisters, Anna Bergkamp, Pretty Prairie, Rosemary Lewis, Wichita, Catherine Hajek, Tampa, and Florence Scanlan, Laguna Nigel, Calif.; and 17 grandchildren.

Walter J. Kennedy Jr.

Walter...