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Mark Marshall Hulse
1938-2017
Mark Marshall Hulse, 78, of Lawrence died August 17, 2017.
He was born September 11, 1938 in St. Louis, MO to Marcus Lafayette Hulse and Marjorie French Hulse.
Mark started the Electronics Instruments Laboratory at the University of Missouri and worked for the University for 42 years.
He had a passion for music that lasted most of his life and was actively touching people with his trombone and banjo playing Ragtime, Dixieland and Jazz for over 50 years. He also had a lifelong interest in operating ham radio.
Mark is survived by his wife Nora Hulse, brother John Hulse, Daughters Jane Morrison, Sue Nanninga, sons Bryan Hulse, Michael Hulse and Matthew Hulse and grandchildren Andrew Hulse, Shelby Politte, Jared Hulse and Benjamin Hulse.
A celebration of life for Mr. Hulse will be held from 3:00pm-5:00pm, Sunday, August 20, 2017 at the American Legion in Lawrence.
Food and drink will be served, the Junkyard Jazz band will be playing, and Pastor Paul Gray will officiate.
Friends and all American Legion Members are welcome.
The family suggests memorial contributions to the American Cancer Society, sent in care of Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home & Crematory, PO Box 1260, Lawrence, KS 66044.
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Clyde L. Bysom
Clyde Leon Bysom, 97, of Lawrence, passed away June 1, 2015 at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. He was comforted in his final days by family, friends, and hospital staff.
Clyde was born October 13, 1917, in Adrian, Mo., the youngest of four children of Walton and Edna Bysom. He married Pauline Moore in 1943, and they celebrated 69 years together before she passed away in 2012. Clyde is survived by daughter, Terri Bysom Stringer; three grandchildren, Chris Stringer, Stacy Stringer Walters and Brett Chalmers; and five great-grandchildren. In addition to his wife, Pauline, Clyde was preceded in death by sisters, Ethel Isbell and Iona Chapman; and brother, Ralph Bysom.
A graduate of Lawrence High School and lifelong student at the University of Kansas, Clyde was an accomplished musician and bandleader, playing saxophone, clarinet and various other instruments while composing and arranging music. He performed in his first concert in 1929 at age 12 in South Park’s gazebo with the Lawrence Boys’ Band. As a junior at Lawrence High School, he began to organize combos and dance bands to play at KU and local events. He joined the KU Band in 1936.
During World War II, Clyde enlisted in the Army Air Forces and served as a corporal and B-29 Superfortress tail gunner in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron (509th Composite Group) under the command of Colonel Paul Tibbets Jr., pilot of the Enola Gay. While stationed on Tinian island in the Northern Marianas, Clyde found time for music as a member of the 509th Jazz Band and 313th Bombardment Wing Twentieth Air Force Band. After the war, he moved to Wichita and then back to Lawrence for good in 1949.
Joining bands—50 different groups according to Clyde’s estimate—was his favorite pastime, becoming a charter member of the Lawrence City Band, KU Alumni Band, Olathe City Band and New Horizons Band. He spent decades playing with the Crimson and Blues Brothers Band, which evolved into the current Jazzhaus Big Band. Clyde also traveled with the River City Six and toured with Paul Gray’s popular Gaslight Gang. Junkyard Jazz, a band Clyde helped get off the ground with the late John Weatherwax and others in 1981, was inducted into the Kansas Music Hall of Fame in 2013.
To finance his passion for music, Clyde spent his early years working in manufacturing for the Westinghouse Jet Engine Division of Boeing Aircraft and General Motors. Later in his career he helped construct pipe organs for churches and concert halls at Reuter Organ Company, retiring after 25 years of service as supervisor of the console department. For more than 10 years into his late 80s, Clyde was an instrument repair technician at Hume Music.
In his last diary entry on May 15, Clyde wrote, “Ending my 85 years of blowing horns. I have had a great, long tenure though and am thankful for that.”