Samuel W. “Woody” Ensor

Samuel W. "Woody" Ensor, 90, Shawnee, Kansas passed away Friday, January 8, 2010 at the Lakeside Hospital, Omaha, Nebraska.

Woody was a graduate of Maryland Art Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, June 3, 1941 and post-graduate, June 2, 1942. He married, the love of his life, Frances Leo on July 31, 1948. Woody worked as a graphic artist for Davis Paint Company, Baltimore, Maryland, Seidlitz/Colony Paint Company, Lenexa, Kansas and retired from Colony Paint Company in 1989, which later became Valspar. In 1974, Woody was a member of the Shawnee Civic Arts Commission, who designed the city seal for Shawnee, Kansas, something he was very proud and honored to do.

Woody was preceded in death by his wife, Frances Ensor; parents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel T. Ensor; and brother, Thurman Ensor. Survivors include his daughter, Deborah M. and her husband, John M. Kukula.; granddaughter, Maria A. Dorman and husband, Matthew; and great granddaughter, Isabella Frances Dorman, still in utero, due February 10, 2010 all of Omaha, Nebraska; grandson, Michael B. Kukula, St. Louis, Missouri; sister Josephine Gischel; and niece, Nancy Dold and her husband, Bob, York, Pennsylvania; sister-in-law, Victoria Carroll, Owings Mills, Maryland; grand- nephew, Bobby Dold, Hampstead, Maryland; grand-niece Tracy Dekker and family, Florida; and many, many friends living and deceased.

Visitation and Funeral Service

Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at the Amos Family Chapel of Shawnee, Kansas. Visitation will be from 6-8:00 p.m. Monday, January 11, 2010 and 9:30-10:30 a.m. Tuesday at the chapel.

Also a visitation will be 10-11 a.m. Thursday, January 14, 2010 followed by a funeral service at 11:00 a.m. at the Burgee-Henss Funeral Home, Baltimore, Maryland; burial in the Lorraine Park Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland.